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  • Google Earth the first Killer Network App?

    Well, the “web” in it’s many variations is certainly an application, as are the massive Oracle/SQL/Whathaveyou databases that run corporations, these too require network connectivity. But what about the “killer app” something that everyone has got to have and has to use in some manner or be left behind. I think Google Earth is that…

  • Get your Mojo Going

    If you are bound to Windows and are already using things like Portable FireFox to move your life around – or Google Browser Sync – you might be interested in this. MojoPac claims to be able to do what the rumours surrounding the iPod and “iWalk (I know it was a Spymac hoax, but the…

  • Intermediate files for video production

    I’m actually glad to have this problem. What has happened today as I have been working with a class that is doing a video assignement. I’ve blogged before on how the storyboard and the shotlist is so important to video production the classroom. But today what happened was that there were students who shot on…

  • SimSchool

    I’m prepping a presentation on SimSchool that I’ll be giving tomorrow and as impressed as I was with it at SITE 2006, I’m more so now that I’m starting to work with it a little more, it is becoming even more impressive in what it can do to help get those sticky classroom situations under…

  • Just a mash of stuff – Google and the Divide

    I found a few interesting things this morning – the first an individual playing chicken with a train, the second, a report about the Digital Divide that still exists in the US between “races” (nee melatoninly differentiated populations maintained by social and economic inequity) and the last is that Writely is now accepting new registrations…