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I don’t know about you, but since I discovered NASA World Wind and Google Maps Satellite view, I’ve been doing quite a bit of sightseeing. It really is quite addicting, zooming around the map looking for landmarks.
Someone has taken that concept and turned it into a blog! Google Sightseeing takes you […]

Whenever someone comments on the blog, I receive an email. At that point, I have the choice of responding directly to that person via email or responding on the blog. I prefer to respond on the blog, but I’m always worried that the person won’t see that I’ve replied. I just found […]

David Warlick is currentely writing a book about classroom blogging, and plans to have a chapter in it devoted to podcasting. He asked me to write a quick response to the question, “Why do you produce a podcast when you already have a weblog?” Unfortunately, I truly don’t know the meaning of the […]

Via Jon Stoper:
Yahoo recently one upped Google by adding live traffic to their maps. Google’s initial response seemed to be the Google Ridefinder, which is neat but hardly a Google-worthy response to something as useful as up to the minute traffic reports.
Today Google responded in a big big way. As reported […]

Loving this one already. It’s a Send To Flickr bookmarklet. Drag it to your browser bar. When you’re on a page that has an image you’d like to use, click on the bookmarklet to see a list of all the images from that page, seperated from the text. Then you […]

From the “I should really blog about this when I have some time” vault:
CNet published an interesting article last week called Why can’t you pay attention anymore? Sounds like it might be about people with ADD, doesn’t it? Well, two out of three ain’t bad. This article actually describes a ‘new’ disorder […]

The eternal struggle between Google Maps and Yahoo Maps continues!
I used to use Yahoo Maps quite often, it was definitely my online map engine of choice. Then Google Maps came along and stole my traffic away from Yahoo. I really liked the ability to just scroll around the map versus the ‘click and […]

Updated with new links
Today’s show is all about everyone’s favorite photo sharing site, Flickr! It’s the April Fool’s edtion and I’ve got more tricks for you than you can shake a stick at. We begin with just plain silly and move on to some fantastic ways to stretch the ways you can use […]