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Monthly Archives December 2006

Times Person of the Year

As most know by now, the Time Person of the year is YOU. You in the Time perspective refers to OUR involvement in the participatory net (Web 2.0). I do not typically read Time online so I am not familiar with their conventions for offering magazine content online. When I first tried some days ago, [...]

Posted 27 December 2006 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Good Causes

I have written about the emotional attachment I have to some of my computers in previous posts. I do understand that these machines are just machines, but some machines also represent part of my personal history. I have used some of these machines to write the stories of my life. Cindy gave me a MacBook [...]

Posted 26 December 2006 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Happy Holiday

We are in Minneapolis sharing the holiday with our children. It is Addison’s first Christmas and at this age she enjoys the wrapping paper and the stocking as much as the presents. Cindy did buy me a MacBook Pro (more on that later). Enjoy the day!

Posted 25 December 2006 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Blogger.com Access Control

I picked this info up from David Warlick. Like many bloggers I started blogging years ago using blogger.com. At first I used their site and then I purchased the pro version so I could serve blog content from my own server. Eventually, I moved on to software that was more powerful. Blogger.com remains an extremely [...]

Posted 23 December 2006 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Advancing K-12 Education – Time Magazine Suggestions

I promised yesterday that I would comment on the recent Time magazine articles that have commented on education and the participatory Internet. The cover story of the Dec. 18 Time addresses the question How to Build a Student for the 21st Century? The summary – Today’s economy demands not only a high-level competence in the [...]

Posted 20 December 2006 † grabe § Research ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Give Picture Posters

A year ago at about this time, MacWorld had an article describing how to use the Automator to generate a 20X30 poster from images stored within iPhoto. This article prompted me to generate a blog entry. The article provided access to an automator script that users can activate to generate the giant pdf poster. Now [...]

Posted 17 December 2006 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) °

Net Neutrality

An article in SchoolCIO postulates potential support for net neutrality: Internet neutrality proponents believe that the recent change in Congress is likely to boost their efforts to push legislation that would prohibit tiered access to the Internet. The article suggests that Reps. Markey and Dingell will be in better positions to support a telecommunications reform [...]

Posted 16 December 2006 † grabe § Policy ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: