In my everyday technology browsing I see a fair number of interesting tools, sites, ideas, that come my way via RSS, twitter, etc. A lot of them I give a quick look, say “Hmm”, tag ‘em, and move on. Besides almost every post of unbelievable wizardry and in depth explanation of Tony Hirst, not often are there things that just knock me over breathless. Maybe I have been drinking the Web 2.0 Koolaid for too ...

How cool is this (and found via a tweet from Barbara Sawhill- twitterbution!)? Barbara Ganley splashes the New York Times on its story of Haste, Scorned: Blogging at a Snail’s Pace: When Barbara Ganley wants to collect her thoughts, she walks in the Vermont countryside, wanders home and blogs about it. In a recent post, she wrote about the icy impressions left in the snow by sleeping deer. In another, she said she wanted to ...

I have an idea how some rag tag blog army can storm the castle of the Walled Garden Content Horders and do some damage. Maybe. It is likely a dumb idea that someone will poke the Hummer sized holes in. This just flickered n when I read Clarence Fisher’s Twitter gripe: What he is saying is that he is checking the referred log to his (emphasis added) wide open shared blog and finding inbound links ...

El MundoReal™ está lleno de contradicciones que provocan dilemas; como muestra, esta perla: «Ascensor de emergencia» «No utilicen en caso de emergencia» (La foto la hizo Nawow en la el intercambiador de autobuses de Principe Pio, ¡gracias por compartirla!)

Looking for a free and easy way to capture an image from a PDF file and save it as a JPEG, PNG, or TIFF file? Well, you can always try to use a screen capture program or even the Print Screen key in Windows to care a screenshot, but this is a very tedious process if you want to save many pictures from a PDF file or from multiple PDF files. PDF Extract is a ...

Are Blogs Are Dead my photo of Nancy White’s graphic facilitation at Northern Voice 2008 (do I have to attribute by own photo? why not?) Lacking no editorial oversight beyond themselves and opinions of their 2 readers, one thing a blogger can do is change their mind. And back again. Last week I asserted, that despite some valley wag’s wired opinion, blogging was not dead. Actually I don’t change one bit of my barking at ...

Many will regret (or will lie and say they were there) missing last night’s presentation performance by Jim Groom and Tom Woodard as the norm-blowing closing act for the 2008 NMC Rock the Academy Symposium. You have to wade through this blog post to get to the video recording Donning their gas masks, flame throwers, and edupunk t-shirts, Jim and Tom laid out the warnings of zombies and where they lurk in educational technology. The ...

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(Science in China Press) Continental drilling reveals gas anomalies of CH4, CO2, and He in the deep crystalline rocks, which are correlated to the seismic horizontal component reflectors. Geochemical experiments show that porosity of crystalline rocks in the middle crust rose sharply due to water-rock interaction and made natural gas concentration in top of the mid-crust possible, thus resulting in some large gas reservoirs. In such cases, the seismic method can be used to explore ...

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The Lamest Unsubscribe Method Evuh by cogdogblog posted 28 Oct ‘08, 10.18pm MDT PST on flickr TeacherTube, blecccch. Never used, and surely never will. I’m trying to winnow down the crap emails form my inbox. Along comes a “newsletter”, unsolicited, unrequested, from TeacherTube. I zipped to the bottom and clicked the “unsubscribe” link. Wouldn’t you think that does what it says? About 99% of these inbox clutterng newsletters actually do what their links says, it ...

The editor of EDUCAUSE Review, a good friend and fellow Arizonan, has been nudging me a few years to consider writing an article. Sure I blog a lot, but a publish article requires things like grammar, references, and coherency… so last Spring I suggested co-authoring as a crutch. Over the summer, I was honored to collaborate with Bryan Alexander (that guy can write! We wrote the draft on Google docs and tagged madly our resources) ...

Inspired by the brilliant twitter love video by Martin I have been thinking of trying my hand at the craft, so here is a promo video for the upcoming NMC Online Symposium on Rock the Academy: Radical Teaching, Unbounded Learning. So I stretch the stereo type of “traditional” academy, but it’s all in fun. And it is all open content. Speaking of fun, that was looking for historic videos and footage at the Internet Archive ...