Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
Virtualization is one of the hottest technology topics these days. Most people have probably heard about it in the context of Apple's switch to Intel processors and the release of Parallels Desktop for Mac. Parallels allows you to run Windows applications on an Intel Mac by starting up a full ...
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Monday, August 7th, 2006
What do you do when your technology isn't enough to set you apart? How about making questionable patent claims and suing your chief competitors? That seems to be Blackboard's new strategy.
In a nutshell, Blackboard has apparently received a broad patent that seems to cover almost all learning management system concepts ...
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Friday, July 28th, 2006
Seen on digg: Wikipedia has added a feature called "Cite This Article" to its site. The feature appears as a link in the Toolbox section of each page and provides key bibliographic information as well as citations pre-formatted in all of the major forms. Interestingly, they add the following note ...
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Friday, July 7th, 2006
I had a great time on Thursday afternoon recording an episode of my podcast in front of a live audience.
My first guest was Sonny Portacio, geocacher and Director of Technology for the Escondido Union High School District. Sonny has been doing a ton of work with geocaching lately. He's created ...
Posted in Blogging, Conferences, Emerging Technologies, Podcasting and iPod, Savvy Technologist Podcast | 4 Comments »
Friday, July 7th, 2006
I had a great time presenting at NECC on Wednesday. I captured the audio (albeit in a low-quality version) and attached my Keynote slides as an enhanced podcast. I'm also linking to a pure audio MP3 version in case your computer can't handle AAC-encoded media.
I posted the links for my ...
Posted in Blogging, Conferences, Podcasting and iPod, Savvy Technologist Podcast, Wikis | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, July 4th, 2006
Here are links to all of the sites I'll be mentioning in my talk at NECC on Wednesday (and even some ones I probably won't have time to mention). I'll post more once I'm done.
Blogging
Mabryonline.org with Dr. Tim Tyson
Lewis Elementary School (Principal Tim Lauer)
Google Maps mashups
Tour de France live updates
Gmaps ...
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Tuesday, May 30th, 2006
If you're a true Wikipedian or merely a fan of the world's largest encyclopedia, you'll want to have a listen to this week's episode of FLOSS Weekly with Chris DiBona and Leo Laporte. They interview Jimmy Wales, and he provides some interesting insights into the workings of Wikipedia. Good stuff ...
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Monday, May 15th, 2006
There's a battle royale brewing in the telecom world. Skype just announced that SkypeOut calls to U.S. and Canadian numbers will be free through the end of 2006. If you're unfamiliar with the concept, SkypeOut allows you to call a standard landline number from your computer using the Skype VoIP ...
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Monday, May 8th, 2006
Mark McCahill is from the University of Minnesota and is one of the architects of the Croquet Project, an open source peer-to-peer system for building virtual worlds like those found in World of Warcraft and Second Life. Those of you who've been around the Internet block a few times might ...
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Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
My old mobile phone was acting up so I picked up a new one a few days ago. The Samsung T809 is pretty cool on its own, but I've had the most fun playing with Google SMS. If you haven't ever tried text messaging, find a teenager somewhere and ask ...
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Friday, February 24th, 2006
I'll be sitting on the panel for a seminar at the U. of Minnesota in a few weeks discussing Web 2.0. I met recently with my co-panelists and we decided to put our money where our mouths are and use a wiki to organize our presentation and invite input in ...
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2006
We had a whole-district staff development day today and I had the chance to introduce about 35 teachers to Web 2.0 and some applications like Del.icio.us, Flickr (with an accompanying lesson on Creative Commons), Technorati, Bloglines, and Wikipedia. I was pleased with the results, and the experience reminded me of ...
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