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Internet was restored late yesterday afternoon, also announced on WRAL.  I wonder if the loss of only Cable Television would have warranted a news alert.  During the outage, my phone continued to provide me access to e-mail, but otherwise we were cut off. 
With little else to do, I walked up to our neighborhood stores, […]

Internet went down about an hour ago, and tech support has not been available — busy signal. I just received a text message from WRAL News Alert that a construction accident has cut Time Warner Cable service to 250,000 customers in the Raleigh area.
Bummer!

I got raked over the coals pretty good yesterday.  There was lots of disagreement in comments over where IQ comes from,  the purpose of education, my choice of sources, and more.  It’s what I hope to see — civil, constructive conversation.
But my reason for sharing the WIRED article seems to have been missed.  It wasn’t […]

Christmas came early this year with notifications from the NECC program committee arriving in my mail box yesterday evening.  They have accepted two of the proposals that I submitted.  I’m disappointed in the ones that were declined, but I’m happy to be presenting

Contemporary Literacy in the New Information Landscape

as a spotlight session and

Advanced Blogging, or […]

Every once in a while, I’ll grab and old issue of WIRED Magazine and thumb through just to gander at what got our attention only five or eight years ago, what cell phones were hot, how much memory we lusted for, and even a few ads for Apple Newton PDAs.
Yesterday I reached back only a […]

One of the hottest educational ideas of the late 1990s was rubrics.  As information and communication technologies (ICT) began to proliferate into many aspects of many societies and constructivist learning started to fuel the imaginations of educators, we needed a way to quantitatively assess the information products that students were assembling in their learning explorations.  […]

Tiger Butter

I haven’t written much lately.  Simply too busy with shopping, holiday’ing (well, not so much of that yet), and working through some writing and programming projects.
Today is our annual reunion and holiday celibrary of employees and alumni of the media and technology division  (or what ever they’re called now) of the NC Department of […]

Extreme frustration is giving way to a mild attachment I’m beginning to feel my new Motorola Q phone.  I’ve  never complained about the slightly larger screen (larger than Treos) and vibrant display.  But my eyes started to twinkle when I discovered that my new favorite RSS reader, Google Reader, has a handheld version that works […]

One of the holy grails of technology is video search.  What if you could search a database of video for clips that say this or that.  Efforts have centered on voice to text technologies, but Nexidia is taking a different approach, something that they call Speech Intelligence.  Their technology listens for phonetics, the same thing […]

Baris Karadogan, on Monday, wrote about new opportunities to become someone else.  In his AlwaysOn piece, he writes…
(Payperpost.com) offers bloggers cash from advertisers if they write on the topic of interest for the advertiser.  It’s a really cool idea and the company calls itself rightfully the “Consumer Generated Advertising Network”.  For example here is what […]