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turning up in strange places

The default license for my Flickr uploads is set to Creative Commons by-nc (attribution/non-commercial), which means that people are welcome to use my photos for non-commercial purposes, including creating derivative works, so long as they specify that I am the artist/owner of the original. This results in all kinds of interesting connections, including the thrill [...]

postcard: becky

June 2009lyrics, Enya

Isn’t it cute!

NMC Flip Mino HD by Rachel Smith posted 21 May ’09, 1.58pm PDT PST on flickr All ready for the Summer Conference – the official NMC 2009 logo on a cute little video recorder! Got gadget envy? Get one like it at the NMC 2009 Shop on CafePress. As part of an effort to be [...]

postcards back through time

Although I have only been blogging for three years, I have had a bloglike hobby for a lot longer. In 1996, an artist friend created an online postcard, and I liked the idea so I wrote one to her. I had recently read the Griffin & Sabine books, so a lot of my cards have [...]

Prezi, all grown up

My inbox this morning contained a message from the creators of Prezi, the “zooming presentation editor,” saying that Prezi is out of beta and just about to go public. Yay! I went back to my previously created Prezi about the 2009 Horizon Report to see if the download is working, and indeed it is! I [...]

lolcats + code = hawt

Two great tastes that taste great together: LOLCODE! Just look at this lovely little thing: HAI CAN HAS STDIO? VISIBLE “HAI WORLD” KTHXBYE It just doesn’t get any more poetic than that.

I <3 Prezi

Keynotes. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the ed tech speaker. Her continuing mission: to explore strange new presentation tools; to seek out new ways to keep her audiences awake; to boldly go where no PowerPoint has gone before. I just finished putting together the presentation on the 2009 Horizon Report that I [...]

run, don’t walk, to your nearest web browser

… and download Xobni. It’s out of beta! When I launched Outlook this morning, there was Xobni with a shiny new look. A little bit later, the email from Xobni co-founder Matt Brezina arrived: “Today is an exciting day for Xobni. After seven months of invite-only beta, we’re proud to announce that Xobni is now [...]

only the good die young

Microsoft is trying to buy Xobni. Xobni is a fabulous little tool that works with Microsoft Outlook. In fact, I’d phrase it differently. Xobni is a fabulous little tool that makes Microsoft Outlook work. You know that useless search that churns and churns and doesn’t turn up anything remotely useful in the first fifteen minutes? [...]

hot metal love

I happened across this lovely example of blacksmithing as art (courtesy of Make). The movie is about seven minutes long but it’s a very entertaining seven minutes, especially if you are into shaping hot metal. Now to check eBay for one of those water cutters…