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Monthly Archives July 2006

HitchHikr

David Warlick’s new web service is HitchHikr – an aggregator for participant generated summaries of conference experiences and related resources (flikr images). I suppose HitchHikr implies you get to go along without paying for the plane ticket (I tried HitchHiker and someone else evidently got that address first). This is an interesting idea and I [...]

Posted 19 July 2006 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

FCC Commissioner Interview on Net Neutrality

C|NET News offers an interview (print and short video) with Michael Copps – FCC commissioner. The commissioner supports retaining the openness of the Internet and he urges content providers to become involved in the political process to prevent carriers from using the delivery system to manipulate user choice. By the way, C|Net is experimenting with [...]

Posted 16 July 2006 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

FOX vs. CNN

I was listening to podcasts this afternoon while I drove to the lake for a little R&R. The podcasts orignated at NECC. One speaker expressed a familiar concern regarding the development of student “information literacy skills’, related these concerns to the variability in quality of what students encounter on the Internet, used the bogus Martin [...]

Posted 15 July 2006 † grabe § Ed Practice ‡ Comments (0) °

Selecting a Bookmarking Service

I decided to set for myself the task of recommending a bookmarking service. After exploring a bit, I alterd my goal. Promoting a specific application would be presumptious on my part. I do not have enough experience with the options and the decision really comes down to personal preferences. A few comments and several links [...]

Posted 13 July 2006 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Who is #1?

This issue was raised on the evening news so I had to find the online source. Hitwise has just published some stats attempting to document the most popular Internet sites. These data indicate that MySpace.com is the most popular U.S. destination accounting for an astounding 4.5% of web visits. Last year at this time myspace [...]

Posted 12 July 2006 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Sometimes things can’t be fixed.

The drive in one of my Macs crashed. These things happen. I thought I had backed things up, but you always find something you missed. One of the first things I have discovered is that I did not understand how iWeb stores the web content a user creates. I know where the pages are in [...]

Posted 11 July 2006 † grabe § New Software/Hardware § Rants ‡ Comments (0) °

Wikipedia as a research source

The topic of whether or not wikipedia content should be referenced in papers will come up more and more. Alan Liu provides some thoughtful comments on the topic.

Posted 09 July 2006 † grabe § Ed Practice ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: