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20 Jun 08

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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16 Jun 08

Sleep, Attention, and Memory: Not (Maybe) What You Thought-- Blogs Scientific American Community

"sleep can make memories more stable, so that they are more resistant to interference and decay"; and coffee-loaded all-night studying can make the information just slide away

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12 Jun 08

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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09 Jun 08

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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02 Jun 08

10 from Cannes, with love - Beyond the Multiplex - Salon.com

May 28, 08. Festival reports are always good places to find films to put on a mail order DVD rental list a few months from now. I have a long wish list, mostly international, that I keep on my computer.

www.salon.com/...index.html - Preview

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Tissue of dead humans to be cloned - Times Online

Scientists can clone cells from tissues taken from dead people who donated their bodies for medical research. Much of it is frozen stored tissue, and cells can be viable for up to thirty years. UK, not US.

www.timesonline.co.uk/...article4040290.ece - Preview

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28 May 08

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Powerpoint

the author's own ideas plus links to other major Powerpoint strategies; he says, and I agree, do not have things you will end up reading to audience; think about how to engage audience

www.cazh1.com/...d-and-ugly-of-powerpoint.shtml - Preview

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25 May 08

Looking for Good Art: Web Resources and Image Databases, Part 1

2004; in-depth study of how to look for art resources; one of my favorites is the New York Public Library collection, where you can order quality, framable, large photographic reproductions of anything you admire.

www.infotoday.com/...mattison.shtml - Preview

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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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23 May 08

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"

www.readingonline.org/...art_index.asp - Preview

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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

www.macintouch.com/kindle - Preview

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Opinion: The top 25 overlooked and underrated features in Leopard

especially useful is archive mailbox, which lets you clear out some of the valuable emails you were saving in your mail program

www.computerworld.com/...article.do - Preview

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18 Apr 08

Diigo : The End Of Bookmarks?

in-depth review of social bookmarking site and its new features

www.searchenginejournal.com/...6608 - Preview

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15 Apr 08

cityofsound

thought provoking set of links on relations between place, especially cities; art; sound; and design

www.wencelworldwide.com/...fsound-wencelworldwide-28.html - Preview

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