An Unflattering Comparison
Yes, it’s been a while. It’s just too easy to push blogging to the back burner and too difficult to find something interesting to say. But one thing has been gnawing at me lately. Watch: To my...
View ArticleAzeroth: More Real than School
I saw “Intellagirl” Sarah Robbins give a keynote on Friday at the LHRIC Tech Expo and she spoke a lot about gaming, how the millennials learn, and how games may offer a glimpse at new ways to engage...
View ArticleWhat We Can Learn from Best Buy
Some quotes from a video I found on YouTube: “They’re already socializing [online]; why not give them a venue where you can be part of the conversation?” “The stuff that I know is valuable enough that...
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Video Comes to Wikis
Just finished a teacher center class on wikis this afternoon, only to stumble across fliggo.com, a new video sharing site which does to YouTube what Ning did to Facebook: empower users to roll their...
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Where have all the bloggers gone?
Will Richardson is blogging about once per week now. In April, he wrote a totlal of 6 posts. In April of 2007, he wrote 27. Andy Carvin wrote 1 post in February, 2009 and 7 in February of 2007....
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Google Earth + CIA Factbook = GIS Goodness
I’ve always been a fan of Google Earth. Who isn’t? And even before Google Earth (heck, before Google) there was the CIA World Factbook, one of the first truly useful sites in the history of the web....
View ArticleBing gets lost in the Wave
I don’t write a lot about “the industry” here but I can’t resist sharing a quick thought on how things are changing in the world of computers and the internet. Microsoft, once the behemoth of the...
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NECC Day 1: Media and Expertise
Another year, another NECC. My conference started with an “extra-curricular” visit to the Newseum, Washington D.C.’s newest museum. The Newseum’s focus (as you may have guessed) is the media: a...
View ArticleNECC Day 2: Nothing New Under the Sun?
So at the end of a long day of tromping around the exhibit hall and running from presentation to presentation, I was having a very overpriced drink at a reception with some of my friends yesterday and...
View ArticleNECC Day 3: 10 Minutes Behind
I was 10 minutes behind all day. Might have something to do with a late night at a bar called “Madam’s Organ” (a riff on “Adams Morgan, get it?) the night before… In light of some pretty disappointing...
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