Archives for January, 2004
The link below is to some notes for a Weblog presentation to local college faculty…..
Jon Udell: Turning consumers into producers Pay close attention to the pivotal word “experience” — as in, for example, “the user experience.” It’s the clue to understanding why Steve Jobs and John Mayer onstage at Macworld, mixing tracks in GarageBand, have more to do with IT’s mission than you might think. The quality of experience [...]
Tuttle SVC Tom Hoffman has an interesting piece about Dave Winer’s “Share Your OPML!” campaign. In comparison, “Share Your OPML!” is simplistic, even by the standards of Dave’s earlier work, requiring users to manually export an OPML list from their aggregator and submit it to a central server. Only the subset of geeks who are [...]
Tuttle SVC Tom Hoffman comes up with the best line I’ve heard about the Bush Mars proposal… Of course once we get there, we’ll rename the Red Planet Believe me, I’m as pissed as the next guy that the dream of Space 1999 has been deferred, but the timing on this proposal seems all wrong.
Buzznet – timlauer Just signed up for Buzznet. It is one of those “post your images from your camera phone on the web…” services. Has a nice JavaScript that lets you syndicate your images. See below…
We have been out of school for three days now because of snow, ice, and freezing rain. Today everything is covered with a coat of ice. Hopefully the temperature is going to rise later today and start to melt this stuff… I took the bus out to my school last night to check on the [...]
Everything TypePad!: New Features Uploading a ZIP File to a Photo Album (Plus/Pro) You can now upload a zipped folder of images to your TypePad photo album. Somehow I missed this, but a very nice feature of Typepad. The ability to take a folder of images, apply .zip compression and then upload them directly to [...]
Chicago Tribune | Cops to patrol airports on high-tech scooters The Daley administration has signed a $128,000 contract to buy 28 Segway Human Transporters, and most of the machines will be in service at Midway and O’Hare, zooming down concourses and cruising around terminals with officers at the controls.
Mark/Space: · Missing Sync for hiptop Missing Sync for hiptop enables synchronization of iCal events and To Do’s list and Mac OS X Address Book contacts with the hiptop desktop interface and hiptop handheld (including the Sidekick). Share contacts, calendar events and to do items across multiple devices using iSync. Markspace already makes a version [...]
Tuttle SVC: January 04, 2004 Archives Tom lays out a wishlist for 2004 related to technology and education. One that stands out for me is his wish for thin clients.
Mars Exploration Rover Mission: Home The Mars Exploration Rover Mission Home is a good starting point for information on yesterday’s landing of Spirit on Mars.
Blogging and RSS Will’s article published in Multimedia & Internet@Schools is available online at the link above.
Opera’s Small-Screen Rendering(tm) The Opera web browser for Smartphones and PDA’s is really amazing. Just about any page I have pulled up on it looks good and is readable. Much more useful than the default browser that came with my Nokia 3650. The Windows version of the Opera browser has a very nice feature that [...]
Instant messaging, long a part of teenagers’ lives, is working its way into the broader fabric of the American family. [NY Times Technology]
NPR : NASA Poised to Land Rover on Mars Late Saturday night Eastern time, a spacecraft called Spirit is due to complete its 300-million-mile journey by landing at a site that scientists think was once a crater lake. They hope to find evidence that water once flowed on Mars, because where there was water there [...]
I moved my domain to TeacherHosting.com and it looks like things went well. Now I have this site and the Lewis Elementary site all running on Moveable Type 2.65 running MySQL. The process was pretty painless thanks to help of Paul Bradley. Now that I have all my sites running under one installation of MT, [...]
The wardriver and the cop Jon Udell has an interesting story about finding himself parked in front of a junior high school in Michigan and trying to explain to a police officer exactly what he was doing there…
Woke up to snow this morning. The most we have had in a long time. Still snowing as of this post.
MSNBC – A year of spam, spyware and worms A year of spam, spyware and worms Dark side of Internet boiled over in 2003. If my inbox is any indication, it looks like 2004 is getting off to a good start… Woke up to 6 virus/worm infested emails in my inbox. Looks like it is [...]
