Archive for April, 2006

I have a Sony DSC-W1 and have really enjoyed it: it’s incredibly easy-to-use. So now that I’m thinking about expanding, I’m wondering if I’d like to leave the Sony world. I’d hate to have to know 2 or 3 camera operating systems and modes of operation – which I’d have to do if I...
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OK. You want to be cool. You want to be an entrepreneur. And you want to start a shiny new web 2.0 company. Here’s an idea for you: You 2.0. Or myspy. I can’t decide which name I like better. But here’s the idea in four words: persistent painless personal history. Got that? The...
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Congratulations Rastin Mehr on being named a project mentor for Joomla’s entrants in the Google Summer of Code. Rastin is a good friend and colleague, and will be a great mentor.
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While I was doing some education/technology research today, I ran across a tutorial for Finding Information on the Internet. 9 major sections, 5-6 subsections, and a whole page of “things you need to know before starting.” I find it incredibly how educators can be so incredibly … ummm … how can I say “stupid”...
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John Gruber at Daring Fireball is taking the plunge: testing out the blogging-is-my-job waters. As I was reading about that, I happened to click on his colophon, to read these delightful words: If Daring Fireball looks like shit in your browser, you’re using a shitty browser that doesn’t support web standards. Netscape 4 and...
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Since both Aidan and Ethan were doing podcasts tonight (Aidan on his third birthday, and Ethan on his favorite games, Gabrielle could not possibly survive the night without doing her own. So we did. And here are Gabrielle’s thoughts on The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, which we watched tonight on DVD:
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Since Aidan just did a podcast about the presents he received for his third birthday, Ethan wanted to do one too. So we did a podcast together of his favorite games … one card game (Skip-Bo), and one computer game (Nanosaur 2). Voila:
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Aidan and I do a podcast about the presents he received for his birthday …
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(As promised here.)
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This is a test of Sidewalk. Sidewalk lets you create web forms very, very simply, and stick them on your website without any application development whatsoever – and very little technical ability or knowledge at all. Here’s my first test … tell me something that’s cool: Please fill out our form. The best thing...
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Ummm … I’m a little confused by this one. I ran over to Plaxo, a company that synchronizes contact data between you, your various devices, your friends, and anyone you want. Mostly because I saw this post which says, basically, that they suck. Checking out their products, they offer a free service, but if...
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It never changes, does it? I’ll scratch your back, if you scratch mine. Today, Microsoft basically purchased the privilege that it received a week or so ago: getting pre-installed on all of Lenovo computers made and sold in China. It’s a realpolitik manoevre that Microsoft basically had to make: buying $700 million of hardware...
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I’m doing some education research lately and happened to come across this article which refers to the “Canada effect.” Some have quipped that state-level student achievement in the U.S. can be best predicted by proximity to Canada … In other words, the most northern states typically have the best results. However, lest we Canadians...
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How do you know it’s 2006? I received an invite to a marketing webcast from the American Marketing Association today. Halfway through the first paragraph: Traditional communication methods such as mail, email and a generic “dot com” website experience are simply not working. Wow. Innovative to traditional in less than a decade. I think...
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From Plastic Bag: “To make money by appealing to the stupid human instinct to collect dumb things.” Check the whole post for more …
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