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It Gets Worse: Joshua Schachter Leaving Yahoo
Founder of delicious leaves Yahoo, which had stalled on developing a new version of the site that it had purchased; no ads on site, no development of it, same old story; Yahoo also dropped its good podcasting directory.
Moodstream™ by Getty Images
The Getty Museum has a large photographic holding and here shows it off in slide shows with or without music, tailored to your "mood."
Should I Buy a Kindle? « Amazon Kindle Guide, Free Books & Resources
Lots of pros and cons and readers' reports summarized; some hitches you may not have thought of. Mothersite has good listing of how to get free ebooks in Kindle format or convert them to it.
Setting Guidelines for Discussion
how to use online discussion in teaching, perhaps in Blackboard: many good tips on mother site, including rubrics for evaluating grades; most teachers require a certain amount and quality of entries, and also grade them.
PDF to Word Converter. Convert PDF to Word DOC or Excel XLS Online, Extract Images from PDF.
you send document, can send it zip compressed; they send it back to you as word, excel, or image files.
The Web Habits of Highly Effective People | Online Only | Granta
Ask everyone you know what their web habits are: it reveals a lot you won't have known before, about them and about Internet use. Here some authors and folks in publishing talk about what they do, with links.
How to find images on the internet « Random knowledge
free, creative commons, and for pay; collections; search tips
Reading Online--A Tale of Differences: Comparing the Traditions, Perspectives, and Educational Goals of Critical Reading and Critical Literacy
compares two approaches to reading critically on the Internet, and how to teach that skill; "education is always a contextually situated, socially constructed, ideological practice"
Amazon Kindle Review
most thorough reader's review I have yet read; largely enthusiastic, especially about reading newspapers and journals online
Digital Image Resources on the Deep Web - ReadWriteWeb
"These images won't show up in search engines' image searches or on Flickr (save one exception), but instead can only be accessed via the links below."
"Gagging librarians is horrendous." The Internet V. FBI: Net Wins - John Battelle's Searchblog
"The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has withdrawn a secret demand that the Internet Archive, an online library, provide the agency with a user's personal information after the Web site challenged the records request in court. "
Special Characters — Alt Keyboard Sequences
use num. lock first to access numeric keypad; many useful things not always accessible otherwise
cityofsound
thought provoking set of links on relations between place, especially cities; art; sound; and design
What is SoundAboutPhilly : SoundAboutPhilly :: gophila.com - The Official Visitor Site for Greater Philadelphia
audio tours of a city, great for travelers: "SoundAboutPhilly is a new series of free, customizable sound-seeing tours told by "real" Philadelphians, accompanied by dynamic mapping, audio, text and vivid photography."
Andrea Polli: graduate course in audio production: sound environments
How does one define music, sound, noise, and silence; the social and political functions of these elements? Useful paths for both producers and listeners. Good online resources and links, stimulating ideas.
Search | PodBlock - Experimental Audio
research project: many sites and podcasts to check out, both experimental audio and experimental music; I am looking at the former but the line is often blurred between the two genres
The Fischbowl
blog from high school teachers using Internet applications to teach complex writing and communications skills, often in multimodal, multimedia forms of presentation
Top 10 Firefox Extensions, and More
thirty different lists with tips for Firefox, annotated extensions author found useful, etc; all the authors seem to have different preferred strategies
Incredible Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts Which You Probably Don't Know About | Jeet Blog
I really did not know about them. Keyboard shortcuts make life easier for me.
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