Monthly Archives: November 2004

Google Does It Again. . .

Not to turn this blog into a Google love-fest, but their latest acquisition is pretty darn cool. Over the weekend, an annoucement showed up on the Google homepage that they’ve acquired Keyhole, a “3D digital earth pioneer.” From Keyhole’s Web … Continue reading

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A Very Special Google

Just read an article at The New York Times about a new Google search: http://scholar.google.com/ From the Times article: Google Scholar, which was scheduled to go online Wednesday evening at scholar.google.com, is a result of the company’s collaboration with a … Continue reading

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Getting Control of Those Blogs. . .

Check out blogdigger. This service allows you to aggregate several RSS/Atom feeds into a single Web page from which you can then generate a new, compiled RSS feed (to be consumed anyway you choose). I found this service while working … Continue reading

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Who Turned On the Lights?

One thing that I really wanted to experience before leaving Missoula was the Northern Lights. For two summers, I hoped that I would catch a glimpse of this amazing phenomenon. I know that it is possible to see them as … Continue reading

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Standards-Based Slideshows

For those of you who have never heard of him, Eric Meyer is a css god. And the latest css “breakthrough” I’ve discovered over on his site is A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show. Basically, the “tool” provided is a slideshow … Continue reading

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A Blackboard Alternative?

Check out this article by Charlie Lowe, a writing professor at Florida State University. Looks like he’s been using PostNuke as an alternative to Blackboard for one of his writing classes. He does some interesting, practical analysis of PostNuke vs. … Continue reading

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Chatter

Following a conversation that I virtually participated in at this year’s Educause, I am getting interested in the topic of bots. Rather than recap that conversation here, I’ll point you to other places where it has already been discussed and … Continue reading

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