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Outreach Box on Web 2.0 EXPO in San Francisco April 22-25

I was browsing through my aggregator yesterday, and found reference to this web site for for the web2.0 EXPO in San Franciscos, April 22-25.  The site is cool, colorful, and decorated with a wide assortment of Web 2.0 company logos.  But what really caught my […]

I haven’t been very active here lately — with good reason. Thursday, I completed a huge writing project that I will describe later. As though of you who follow me on Twitter know, I’ve been sucking down espressos at Starbucks, and writing, writing, writing, which had me way to focused to enjoy the […]

My head’s been elsewhere lately, working toward an insane deadline — which ended yesterday — and I’m still a good two days from finished. I’m upset, but thousands of times more excited about what I’m writing. More about that later.
As I say, my head’s been elsewhere and I have not been able to […]

I’m up way to early in the morning.  Not sure why I couldn’t sleep, though I am pretty stressed out right now with a writing deadline that seems almost impossible (yep it’s impossible), three-hour workshop tomorrow to prepare for, handouts for a virtual presentation due Tuesday, a podcast that’s resting in my portable recorder that’s […]

Related to this morning’s post about Content as Raw Material, my friend, Glenn Wiebe, posted a link and description this morning for Digital Vaults, a new service of the National Archives.  It’s  an incredibly useful, visually appealing, and addictive collection of photos and documents from the archive, organized by tags and […]

One of the many distinctions that I frequently make in my presentations is a comparison between how my generation views information and my children’s generation.  For us (oldsters), information is a product to be consumed.  We purchase a book so that we can read it, a CD so that we can listen to it, a […]

A while back, I wrote about Google’s charting API, which enables us to create basic graphic visualizations of data and then generate a URL that will display the graph in our blogs, wikis, or web pages.  I’d had to post a warning at the top of the article stating that, “This post rates pretty high […]

We’ve heard about software agents for years, programs that are designed or design themselves based on observing your digital behaviors to act on our behalf, conducting ongoing research, answering the phone for us, etc. See Apple’s Knowledge Navigator video, which Shaun McElroy reminded us of in U Tech Tips on April 1.
With the emergence […]

Consider Google Earth, as described by the University of Southern California’s Viewfinder project:
There is something almost cosmic about flying around in Google Earth. It allows world travel at lightning speed. It cultivates a sense of global awareness on a visceral level. And it places you in a reference frame akin to astral projection, ultimately altering […]

Steve Dembo presenting through USTREAM

Yesterday, I got to sit by the fire in Starbucks, in the enviable position of being close to the warmth and the electricity. With my new USBConnect card from AT&T, I no longer have to sit by the drafty east door to sip from Panera Bread’s free WiFi.
My word processor […]