368 Posts from 2006

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Woah, Neo… FlickrStorm

Just be shear, dumb, web clicking serendipity, I came across flickrStorm: (now available as Wunderstock) FlickrStorm is a better search for Flickr! It works by looking for more than what you enter to find related and more relevant images… Be surprised! Okay, there are scads of flickr search tools, and it’s not exactly clear what […]

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Dim Screen of Near Death

flickr foto The Dim Screen of Deathavailable on flickr This is as bright as my MacBookPro gets– this has happened 3 different times, once while I was watching the screen. And not, the F1/F2 keys do not help. The only way I have found to resurrect it is to shut it down for a few […]

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Cleveland Rocked

flickr foto NMC Conference DVD is Hereavailable on flickr Cleveland Rocked! So did NMC at the 2006 Summer Conference, and rocks even more since this year each participant gets their own DVD… there are the keynotes, the amazing jam session at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, examples of digital stories from the workshops, […]

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Portals Redux

Long before “Web 2.0”, “social software”, the big web buzzword was “portals”— A portal, or enterprise information portal (EIP), is a Web site that integrates an organization’s knowledge base and all related applications into a single user-customizable environment. This environment acts as a one-stop shop, or “gateway,” for users’ information and system needs. So it […]

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MacBookProDoorStop

Sigh, back to the seven levels of technical hell. Nope, I have advanced beyond a code ID 10T. Just 10 minutes ago, I am talking on my telephone, watching the screen of my laptop, and it blinks/flashes twice, and the screen goes dim again, Crikie! I did a PMU reset, and on the start the […]

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Ideal Streaming Technology

flickr foto Searching for the Ideal Streaming Technology posteravailable on flickr Searching for the Ideal Streaming Technology poster as reprised on the NMC Campus in Second Life (July 2006), This was a study done in Spring 2006, and a number of NMC members had participated. Authors Dr. Edgar Huang and Clifford Marsiglio from IUPUI (Indiana […]

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Blogs Like Weeds

Despite my best intentions, I find myself with a small herd of WordPress blogs- this one, my running blog, and two more over at NMC (one is our Second Life site, the other is still under wraps, sorry). So today was upgrade day, making sure they were all brought up to the latest 2.04 version […]