I have had the opportunity to view and sometimes photograph bears on several occasions. I don’t count dumpster bears. The Ketchikan experience is at an entirely different level. The habitat is ideal and the salmon in the streams brings the bears into the open.
In this setting, bears and fisherpersons sometimes mix.
Last evening we were watching [...]
View from across road
Originally uploaded by grabe
We slept in this morning after a very long day of travel. The day began with fog and rain, but according to the brochure (160 inches a year) this would be typical. No bears last night.
This is the view across the road.
Our daughter is at work. They are not [...]
In a book, “they go through a lot of details that aren’t really needed,” Hunter said. “Online just gives you what you need, nothing more or less.” (comment of Hunter Gaudet)
The New York Times intends to offer a series of articles examining how the Internet is changing the way people read. The first offering in [...]
Welcome to Knol
A knol is an authoritative article about a specific topic.
Google has entered the competition for your information needs. Of course, Google has always been serving your information needs via search, but now it wants to organize and serve information more in the format of Wikipedia.
Acording to Wikipedia:
Knol is a Google project which aims [...]
applestore
Originally uploaded by grabe
We are in Chicago so Cindy can attend a conference for her job. I was able come along because airfare was over 1K and it was significantly less expensive to drive even with gas prices. Now, I have several days to explore the city and work in Borders.
I walked down State Street [...]
We are heading to Alaska in about a week to visit our daughter and enjoy some vacation time. We have enjoyed Alaska throughout our adult lives and this will be our 4th trip. Kim ended up working there for a summer partly as a consequence of our previous experiences as a family.
I started to look [...]
MIT World offers an interesting discussion between Cass Sunstein (Infotopia: How many minds produce knowledge - my previous post) and Yochai Benkler (Wealth of Networks). I think educators (and actually everyone) should care about the issues they discuss. The discussion ranges from the value of wikipedia to whether bloggers place themselves in an echo chamber [...]