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The Principal and Interest : Kindergarten Readiness Principal Dave Sherman with some kindergarten readiness advice… (tags: kindergarten readiness sherman davesherman) The Mobile Journalism Toolkit contents – Reuters Mobile Journalism (tags: mobile nokia n95 reuters digital_journalism Journalism tools)
Leadership without Followers Chris Dede article about leadership and technology… (tags: dede leadership edtech) johnaugust.com » Does a working writer keep improving? (tags: writing improvement creativity advice howto productivity) WhatTheFont : MyFonts “using our WhatTheFont font recognition system. Upload a scanned image of the font and instantly find the closest matches in our database…” (tags: [...]
Official Google Mac Blog: Vidnik A simple application for making movies with the Mac’s iSight camera… (tags: google camera apps youtube mac vidnik)
doesfollow.com A simple way to see if one Twitter user follows another… (tags: twitter api tools friends mashup)
Twitter / MarsPhoenix The Mars Phoenix spacecraft that is scheduled to land on Mars has a Twitter feed… (tags: twitter phoenix nasa mars) Justin Blanton | Amazon Kindle another kindle review (tags: kindle reading books amazon technology)
My Tweeple Manage Your Twitter following and followers (tags: twitter mashup manager tools)
Maker Faire – Do-It-Yourself – Make Magazine – New York Times “A new breed of tinkerers mix science and craft to make things both goofy and grand…” (tags: make makerfaire nytimes)
JPL – Phoenix Mission News, Features, Images, videos, and audio News and updates on the Phoenix Mars Mission… they even have a Twitter feed… (tags: mars nasa twitter phoenix)
Masses, and individuals, in China – James Fallows (May 14, 2008) “The masses in China are overwhelming; the people in them are vividly and irrepressibly individual.” (tags: fallows earthquake china schools)
Google brings Friend Connect to the masses (tags: google social twitter)
brightkite.com “Brightkite is a location-based social network that enables people to take their online profiles with them into the real-world and make real-world friends.” (tags: brightkite mobile sms location socialnetworking community web2.0)
TwitterSnooze! v0.13 Hit the snooze button on your verbose Twitter friends… I can appreciate that it was inspired by Merlin Mann… (tags: twitter mashup api socialnetworking snooze funny) Summize Conversational Search Search Twitter in realtime. Create RSS feeds for searches… (tags: search mashup twitter api aggregator)
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 [...]
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 [...]
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)
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 [...]
