Apr 05 2011
I’m really starting to love these 23 Things Kansas activities, because I’m being introduced to things that I may not have sought out on my own otherwise. Today’s activity—Library Thing, Etc.—is the perfect example of that. I decided to sign up for an account with Shelfari.com, since it is owned by Amazon.com (huge fan!). I’ve …
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Apr 05 2011
Today’s 23 Things Kansas activity is another one of those that I’ve never really gotten into, mainly because I haven’t really had a need for it (or at least I didn’t realize I had a need for it). I decided to use Slideshare.net just to try out a new tool. (I have used slide sharing …
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Apr 04 2011
Here is your pastel-themed word cloud for the month of April! (A couple days late.)
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Mar 28 2011
Screencasting is an area that I am (amazingly) relatively new to. It is amazing to me that I’ve gone this long without screencasting, given how often people ask me how to do things on the computer. I end up making long, detailed instructions complete with screen captures (still images) and annotations. The same activity probably …
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Mar 28 2011
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Mar 28 2011
I love web video. I’m just going to be very upfront about that. My wife and I cancelled cable television, and we get all of our “TV” fixes from Internet video from sources such as Hulu.com, Netflix Streaming, Amazon.com Streaming, not to mention each of the content providers own webpages (NBC.com, CBS.com, etc.). I have …
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Mar 27 2011
Back in the day (early- to mid-1990’s), all the cool computer kids knew how to get into chat rooms. There were BBS’s (Bulletin Board Systems) that you dialed into (almost always a local number) that provided a number of services, one of the primary being chat rooms. I could not even begin telling you how …
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Mar 19 2011
OK, folks, repeat after me: “I am not afraid of the cloud. I am not afraid of the cloud.” Good. Now with that out of the way, we can take a look at how much better cloud computing is for 90% of the things we use computers for. I’m going to approach the topic a …
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Mar 18 2011
Today’s 23 Things Kansas activity is another one to which I am no stranger. Microblogging–which I don’t think is exactly the best term for it, but don’t have a better suggestion yet–takes advantage of peoples’ short attention span, and only allows them small spaces in which to create messages to followers. Whereas a blog–like this …
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Mar 14 2011
I have to admit this is one area that I never really got into, and continue to struggle to find relevant to the way I do things. The 23 Things Kansas post about Tagging and Social Bookmarks highlights websites like Delicious.com, Diigo, and Blinklist. I created a Delicious account back in 2006 (back when it …
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