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Dave Warlick says that he’s not a happy camper. Will Richardson says that he’s got too much good stuff to read lately. Across the bloggospehere, I keep reading more and more about folksonomies, tags, social software, rss, and xml. There is no question, we’re at a very interesting point in history.
We’ve moved […]

The big event of this podcast is the fact that I don’t remember how many I’ve done anymore. Seriously. That’s it. Alright, well I do ramble on quite a bit about social software and tags, the two biggest trends since the dot in dot com. While I don’t directly review or […]

Ok, between moving to Flickr, reading about Technorati using tags now, and being bombarded by articles involving tagging, I can’t seem to get my mind too far away from the implications of tags and social software. The Shifted Librarian posted up an article recently about a presentation she is giving at the MLS February […]

This is for those of you using iPhoto, espeically if you’re also using Flickr. Ken Ferry has created a Keyword Assistant plugin for iPhoto. Instead of using the default way to assign keywords, which is rather clunky and kind of a pain, you can just type keywords in manually in a little […]

I’ve been reading quite a bit about how Will uses RSS and things like MSN search and Feedster to subscribe to ongoing searches for certain keywords. I haven’t done nearly enough of this, but one search that I did subscribe to was for a friend of mine. Nelson is really into Cryptozoology. […]

You’re going to love this one. As if we didn’t have enough reasons to love RSS, I just discovered one more. I wish I could give credit to whoever pointed it out, but I can’t find the original posting. Regardless, someone has created an RSS Calendar feed. So that one person […]

Found this one via Educational Weblogs. pMachine Pro, the same software that I use for my three blogs (this one, dembo.org, and my test blog, is now completely free. A year or so ago, they came out with Expression Engine which does all sorts of fancy things, none of which I really need […]

Just goofing off on Flickr after tagging a few hundred photos and came across this this set of composites. I’ve seen a ton of Photoshop work done before, even done quite a bit myself. But this crosses the line between playing with a photo and creating art. I think I’m going to […]

There’s a few blogs that I consider the ‘dessert’ of every bloglines session. If I find that there’s new posts there, I save them until the end of the visit. Alan’s Cogdogblog is one of those. Today he posted up a DeliciousFurlBagConnotea Marklet Maker. Basically, it’s a way to kill two […]

Thought it was going to be a quicky, but I guess I rambled on… again. Here’s the show notes for ya.
Taking It Global: Affectionately known as TIG. It’s not just for social studies teachers and students.
My Flickr Feed: Still getting all the tags in, but over 1300 photos are up.
GCPS’s Del.icio.us bookmarks: […]

Wow. I just listened to the Engadget podcast from December 29th and flipped out when I heard about this one. Orb Networks is a new service that allows you get access too your media from any device connected to the internet. Basically, you run some software on your computer that creates a […]

Fascinating story I heard on the radio today. As soon as I got to work, I did a Google search about it and found an article about it in the Washington Post:
WHFS-FM, the Washington area radio station that was a pioneering purveyor of alternative rock to generations of young music fans, did a programming […]

From Opera’s web site:
Opera Software today announced that it will offer free site licenses to higher education institutions. In an effort to meet the student and university need for security on the Internet, Opera offers a secure, fast and reliable Internet browsing alternative at no cost to schools. This new offer is in response […]

Alright, might as well get this over with. Yesterday Apple announced their new products and yes, both major rumours were true. Apple released a ‘budget’ headless mac (basically an imac with new keyboard mouse or monitor) and a flash based iPod.

As you can see, it’s like a little slice of the […]

On Sunday, BoingBoing published a short list of companies that have fired people for blogging. Let this be a sober reminder to everyone that even if you are disgruntled your business or school, you should never put it in print. That is unless A) you already have another job lined up or B) […]