February 2008
82 posts
I might have found a replacement for... →
Social networking through online chess.
APA Formatting and Style Guide - The OWL at Purdue →
The other OWL site on APA
APA Overview and Workshop - The OWL at Purdue →
Excellent overview of APA style
“Thanks to a more technology-savvy workforce, ubiquitous broadband, online...”
– Technology Populism: Risks & Rewards - ReadWriteWeb
“There are two main benefits to the 10 O’Clock rule. First,...”
– Productivity: Increase Your Morning Productivity with the 10 O’Clock Rule
Twitter Technology Blog: Announcing Starling →
Starling is the open source version of Twitter (or the back end of it).
Buckley dies; Students still read his essay →
Conservative Author Buckley Dies at 82. William F. Buckley Jr. died at work, in his study. The Cold War had ended long before. A Republican was in the White House . The word “liberal” had been…
Video: Jonathan Coulton performing 'Still Alive'... →
Just a fun little video of Jonathon, Leo Laporte, Merlin Mann, and Veronica Belmont Rock Banding “Still Alive.”
Google U →
Ideas like these will become more frequent as the price of a college education surpasses the cost of a really nice house in Indiana (or, a livable one in California).
How to write a post on Wordpress using Safari... →
How to post a story: turn off Rich Text Editor and use the ugly one.
OPML editor: I just keep coming back to you →
Just when I think: Okay, I like the outlining, I sort of use the flickrFan, I don’t really use the podCatcher, I love-hate the NewsRiver, I return again. Today, it was blog editing. I decided to take a popular blog editor for a drive: Mars Edit and thought it was going to be more iBlog instead of TextMate. I don’t mind the visible tags, but it just didn’t “click” for...
Linux.com :: OpenProj: good software, but needs... →
If you can’t program, perhaps writing good documentation is an option.
Google Talkabout: Google Talk chatback →
Nice little badge to put on your site; handy if you are on gMail or gTalk a lot.
UNIX tips: Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits →
From the site: This article takes you step-by-step through several good, but too often neglected, techniques for command-line operations. Learn about common errors and how to overcome them, so you can learn exactly why these UNIX habits are worth picking
BricaBox →
This is the “between” Ning and Wordpress…so the founders say. Looks interesting.
Learning CMS Blackboard goes for the money in suit →
Blackboard Wins Patent Suit Against Desire2Learn. edremy writes “Blackboard, the dominant learning management system (LMS) maker, has won its initial suit against Desire2Learn. Blackboard gets $3.1 million and can demand that Desire2Learn stop US sales. (We discussed Blackboard when the patent was issued in 2006) Blackboard’s main competitor (IMHO) is FOSS Moodle which costs...
Adobe - Adobe AIR →
Adobe’s AIR finally hits 1.0.
RecipeSource: Chicken Corn Soup →
About the closest recipe that I could find that mimmics Lori’s Gma’s chicken corn soup.
A Research Paper addition →
One of the missing pieces on the “Think Different” papers is in the research stage. For the “expert” interview, I think I should have Ss view/listen to ~1-2 hours of each person’s “work” and then have the expert talk the “work” through with the S. Or, another way to do this, is that it provides the S with a basis to ask questions/discuss the...
The importance of visual programming →
Trying to answer the question on which programming language is good for kids to begin with (and some consideration to Python and other variations).
Link →
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Coffee Stains: On the Anniversary of Steve... →
Five years ago, a friend, colleague and department chair, Steve Kirkpatrick died after a battle with cancer. I mostly think of Steve when I’m running by the dam by the reservoir and I am reminded of his idea of saving the world. I think I posted this last year, but in honor of Steve, I’m posting his speech to the graduating class of 2002 (roughly 8 months before his death).
Thanks Steve.
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Trying Thunderbird again… →
And I blame it on @rherdman for suggesting that I give it another try and I, once again, remember why I didn’t decide on using Thunderbird: importing address contacts.
I know it’s not that big of a deal, but it is. I use GMail and since my defection from .Mac mail, I’ve used Google’s mail service with really no complaints (much cheaper than .Mac mail). Up until a couple weeks ago, I would access...
Coffee Stains: Of Rats and Boys →
Tonight the 7-year-old informed me that Mom said “We could get a four-legged guinea pig” and I told him that his mother “wasn’t right in the head.”
He thought that was funny and went and told Mom what I said and she laughed.
Don’t try and 7-year-old’s compound adjective of “four-legged,” I think he just meant…well, I haven’t seen a three-legged one before. I am serious, though, about another...
