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Mashable reports that Adobe has officially announced their intention to create an online photo editing app…. and it’s going to be free. Obviously it won’t be as powerful as Photoshop or even Elements, but that’s still a pretty interesting announcement with implications for EdTech budgets everywhere. I already promote the usage of tools […]

I probably should have posted this one a few weeks ago, letting everyone know where I was going to be and when, but somehow it slipped my mind!
I was at METC yesterday for a quick presentation and dinner with a bunch of DEN folks. The presentation was on Blogging and Podcasting, and […]

So I’m digging WordSource, as I mentioned in my last blog post. I’m thinking that an easy to use bookmarklet would be really handy for it and wishing somebody would create one for me.
Then I think to myself, well…. People create bookmarklets, right? It’s just code, right? How hard can it possibly […]

I just checked out WordSource and so far I’m digging it (meaning that I like it and that I voted for it on Digg). It’s a social dictionary, or as they put it, “The Online Dictionary is Reborn”. The byline is “Never leave your browsers address bar. Go to word.sc/[yourwordhere]” and that’s […]

Illinois is the new hot spot for DOPA-like legislation. As first reported by Michael Stephens, Senator Matt Murphy is seeking to ban all social networking websites from schools and libraries. What’s a social networking website? Well, why restrict yourself by defining it?
I learned today through Jenny’s blog that Senator Murphy has a […]

Periodically I scan through my logs to see how many people have visited the site, what pages are getting hits, and how people arrive here. The search terms are always interesting, the list of terms that people use to arrive here really crack me up sometimes. However today I saw a search that […]

I just got an email from someone who mentioned that she was surprised she didn’t know I was blogging over at Digital Passports as well, so I thought I’d take a minute to pimp my other blog.
Basically over at Digital Passports I’m exploring the wacky world of online apps, Web 2.0 and the […]

If it’s good enough for Ewan, it’s good enough for me! Someone has come up with a way to back up your entire iTunes library online. I gotta admit, that sounds insane, but it isn’t a free service, so I guess they can find a way to make ends meet. I’m really […]

Bah, there’s two sites that I’m interested in checking out, but both are private right now and I don’t have a stoopid invitation.
The first is called Mindmeister , currently in alpha. Looks like an online version of Mindmanager Pro, which I was a huge fan of, but couldn’t really use because […]

I was first alerted to this through Will’s blog. Apparently, Michael Stephens noticed an article detailing an Illinois state senate bill that was submitted shortly before the deadline. The bill is called the Social Networking Web site Prohibition Act. Can you guess what it does?
Provides that each public library must prohibit access […]

My wife put together a little Scrapblog covering Aiden’s first month. During that first month, I took about 250 digital photos of him. If I keep that up, by the time he’s 18 I’ll have 54,000 photos of him in Flickr. Not bad for only 25 bucks a year!
Enjoy the scrapblog!

I know, some people are probably gasping right now, thinking that I’ve already been smacked around with the Geek stick a few times over.
However, when it comes to programing, I’m a total hack. I can usually take a look at code and figure out what it does, and teach myself enough to […]

I first read about this via a blog post from Alan Levine at http://www.cogdogblog.com . It’s a little IM bot called IMified, that basically allows you to interact with various ‘web 2.0′ sites through chat. This blog post, for example, is being submitted through my chat client. Pretty slick. However, I […]

Sunday, when I was at the DEN PETE&C pre-conference, somebody mentioned to me a new search engine named ChaCha (I wish I could remember who told me about it, could have been Aaron).
This site is extraordinary. In a nutshell, it’s your typical search engine, but right next the normal search button is […]

Well, Chris Craft has called out for an Internet Speed meme, and I can’t pass up a good meme. So here’s my results.
First the test run at work on a Friday afternoon. As you can see, solid upload speed, but pretty weak download speed. Wonder what work server is hogging my bandwidth […]