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Monthly Archives January 2006

Scuttle – Social Bookmarking

Thanks to Tim Lauer for his post describing Scuttle and social bookmarking. Scuttle is similar to del.icio.us, but can be run on your own server. Not everyone will appreciate the opportunity to host your own apps (and not everybody should), but I enjoy the challenge of getting and keeping such applications running and the open [...]

Posted 30 January 2006 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) °

The Google Dilemma / The Google Decision

I have been listening to “The Google Story” as an audio book. With this experience as a background, the decision of Google to limit which Google features and resources would be available within China was made public (Reuters). This on top of the company’s resistance to requests for information by the Justice Department. The idealism [...]

Posted 26 January 2006 † grabe § Rants ‡ Comments (0) °

iLife 06

We ordered a 5 pack of the new version of iLife as soon as we could. There was a sticker from FedEX on my door when I got home tonight and I was anxious enough to experiment with the software that I drove out to the delivery center to rescue our software from the truck. [...]

Posted 24 January 2006 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) °

Rethinking knowledge skills: Cheating or “knowing where to look”

Some issues seem to keep resurfacing. The topic of whether students should now spend time learning what they can “learn to access” may be one such topic. I see this issue surfacing in a variety of ways. Cindy recently directed me to a link focused on “legalized cheating“. This article combined a discussion of ways [...]

Posted 24 January 2006 † grabe § Ed Practice ‡ Comments (0) °

Flickr, Education, Soft Porn

Flickr has been actively promoted on several of the education blogs we follow (e.g., Ed-Tech Insider, Education/Technology) and we use the site ourselves. As a consequence, Cindy has added a Flickr activity to the course she teaches for future teachers. However, as she spent more time exploring Flickr policies, she has discovered that there are [...]

Posted 21 January 2006 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (1) °

Getting Organized

When learning that I had a blog and taking a look, a vendor (my term for those folks who sell stuff) described my site as “mature”. I think this was a compliment (Note: I am working on not reacting to any reference to my age.) and I think the message was – “you have been [...]

Posted 21 January 2006 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Web 2.0 – A Summary With Examples

A significant proportion of my posts lately might be categorized under the heading of Web 2.0 and examples. Rather than attempt to piece together my comments, you might consider a very nice integration (designated as a white paper) provided by mercurytide. This post offers a summary and links viewers to exemplary downloads.

Posted 19 January 2006 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) °