EduBlogs with Another Sort of Edge. There's been a lot of talk in the blogosphere about the phenomenon of the scholar bloggers (much of it, of course, by and for the, uh, scholar bloggers). But there's a lot more to higher education than the academics who… [Invisible Adjunct] trying not to talk about it, honest, […]

Oh the Things We Could Do with WorldCat!. Wow – Peter Janes caught a heck of a post by Tim Bray about OCLC's WorldCat database! About as Big as the Web “In recent months, I've been having serious fun on the job working with OCLC WorldCat data. WorldCat is big – about as big as […]

Internet Bookmobile. Jack Schofield writes in The Guardian about Brewster Kahle's heart-enhancing project, the Internet Bookmobile. Each van has a million digitized public domain books. Writes Jack: “It takes about 20 minutes to print out a 300-page Wizard of Oz,” says Kahle, “and if you have four printers, you can produce up to 30 books […]

Deaf people like the Sidekick. Apparently T-Mobile's Sidekick mobile communicator is proving to be very popular with the deaf: Danger was getting a lot of feedback from unexpected quarters. “We got some e-mails initially from people who were influential in the deaf community talking about how much they liked the device, and they're a great […]

“Digital Cameras Can Cause Blindness”. Anil Dash spots a rather desperate sign in the window of a Manhattan shop that develops film: I noticed this sign in front of a camera shop here in Manhattan a few weeks ago and remembered to take a picture of it the last time I walked by. “Digital Cameras […]

sometimes saturdays become sunday before you want them to… yesterday i bought and played master of orion for far too long, deciding in the end that the game is basically like civilization but not as interesting, i was hoping to get simcity 4 for the mac, 'just to see how it is' but it wasn't […]

where the boys are…. …isn’t where I want to be these days. Shelley convinced me to join the blogunlimited list, after the blogrollers list… [mamamusings] Well I joined the blogunlimited list after Liz posted it, and i see similar problems, the tone is that of debate, instead of conversation. It is contention, and and either […]

Open Education Presentation – Concept to Reality. I couldn't get onto the conference call today, but this is Stephen's outline.  See also DLORN (Distributed Learning Object Repository Network) which articulates what he's been talking about for a while. [Serious Instructional Technology] this is a nifty presentation. well worth reading.

Saturday Morning Cartoons. Whatever happened to Saturday Morning Cartoons? An astonishingly intelligent article about how Cable TV, dual-family households, regulations and more eliminated what more than a few of us remember quite fondly as the magical time when suddenly TV existed for our personal entertainment purposes. Anyone else remember occasionally dragging themselves out of bed […]

friendster demographics. An odd thing about Friendster is its demographics. Based on the members in Norway (these are the only members I browse occassionally, apart from friends of friends) almost everyone's a designer, a musician, into cool technology or a blogger. Most… [jill/txt] Well i finally joined friendster, and right now other than ego surfing […]