links for 2008-01-24

• COVERITLIVE.COM - Home
  Web tool to facilitate live blogging of events.
  (tags: conferences web2.0 streaming socialsoftware presentation events embed)
• Fluid - Free Site Specific Browser for Mac OS X Leopard
  "Using Fluid, you can create SSBs to run each of your favorite webapps as a separate desktop application. Fluid gives any webapp a home on your Mac OS X desktop complete with Dock icon, standard menu bar, and logical separation from your other web browsin
  (tags: 2.0 browsers web2.0 fluid)

links for 2008-01-22

• TiltViewer
  TiltViewer allows you to browse Flickr's images in a 3D space. Images can be pulled from Flickr's Interestingness list or with specific variables such as user id, tags, and groups. A nice slide show tool alternative...
  (tags: api flickr gallery image images photography photos tools web2.0 slideshow)

links for 2008-01-21

• New York Measuring Teachers by Test Scores
  This looks to be a bit contentious...
  (tags: teachers testing tracking evaluation)

links for 2008-01-20

• Any Other Bright Ideas?
  Compact fluorescents are efficient, but many people have not embraced their glow.
  (tags: energy lights lightbulb home)

links for 2008-01-19

• JiWire Launches Free, Ad-Supported iPhone, iPod Touch Hotspot Access
  JiWire now provides free ad driven access for iPhone and iPod Touch users...
  (tags: iphone touch wi-fi free)
• NPR : Artist Chuck Close
  Terry Gross interviews artist Chuck Close...
  (tags: art inspiration npr close freshair)
• The Google Online Marketing Challenge
  A university challenge that has students use Google's online advertising products and test out trial campaigns with local businesses.
  (tags: google adword advertising higher-ed)

links for 2008-01-17

• Drop.io: Simple Private Exchange
  "A private place for exchanging photos, video, audio, notes, docs, and more. Each is accessible only to those whom you tell exactly where to look. No signup and no account. "
  (tags: 2.0 technology storage drop.io audio free hosting utilities useful)

links for 2008-01-16

• Drop.io voice
  "Each drop has a phone number and custom extension (just like each has an email address). Dial the number, wait for the prompt, enter your extension and start talking. Whatever you say we will convert to an MP3 and put on your drop in a matter of a few se
  (tags: iphone mobile phone podcasting podcast productivity recording voicemail audio free)

links for 2008-01-15

• Google Prepares for a Better Mobile Web
  Google upgrades its display for users of the iPhone.
  (tags: google mobile iphone)
• Google iPhone Upgrade
  Google announced new improvements to the integrated Google experience on iPhone. Improvements include an enhanced gmail with autocomplete address and also access to iGoogle...
  (tags: google iphone websites mobile)

links for 2008-01-14

• oxford internet institute | webcast | Internet Governance and Regulation: The Future of the Internet - and How to Stop It
  "This inaugural lecture by Jonathan Zittrain proposes a theory about what lies around the corner for the Internet, how to avoid it, and how to study and affect the future of the internet using the distributed power of the network itself, using privacy as
  (tags: technology policy internet zittrain law)
• Concurring Opinions
  "Concurring Opinions is a group blog with a broad emphasis on legal topics. It is run by Concurring Opinions, LLC, a Pennsylvania Limited Liability Company. Concurring Opinions regularly publishes contributions from blog members as well as guest bloggers.
  (tags: legal law blog)
• UChannel - The Future of the Internet - and How to Stop It
  Podcast: Jonathan Zittrain on Internet Governance and Regulation
  (tags: podcast zittrain internet governance regulation)
• Pistachio Consulting Inc. » Twitter is my Village
  An interesting look at Twitter and the community that can develop around its use...
  (tags: twitter social web2.0)

links for 2008-01-13

• Candidate Schedules from the NY Times
  The NY Times has a web page with a listing of candidate schedules. A nice way to anticipate where the candidates are visiting and what will the be the talking points of the day. You can also subscribe to the calendar with Google Calendar...
  (tags: calendar politics nytimes)

links for 2008-01-12

• Doodle: Easy Scheduling
  Doodle helps scheduling meetings and other appointments. Doodle is simple, quick, free and requires no registration. Simply set up a poll, send a link to ...
  (tags: doodle calendar web2.0 useful events howto)
• Summize - Discover reviews and blogs on millions of products
  Summize connects you with the opinions of millions of people on zillions of products. Summize scours the web for the latest user reviews and blogger discussions, surmise their sentiments, and summarize them.
  (tags: comparison shopping web2.0 mashup guide)
• bookr :: pimpampum
  Bookr is a mashup that allows you to create online picture books using images from Flickr...
  (tags: photography photo books flickr mashup)
• Former OLPC C.T.O. Aims to Create $75 Laptop - New York Times
  Pixel Qi is company founded by former OLPC CTO Mary Lou Jepson and it is looking to create a $75 laptop. It is trying to advance technologies developed for the OLPC into low-cost computers and power-efficient laptops, mobile phones and other consumer elec
  (tags: olpc laptop PixelQi jepson)
• BBC World Service - Find A Programme - Digital Planet
  BBC Digital Planet podcast with an interview with Mary Lou Jepson of Pixel Qi and formerly of OLPC.
  (tags: podcast bbc jepson pixelqi olpc)

