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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.

Tags: business, del.icio.us, history, Internet, podcast, socialbookmarking, usability on 2008-06-20 and saved by5 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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"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

Tags: science, users, usability, tips, Research, learning on 2008-06-16 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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how to keep your old cell phone number when you switch carriers

Tags: business, US, tips, how-to, space, usability, users on 2008-06-15 -All Annotations (0) -About

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The Getty Museum has a large photographic holding and here shows it off in slide shows with or without music, tailored to your "mood."

Tags: design, digital, film, Internet, multimedia, presentation, video, visualarts, usability on 2008-06-12 and saved by53 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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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.

Tags: business, literature, learning, fiction, Internet, usability on 2008-06-09 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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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.

Tags: academic, how-to, education, pedagogy, Internet, tips, usability on 2008-06-09 -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromwww.edtech.neu.edu

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.

Tags: film, usability, users, roundups, video on 2008-06-02 -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromwww.salon.com

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.

Tags: Research, science, identity, usability, statistics, sustainability, news on 2008-06-02 -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromwww.timesonline.co.uk

you send document, can send it zip compressed; they send it back to you as word, excel, or image files.

Tags: tips, tools, composition, Internet, usability, users, multimedia on 2008-06-02 and saved by15 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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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

Tags: culture, design, identity, presentation, usability, users, learning, multimedia on 2008-05-28 and saved by5 people -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromwww.cazh1.com

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.

Tags: education, links, Research, visualarts, usability, portals, design, history on 2008-05-25 and saved by7 people -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromwww.infotoday.com

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.

Tags: culture, Internet, definitions, culturalstudies, digitalculture, usability, use, users, links, journalism on 2008-05-25 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromwww.granta.com

for screenwriters, storytellers, and public speakers; these are attention grabbers

Tags: film, screenwriting, tips, narrative, tools, users, usability, literature, fiction on 2008-05-24 and saved by7 people -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromwww.softwaresecretweapons.com

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"

Tags: culture, definitions, usability, tools, theory, Internet, education, pedagogy, rhetoric, design, digitalculture on 2008-05-23 -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromwww.readingonline.org

most thorough reader's review I have yet read; largely enthusiastic, especially about reading newspapers and journals online

Tags: design, tools, digitalculture, Internet, fiction, literature, presentation, usability, users, use, tech, hypertext on 2008-05-23 -All Annotations (0) -About

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consumers should know before buying a DVR or recording system like Microsoft's Media Center

Tags: digitalrights, television, video, usability, users, tools, digitalculture on 2008-05-19 -All Annotations (0) -About

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alternatives to photoshop

Tags: tools, tips, design, how-to, usability on 2008-05-12 -All Annotations (0) -About

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

Tags: education, tools, tech, usability, how-to on 2008-05-12 -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromwww.computerworld.com

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

Tags: socialbookmarking, tools, search, tech, usability, Research on 2008-04-18 and saved by43 people -All Annotations (5) -About

more fromwww.searchenginejournal.com

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

Tags: audio, culture, design, tech, space, sustainability, usability, politicaleconomy, links, portals, Internet on 2008-04-15 -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromwww.wencelworldwide.com