Archive for October, 2004

I just wanted to capture some possible compelling uses for podcasting in an educational setting. Lectures. Imagine students being able to subscribe to an RSS feed, and have recordings of every lecture automatically stored on their hard drive or iPod or whatnot for review. This would remove the need for the dozens of recorders at... »

I was just messing around with some of the various options for recording a podcast, and think this solution will work quite nicely: Snapz Pro X 2.0. It is usually intended to be used as a screen recorder, but also does an excellent job of recording both system sound and microphone input. I... »

There are some hacks to get RSS enclosures into Wordpress 1.2, but I just came across this on the Wordpress support forums: TextDrive Community Forum / Request for enclosure_type and enclosure_size fields It's already baked into Wordpress 1.3-alpha-4, and so will be available in the next version. I'm not quite ready to start messing with... »

I've been listening to non-commercial programming on my iPod for a few months now, being totally hooked on ITConversations. It's extremely refreshing to have compelling, intelligent content that isn't full of ads and BE THE 9TH CALLER AND GET TICKETS TO AVRIL LAVINE!!! and mindless DJ drivel crap. Over the weekend, I played around with... »

King has been at it again.... Keynote Web Viewer Plugin It's a plugin for Keynote that provides a WebKit-powered web browser component (the same one used in Safari and OmniWeb) for use in Keynote slides. Very slick. It has some limitations at the moment, but it's pretty amazing. Playing quickly with the first release, and watching... »

Apple - iPod Photo So, anyone in the market for a gently used 20GB 3G iPod? And it looks like I'll need another mortgage because of this... »

It's been so long since I have written (and mailed) an actual ink-on-paper lick-a-stamp kind of letter, that I almost forgot how to do it. It's been years. I pay all of my bills online (and have, the better part of a decade). Cards etc. are delivered personally. Correspondence is via email or iChatAV... »

I've been experimenting with directed server side aggregators to present the concept to a potential client. The basic goal is to provide something like EduRSS or the new EDUCAUSE blog aggregations for members of a department or faculty (or combinations thereof). Feed on Feeds looks like a pretty lightweight and functional option. I'm running a... »

Josh and I (and sometimes King) have been utilizing a pair-programming-at-a-distance method of collaboration (not quite like spooky action at a distance, but sometimes it feels pretty close...) Our magic sweet spot combo of tools includes 2 computers at each end of the pipe, one with VNC (a server at one end, a client at... »

Not sure how I missed this, but I just came across the EDUCAUSE | Blogs site-within-a-site while surfing Feedster to get the latest stuff from the Educause 2004 conference. I had no idea that Cyprien Lomas was blogging - met him at the NMC2004 Summer Conference at 2004, and I'll definitely be following his blog... The... »