Via Weblogs in Higher Ed comes this terrific tutorial on using Bloglines: betterdays » Blog Archive » Using Bloglines (or How to keep up with dozens of blogs everyday)
This includes many screenshots, and covers how to set up a Bloglines account, how to subscribe to feeds by pasting in the RSS/Atom feed, [...]
Slashdot is reporting on Room-Temperature, Small-Scale Fusion at UCLA.
Update – Wired has picked up the story
One of my favourite blogs, CogDogBlog, has moved over to WordPress. In describing the migration, Alan Levine said:
Shazam! That was too friggin easy. The power, the interface, and the features I am just scraping at are exciting, almost like discovering blogging anew. I should have done this long ago!Yep – that sums [...]
MLBlogs : Official Affiliate : Unofficial Opinions
Now you can follow along the boys of summer by reading about them in the blogs of summer. I haven’t seen it linked from the main Major League Ball page, but Major League Ball has set up a blogging site for baseball fans, supported by SixApart. [...]
There are a few writers in the ed-tech world that I can count on for writing something that just gets my brain in a resonating hum, and David Wiley has done it again::iterating toward openness – Freire, the Matrix, and Scalability
To be honest, I suppose the resonance I found in this post is [...]
Daring Fireball: Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Adobe’s ‘FAQ’ Regarding Their Acquisition of Macromedia::I’ve seen links to this in a few places, and I just wanted to do my part to increasing the page rank for when someone Googles for “Adobe Macromedia acquisition“. Call it Google-bombing if you will [...]
When I was a youth, we would hang out at the mall. Today’s youth are spending their time in a social venue that many parents and teachers may be unaware of, so I’m really glad to see that Alec Couros and Dan Schellenberg have put together a terrific compendium of CyberBullying Resources [...]
drupal.org | Community plumbing
After six months of development, the Drupal team is proud to announce the Drupal 4.6.0 release! Just in time for the ID-COP site development – the timing couldn’t be better.
I’m sitting in a lecture about inclusion in schools (more on that later, I hope) but thanks to the wonder of wireless I’ve just been reading Will’s post on Boring Content, Boring Schools. I’m glad he focuses on a specific kind of boredom that is a problem.
The bigger sense here, for me at [...]I was in Saskatoon today, and had a chance to drop in on Rick Schwier to talk over a few projects and ideas. While we were at it, I turned on my iRiver to record another Rob and Rick podcast. This was recorded straight into the built-in mic on the iRiver with no post [...]
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Me tweeting
- My grade 9 students are learning/practicing photographic composition. See their work at http://t.co/c2lkNTDv
- @shareski I think you owe him for all the pictures of his kids you put in them.
- @shareski I thought design mattered.
- @cptteacher Thanks for your comments back to the students. They will be happily surprised to be getting comments from outside school.
- @pstratton08 Exactly my thoughts. And I think that knowing your work is going to be on display encourages students to find good photos.

