Archives for April, 2008
Science Friday Archives: Michael Pollan – In Defense of Food Interview with Michale Pollan, author of In Defense of Food, and The Omnivore’s Dilemma: Searching for the Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World (tags: npr MichaelPollan books nutrition Media podcast food) OMNIVORACIOUS: Amazon’s books blog Michale Pollan’s posts, “Today’s food movement has many faces, some [...]
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus – Here Comes Everybody: Clay Shirky has a post up this morning that is a transcription of a speech he recently gave at the Web 2.0 conference. He discusses the social surplus that for the last 50 years has been consumed by television watching and is now being used by [...]
Coalition for a Livable Future’s Regional Equity Atlas “The Coalition for a Livable Future undertook the Regional Equity Atlas Project to advance equity – the right of every person to have access to opportunities necessary for satisfying essential needs and advancing their well-being…” (tags: maps economics poverty equityatlas) Timeframe Click-draggable. Range-makeable. A better calendar. (tags: [...]
Pew Internet: Writing, Technology and Teens “Teens write a lot, but they do not think of their emails, instant and text messages as writing. This disconnect matters because teens believe good writing is an essential skill for success and that more writing instruction at school would help them…” (tags: internet pew teens literacy)
Denial of service attacks (tags: politics web denial)
ISBN.nu: Find the best price for books online “This site provides price comparisons among over a dozen online stores that are either booksellers, auction sites, used book dealer networks, or a combination of two or three.” (tags: isbn.nu books bookstores leadersedge) TwittEarth :: Live Twitts all over the world A Twitter visualization. There are quite [...]
edazzle dot net – amazonbox Widget to genereate an Amazon list to your site… (tags: amazon wishlist amazonbox) New Statesman – How the rich starved the world biofuels (tags: sustainability policy food energy)
Dialog on Leadership: Ronald Heifetz Interview Adaptive Change: What’s Essential and What’s Expendable? (tags: heifetz change leadership) The Leader of the Future | Fast Company Harvard’s Ronald Heifetz offers a short course on the future of leadership. (tags: leadership future heifetz) Feature: Stitch Photos Into Panoramas with Free Software (tags: free photo panorama photography lifehacker [...]
Factor military duty into criticism — chicagotribune.com An article by Lawrence Korb and Ian Moss that compares the military service of Cheney, Bush and Clinton to Rev. Jeremiah Wright… (tags: wright politics) Jay Rosen: The Uncharted: From Off The Bus to Meet the Press – Off The Bus on The Huffington Post Jay Rosen looks [...]
It looks like this has been up since last summer, but today was the first I have heard of TagCrowd. TagCrowd is a web based tool that allows you to visualize word frequencies as a tag cloud. You can visualize web pages, text files, and contents of your clipboard and then embed the tag cloud [...]
Cabel Sasser is a software developer and one of the founders of Panic Software, the folks that make Transmit along with some other nice web development tools. Transmit is a great FTP utility for the Mac and a tool that I find myself using just about everyday. Cabel also does some other coding and his [...]
Zip Code Census Dashboard A Yahoo Maps mashup that allows you to display Census data by zip code and show the area on a Yahoo Map… (tags: census mashup mapping yahoo web2.0 demographics statistics)
I finally updated my WordPress install to 2.5 for this blog, and several of my school blogs. So far things are working well. I like the new interface. It is a lot lighter and cleaner. I also like the new Gallery feature for uploading images. An example of which you can see below.
DOTHETEST I brake for bears… (tags: advertising bicycle bikes safety video) Cellphones – Third World and Developing Nations – Poverty – Technology – New York Times Can the Cellphone Help End Global Poverty? (tags: mobile cellphone poverty development technology)
Google LatLong: All the news that’s fit to print on a map: The New York Times in Google Earth Geo-coded news from the New York Times on Google Earth… (tags: googleearth nytimes nyt news maps Geotagging) Tuttle SVC: Google App Engine and You Tom Hoffman give an overview of Google App Engine and how a [...]
Some Datasets Available on the Web » Data Wrangling Blog This list is static, but you can follow his links at http://del.icio.us/pskomoroch/dataset (tags: datasets data free datamining databases)
The U.S. establishment media in a nutshell media msm politics Famous Quotes at QuoteDB – Interactive Database of Famous Quotations Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.quotedb.com (tags: quotes quotedb quotations) I, Cringely . The Pulpit . Ozzy Knows Best | PBS Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pbs.org%2Fcringely%2Fpulpit%2F2008%2Fpulpit_20080404_004650.html (tags: cringely education gaming) Dr. King, Forgotten Radical | The American Prospect Annotated link [...]
King Remembered on 40th Anniversary of Death NPR report on the 40th anniversary of the killing of Dr. King. A very thoughtful look at Dr. King as a man rather than an icon. Rev. Joseph Lowery talks about King as a friend. (tags: npr mlk king)
Remembering MLK’s Prophetic ‘Mountaintop’ Speech : NPR (tags: king mlk) Dr. King Timeline by Students from Buckman Elementary School 1996 Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pps.k12.or.us%2Fschools-c%2Fpages%2Fbuckman%2Ftimeline%2Fkingframe.html (tags: buckman king mlk)
Remembering MLK’s Prophetic ‘Mountaintop’ Speech NPR has a nice roundup of information as we near the 40th anniversary of the death of Dr. King. April 3, 1968, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his final public speech. In a crowded church in Memphis, Tenn., King spoke of the injustice felt by the city’s sanitation [...]
Baseball Extras: The Curious Case of Sidd Finch (tags: baseball hoax sidfinch)
