Marcus Campbell has released Scuttle, an open source bookmark manager (think del.icio.us, but hosted on your server), built on PHP and MySQL and released as open-source under the GPL.

I’m interested in this because I have been looking for a method for my 4th and 5th grade students to catalog and organize their web resources on the building network. While tools such as Furl and del.icio.us are interesting, the one thing that has held me back from using these with my students is the whole aspect of requiring them to register with a third party. By running a tool such as Scuttle (or the also recently released de.lirio.us) we can take advantage of a social bookmarking tool, but keep it on our local network.

Another interesting aspect of this is using a tool such as Scuttle with the Live Bookmarks feature of Firefox. Let’s say that some 4th grade students are researching a topic. Students could tag the resources they find with a predetermined tag, and then the RSS feed for that particular tag could be baked into a live bookmark on the Firefox toolbar. We are currently doing this with a few Furl and del.icio.us feeds set up by our teachers. Adding a tool like Scuttle allows our students to take part in the sharing of resources.

The Photon plugin for iPhoto allows you to easily upload images from iPhoto to Moveable Type weblogs…

Douglas Bowman of Stopdesign has a very good write up of how he utilizes this in his photo galleries.
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Spell with flickr
This site by allows you to create a word or phrase with letters pulled from Flickr…
#flickrWords .flickrImg { float: left; }

The New York Times: Need Talent to Exhibit in Museums? Not This Prankster
Over the last two weeks, a shadowy British graffiti artist who calls himself Banksy has hung his own humorous artworks in four New York institutions.

How much does a Banksy cost? His web site has a list of his current exhibits…
Slide Show from the New York Times…

Vibrant Cities Find One Thing Missing: Children: “As cities are remodeled to match the tastes of people living well, they are struggling to hold on to enough children.”

(Via New York Times.)

Today’s New York Times has an article that strikes home. It details the decrease in enrollment in Portland schools while at the same time the city thrives with new construction and gentrified neighborhoods. Through a series of demographic and budget issues, Portland will be cutting over 300 teaching positions. While the demographic issues discussed in the article are a contributing factor, the main problem is the level of funding for schools in Oregon stays flat or decreases. In addition a 5 year local operating levy expires this year, and the school board has decided not to ask for an extension at this time. The result is school closures and staffing cuts… Lewis Elementary will have to deal with a cut of roughly one and a quarter teachers…

Delicious Linkbacks
Alan Taylor has built a del.icio.us comments bookmarklet that allows you to get a look at what del.icio.us users are saying about (or at least how they are tagging) nearly any web page with one click.

(Via Anil Dash.)

Search Wikipedia — using LookAhead from SurfWax
WikiWax is quick type-ahead search for Wikipedia articles. Similar to using Google Suggest, but with Wikipedia…

Via Lifehacker