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Monthly Archives September 2007

MYSPACE/MTVs’ Presidential Candidate Dialogues

Here is a new take on the the role of social networking and the politicial process. Myspace/MTV are sponsoring a series of presidential candidate dialogues. On different scheduled dates, individual candidates respond to questions in real time – there is no debate (see YouTube debate). An interesting feature is the opportunity to participate by agreeing/disagreeing [...]

Posted 28 September 2007 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Ken Burns – The War

I have long been a Ken Burns fan. I own his “jazz” series and is the type of material that I will watch every six months or so. His new documentary, The War, examines the WWII from the perspective of 4 communities (one in Minnesota) and has been playing on PBS this week. Burns and [...]

Posted 27 September 2007 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

NAEP Scores

NAEP results are in and you are likely to encounter a discussion from most news outlets (see NY Times article – I knew open access to the NY Times would be useful). Really short version – math scores are up a little, reading results are mixed, various political groups interpret differently (NCLB may be good [...]

Posted 26 September 2007 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

NY Times

The NY Times has given up trying to make money (with the exception of ad revenue) from its web site (article from the Times on decision). Perhaps of interest to history buffs, most of the archives will also be available. The NY Times site claims to be the most visited web site associated with a [...]

Posted 25 September 2007 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Flickr Frustration – Attribution

I am working on the appropriate solution for a hypothetical problem. Let’s say you are searching for images for your own use and you locate an appropriate image within Flickr. The page claims the image is available under Creative Commons and the license says “attribution”. What is the appropriate attribution? The owner of the image [...]

Posted 21 September 2007 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Mindmap Wikipedia

Here is another suggestion from my wife. Mindmap generates an interactive “mind map” based the content of wikipedia. Enter a search term and that term becomes the starting point for the map. I am guessing what the application does is built the representation based on the embedded links (note correspondence between wikipedia entry and mind [...]

Posted 21 September 2007 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Digital Immigrants May Not Be Far Behind

While much has been made of the digital native vs. immigrant distinction, there has often been little data on just how involved individuals of different ages are with specific technologies. Reuters now reports the results of a recent survey arguing that there is little age difference in cell phone use. I do understand that level [...]

Posted 18 September 2007 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: