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Twitter Haz Cheezburger
I hear a strangle garbling noise as twitter eats yet another tweet. the does not follow you. Send FOLLOW THE to request. Oh, yes, that makes sense now.
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Roll Your Own Flickr Notes
For a long time I have continually raved about what I think is a severely under-used Cool Flickr Feature- the ability to add notes, or hypertext regions to images. For many long, winter nights, I have wondered.. Why Dont Teachers Jump All Over Such a Thing?, but alas, gave up on hearing an answer from […]
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You Had Me at Dog
I could barely ignore an appearance of a new site called Inside a Dog, a new site from Victoria, Australia aimed at promoting youth reading and interesting in writing and those lovely old fashioned portable content devices called “books”. But what a clever web theme (yes, I am biased)- that a program all the way […]
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The Web 2.0 Laundry List is Us/ing Me
I am in the one month scramble the jets mode to get ready for my Australian tour where I hope to avoid any street protesters nor tangle up anyone’s traffic with my motorcade. I had put some thought around how to do a Web 2.0 workshop that is not the typical ed-tech geek approach of […]
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Belated (B)log Day
Is anywhere in the world is it August 31? I have come up for air a day later.. Let’s see if I can come up with my five unusual, unheralded blogs. First is this tiny one originating from Monkton… just kidding. The Generator Blog collects all those sites that allow you to generate an image […]
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Gender Bending Bacn
Gender Bending in the Bacn posted 1 Sep ’07, 10.50am MDT PST on flickr Just got some fresh bacn in my inbox- seems like Quechup has some issues with gender
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What’s That Google Calender Doing in My MediaWiki?
Like Duvall’s Kilgore, who said “there’s nothing like napalm in the morning”, for a web geek, there’s nothing like a bit of curious fiddling with code to make something work. Today’s feat was finagling a MediaWiki extension to display a Google Calendar in our sites. I’ve been using GCal for a year to manage our […]
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Land Ho
I am now owner of a plot of land in Second Life, 4096 sq meters on a new sim called “Sciences”, one of the NMC Educational Communities (land that is parceled and rented to educational organizations). As of tonight I have spent extensive amount of time walking the green carpet and tossing out objects. Actually […]
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Zing! is in the Search Results
Pshaw to bloggers who cut off or dont harvest their comments! I got rich today! Thanks to Matt M who commented on my “Anyone Remember Podcasting” post, he pointed my to EveryZing– as search services that does keyword searches among audio and video content — and returns results that are linked directly to the segment […]
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Smell The Bacn
You know about email spam. You cannot avoid it, you cannot Can it, you cannot toss it though it is passed the expiration date, and you cannot even make a decent sandwich with it. But you know what this is, blog readers? That is my breakfast, yum, it is “Bacn”! Yes, the new hot meme […]