links for 2008-01-11

• About « All Together We Can Do Our Best
  This site is led by Samuel Charles Sennott, who is a teacher focused on helping children and adults who have various labels of special needs succeed in school, communication, and writing.
  (tags: blog special-education special-needs)
• Talking Word Wall
  Utilize the OSX Voice over feature to create a personalized word wall system that has simple text to speech by clicking or arrowing into the letters or words on the word wall.
  (tags: education literacy web2.0 blog special-needs)
• Create personal mailing lists through contact manager
  Google makes it easier to manage mailing lists using Gmail.
  (tags: gmail google mail lists)

links for 2008-01-10

• TeacherTube - Online Photo Sharing in Plain English
  A simple explanation of backing up and sharing your photos on the web using online photo sharing services like Flickr.
  (tags: flickr photos photography commoncraft howto diy)

links for 2008-01-09

• 20+ Websites Optimized For The iPhone
  Mashable.com points to 20 sites that are optimized for viewing on the iPhone...
  (tags: iphone websites web2.0 mashable)

links for 2008-01-08

• library sponsored wireless in North Plains at walking paper
  Article about the North Plains Library's free wifi network in North Plains.
  (tags: library wifi wireless)
• Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Where did the computer go?
  An excerpt from "Burden's Wheel," the first chapter of The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, by Nicholas Carr...
  (tags: web2.0 internet history carr)

links for 2008-01-07

• Guerrilla Warfare and the OLPC - OLPC
  Discussion about the possible use of the OLPB in a war zone...
  (tags: wireless olpc laptop 1:1)
• This American Life: Shouting Across the Divide
  A Muslim woman persuades her husband that their family would be happier if they left the West Bank and moved to America. They do, and things are good...until September 11. After that, the elementary school their daughter goes to begins using a textbook th
  (tags: podcast, thisamericanlife,PRI, NPR)
• YouTube Feeds
  A list of useful YouTube RSS feeds...
  (tags: youtube RSS video)
• The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard
  Great video about our use of resources.
  (tags: video consumption stuff)
• An Interface of One’s Own
  NYTimes Magazine article by Virginia Heffernan about alternatives to word processors. Scrivener is highlighted among others..
  (tags: nyt writing technology medium scrivener)
• Literature and Latte
  Scrivener is a virtual writing studio that integrates the processes of outlining, storyboarding, research and writing. It's a notebook. It's an outliner. It's a cork notice-board. It's a ring-binder. It's a place to store and cross-reference your research
  (tags: scrivener software writing osx editors applications)
• Periscope
  Mac only web cam software that lets you use your iSight to capture activity in front of your Mac’s camera and then save or share that image simply and automatically. Several options for sharing including uploading to .Mac, FTP, email and Flickr...
  (tags: apple software surveillance webcam video osx security flickr)
• Mark Simonson Studio
  Fonts and graphic design...
  (tags: art graphics design fonts)

links for 2008-01-06

• Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech » Blog Archive » What is Video?
  (tags: video)
• What This Gadget Can Do Is Up to You - New York Times
  Hackable PVR
  (tags: PVR video)

links for 2008-01-05

• What to Expect at MacWorld - PaulStamatiou.com
  Paul Stamatiou speculates on what to expect at the upcoming Mac World...
  (tags: mac apple stamatiou)
• TwitterWhere - Filter Tweets by Location at Matt King’s Blog
  A geographical filter for Twitter...
  (tags: geocoding local mashup twitter TwitterWhere)

links for 2008-01-04

• The Scoble scuffle: Facebook, Plaxo at odds over data portability
  (tags: facebook plaxio socialnetworks socialsoftware)
• NPR : David Cay Johnston on How the Rich Get Richer
  Investigative reporter David Cay Johnston explores in his new book how in recent years, government subsidies and new regulations have quietly funneled money from the poor and the middle class to the rich and politically connected.
  (tags: johnston books taxes policy)

links for 2008-01-03

• DCortesi . blog » Twitter Stats
  A Perl script that pulls data from your public Twitter stats and produces data to be pasted into a Numbers spreadsheet for data visualization...
  (tags: twitter visualization osx perl)
• Ajaxian » Use the Google Chart API to create charts for your web applications
  A nice overview of the Google Chart API...
  (tags: google api charts)