Archives for March, 2005
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
Chris Lehmann of Beacon School in New York talks about their annual poetry festival, I Sing America, and how it is just one of the things that makes Beacon a special community. This sounds like a wonderful event. It would be fun to try something like this next year at Lewis.
if:book: hyperlinks in print ifBook discusses David Foster Wallace’s cover story about talk radio in the April issue of The Atlantic Monthly. The print version utilizes an interesting approach to footnotes and endnotes by including them along side the text. A screengrab of what this looks like in the print version is available on the [...]
FlickrBlog Holy smokes, SOMEBODY out there is bad at keeping secrets!! Yes! We can finally confirm that Yahoo has made a definitive agreement to acquire Flickr and us, Ludicorp. Smack the tattlers and pop the champagne corks! Well, guess we’ll see if this turn out to be a good thing or a bad thing soon [...]
Liz Lane Lawley is teaching a graduate course entitled Current Themes in Information Technology. It’s a distance learning course and she is using a course weblog to organize and present content and is having her students create weblogs where they post their assignments. She has subscribed to their RSS feeds so can easily see when [...]
Jeremy Zawodny’s blog 360 was not designed to be YASNS (Yet Another Social Networking Service). The goal is not to amass as many “friends” as possible, unlike Friendster, Orkut, and others. It’s about making it easier to share stuff with people who really are you friends–tne ones you already talk to, email, IM, etc. Jeremy [...]
Yahoo! 360° – What is Yahoo! 360°? Yahoo is soon to release Yahoo! 360, their photo sharing and blogging tool…
This past week I had the opportunity to travel to San Diego to attend and present at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology conference. Tom Hoffman and I presented a short talk entitled, From the Classroom: Remixing Wikis with Rendezvous, Web Services and SchoolTool. Chris Jablonski of ZD-Net has a nice summary of our talk. Tom did [...]
Guerilla room reorganization: “LiveJournaler rinku has some simple but effective advice on how to get your space in order. Make a big pile of stuff that isn’t where it belongs, and then tackle it. From that pile, everything that you don’t need and will likely never use in the next 4 years or so, throw [...]
Movies > Sy Wexler, Maker of Ubiquitous Classroom Films, Dies at 88″ href=”http://nytimes.com/2005/03/15/movies/15wexler.html”>The New York Times > Movies > Sy Wexler, Maker of Ubiquitous Classroom Films, Dies at 88 Sy Wexler, an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose educational movies – from “Squeak the Squirrel” to “Teeth Are for Life” – flickered for decades in darkened classrooms [...]
Libraries are an essential service, too | csmonitor.com William Ecenbarger writes in The Christian Science Monitor about libraries and their essential place in our society. But in fact, libraries are essential. Reading is still the most basic survival skill in today’s information-driven society. Moreover, the gap between rich and poor is widening, and the libraries [...]
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QOOP Web-based remote print and publish. This looks pretty interesting. I saw a link to this on Caterina Fake’s Flickr blog. Remote publishing of any digital file. Am thinking this might be interesting for school. We could create books and photo albums associated with school events and activities, and then make them available to familes [...]
Wired 13.03: The Book Stops Here Jimmy Wales wanted to build a free encyclopedia on the Internet. So he raised an army of amateurs and created the self-organizing, self-repairing, hyperaddictive library of the future called Wikipedia… Now Wales has brought forth a third model – call it One for All. Instead of one really smart [...]