My 7-year-old's response to being President. →
I’m not quite sure what the prompt was, but Colin brought home a worksheet where the students were to fill in the bubble. The prompt was “If I were president, I would…” and Colin wrote: “…I would help people build their houses.” I’m not sure if the teacher even talked about Carter or what, but you have to admit it warms a parent’s heart to see...
Agreement reached over prior review request at... →
An Indiana high school newspaper staff and their principal reach an agreement over prior review.
An introduction to Adobe Flex for beginners - Part... →
Flex is Adobe’s development platform for RIA that includes Flash. This tutorial explains a lot about what Flex is and then gets to the “beginners” part of the post.
Reaching for the Sky Through The Compute Clouds -... →
Explores the roots of Cloud computing in LAMP and how really it is a good idea in the progression of how we serve internet pages.
Tangler Discussion Forums →
Was well-reviewed today by RWW, easily integrates with popular blogging sites, Tangler brings a live discussion forum that now can be embedded into a post.
A Vendor-free IT? Sounds exciting, but would take... →
Open source and the future of vendor-free IT. In reading through IDC’s excellent report, “2007 Industry Adoption of Open Source Software, Part 2: Project Adoption,” analyst Matt Lawton stumbles across an intriguing observation in open-source software adoption. He apparently believes it is a weakness of the current open-source landscape, but I believe it is a strength. [LXer Linux...
Getting Boys to buy clothes →
“Many schools talk about technology planning in that they think the first step is...”
– Barry Fishman in ADVANCE for Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologist (08 Feb 11
OPML Editor is Dave Winer's Emac →
And maybe it’s taken me this long to figure it out, but Dave is doing in OPML what some folk do in Emac (the editor, that is) or vi. He’s got a whole envirnoment to develop other things besides being an OPML editor. It know this isn’t earthshaking news, but I think now folk outside of OPML editor (who have been using it for blogs or as a reader) are now being introduced to it via...
OPML list of things to work through →
Change the default font size and family Spell check Get rid of the silly browser error. My three annoyances (for now).
Living with Data: Attention Sinks & Time Burglars... →
Merlin Mann’s slides from the MacWorld presentation.
LIving with Data →
Merlin Mann’s MacWorld 08 presentation on dealing with data. He has definite overtones of GTD, but if you thinking digitally, Merlin is worth listening to.
11 Things To Know About Semantic Web -... →
RWW thoughts on the next wave of eon of web development (be it Web 3.0 or Semantic Web).
How to Build a Twitter Agent →
On building a twitter agent or bot; nice background on using the XMPP library in other languages.
Coffee Stains: A Confession about my Lanyard →
It was given to me from a former colleague’s husband who worked in DC when the love-years of NoChildLeftBehind were being birthed in the aisles of Congress. NCLB was the thing to rally behind, leaving no one behind. And yet, even though some knew that the emphasis on high-stakes testing was bad, the idea of NCLB was something to believe in (or vote in).
And I’ve worn my NCLB lanyard to secure my...
It's over! →
From Twitter: This just in from MSNBC: Writers Guild of America says its members have voted to end their strike!!! http://tinyurl.com/2kt49r
New business models for news →
An interesting way of looking at the “rescuing” the ship that is the newspaper.
Which Athlete of Learning Are You? «... →
Applying the metaphor of running to learning style.
With Writers writing, when's House coming back? →
When is your favorite show coming back? Check out the list below. UPDATE: There’s new information about which broadcast-network shows are likely to return soon here. If the Hollywood writers’ strike isn’t officially over by the time you read this, the odds are it will be history soon. A tentative deal was announced early Saturday, and reports indicate that a settlement...
I like the idea, just don't see the need [From... →
Twittershare Brings File Sharing to Twitter.
I love Twitter but even when it’s not down it’s got its limitations. Enter the API and a world of developers eager to engage with the active community of Twitter users. Twittershare is the newest truly useful development on top of Twitter; it lets you easily share files of up to 10mb in size.
Official Google Docs Blog: Stop sharing... →
An easy way to get feedback from people using GoogleForms (actually, it’s a part of GoogleSpreadSheet). Pretty cool if you are already using GoogleDocs.
Feature Articles - Reframing Research Through the... →
RAB v. 1.0 that I had to abbreviate down to 500 words or less. It does give a solid, but brief, overview of the writing engagement.
“Although he would like to scan his entire book collection, Mr. Templeton, who is...”
– Pushing Paper Out the Door - New York Times