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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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How to find images on the internet « Random knowledge
free, creative commons, and for pay; collections; search tips
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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"
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Pew Internet: Writing, Technology and Teens
4/28/08:"Teens write a lot, but they do not think of their emails, instant and text messages as writing [yet]... believe good writing is an essential skill for success and that more writing instruction at school would help them."
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Amazon Kindle Review
most thorough reader's review I have yet read; largely enthusiastic, especially about reading newspapers and journals online
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Free Music: 22 Websites That Are Driving Daggers Into The Heart Of The RIAA | TinyDad
some is for downloads, some for Internet radio
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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."
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"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. "
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Special Characters — Alt Keyboard Sequences
use num. lock first to access numeric keypad; many useful things not always accessible otherwise
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cityofsound
thought provoking set of links on relations between place, especially cities; art; sound; and design
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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."
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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.
more fromwww.andreapolli.com
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
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The Fischbowl
blog from high school teachers using Internet applications to teach complex writing and communications skills, often in multimodal, multimedia forms of presentation
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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
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