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I’ve been quiet lately due to getting ready for vacation. We’re heading off to Iowa City for Christmas and then we go straight to Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic. I’m very excited, my first real time off in about a year. Anyway, I whipped off this podcast while a switch was […]

Another ‘cast hits the airwaves! I’ve changed the format slightly. For this podcast, I’m focusing in on a single piece of social software, del.icio.us. For the next few podcasts, I’m going to try to key in on a single site or piece of software and really go into it in depth. […]

Found this little tidbit through Geek News Central. Appearantly Microsoft tried to shut down a site called MacSlash, because someone posted a comment containing a possible Longhorn serial number 8 months ago. Instead of doing the logical thing and contacting MacSlash and asking them to delete it, they rallied their team of lawyers […]

I just deleted about 10 paragraphs of me venting at my Head of School. I really don’t want this blog to become a place for me to spew hostilities at people I’m upset with. Like I’ve said before, there are so many things to be positive about, why waste the bandwidth on negativitiy? […]

Alan just posted about Connotea, a new social citation and bookmarking service extremely similar to del.icio.us. It’s pretty cool, but I’m not a scientist and probably won’t use this one.
However, what I will use is his ultra cool 4 in 1 bookmark tool that he talks about at the end of the […]

Major kudos to one of our school librarians, Fredrica, for pointing out this article from the Shifted Librarian that I totally missed somehow. Basically, Jon Udell came up with a very cool little bookmarklet for local libraries.
Let’s say you’re on Amazon.com and you have your eye on Life of Pi (the book I’m […]

Not quite sure how thrilled I am about this one. Google won it’s trademark suit with Geico. The gist of it is that other insurance companies can purchase the keywords “Geico” and “Geico Direct” and have links to their companies appear as ads along the right hand side when someone searches. My […]

I placed an order for that Sinister Dexter CD last night, and this morning I got the following email from the company I ordered it through.
Your CD has been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow.
A team of 50 employees inspected your CD […]

Ok, even though I’m a total gadget freak, I’m trying really hard not to let gadgets and reviews of gadgets take over this blog. However, I do have to fill you in on what I think might be the coolest MP3 player on the market. You can see on my flickr feed a […]

I know I’ve been kind of quiet for the last few days. I’ve been sick with the stomach flu and have just recently started feeling human again. So that means a new podcast for you! For those of you listening directly, you should be using iPodder But if you insist, […]

Let’s start off with good things. I got a very pleasant surprise from my Head of School today! She found an article in the New York Times about using iPods to teach foreign languages, copied it off an put it in my mailbox. I can’t tell you how excited I was because […]

Looking for new blogs to subscribe to? Here’s a great place to start. The Edublog Awards results are in, you can find them here. I find it interesting that I don’t currently subscribe to any of the winners! I kind of feel like I should have taken more time in […]

Ok, the latest and greatest podcast is up. New and improved with public domain music! The direct mp3 is available here, or if you’ve subscribed to the feed you probably have it by now! I’m going to start adding some show notes with the links I’ve talked about. I know in […]

Ok, I figured out what was wrong with the comments system (and learned a bit of sql along the way). So that’s fixed now. Membership registration is also fixed as well. So long as I was doing this stuff, I also made the primary font slightly more readable as well as updated […]

Shelby, one of Anne Davis’ fifth grade Blooming Bloggers, has this to say!

If someone came up to you and asked you what weblogging was, what would you say? I would say exactly this. Weblogging is when you can have the freedom to express yourself, and write about whatever you want to! You have to be […]