The 6th incarnation of Elmer's blog
This is intersting. Great potential.
O’Reilly Radar > Rollyo: Roll Your Own Search Engine
Rollyo affords anyone the ability to roll their own Yahoo!-powered search engine, attenuating results to a set of up to 25 sites. And while the searchrolls (as they’re called) you create are around a particular topic (e.g. Food and Dining), they are also attached to a real person (e.g. Food and Dining is by Jason Kottke). The result is a topic-specific search created and maintained by a trusted source.
NASA World Wind
World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there.
There is an entry for Contract Law.
Wikibooks takes on textbook industry | CNET News.com
Today, Wikibooks contains 11,426 submissions. The topics covered range from biology to economics in New Zealand. Because the books are digital and open source, any teacher can decide to assign one and simply point students to PDFs they can print.
MAKE: Blog: Build a Telephone Recording Circuit from an Old Modem
This little hack is useful for those of us wanting to record Voip telephone calls for podcasts with good quality audio. Keep in mind that recording telephone calls without notifying all parties involved is against the law in many parts of the world.
Dave notes that I live blogged today’s sessions of the Duke Podcasting Symposium . I used Dave’s OPML Editor and I found it very handy. I’ve been blogging for nearly 5 years and I’ve threatened to live blog every conference I ‘ve been at since then, but it never seemed to work out. The OPML Editor made it work. Now if I could route the posts to this blog…
For all you folks looking for an alternative to .ppt, try a blog. For a bonus use Classcaster to add audio.
LawLibTech: PowerPoint Alternatives – From Browsers to Blogs, Part II
StarOffice 8 offers enhanced Office compatibility – Computerworld
Sun Microsystems Inc. today released a new version of StarOffice designed to better address the software’s compatibility with Microsoft Office, one of the chief complaints among users of Sun’s office productivity suite.
Interesting comment. At today’s Duke podcasting symposium someone asked an Apple engineer about Apple’s plans for video and he said that the laptop was the perfect video iPod and video on phones didn’t really work.
I don’t know about you, but I’m sensing a trend.
BetaNews | iPod Chief Not Excited About iTunes Phone
In an interview with the German daily Berliner Zeitung on Monday, Apple vice president and iPod division head Jon Rubenstein expressed his feelings on the convergence of music devices and cell phones, saying the devices are best left separate.
Sounds sweet:)
RollingStone.com: Bruce Springsteen : Springsteen “Born” Again : News
Bruce Springsteen’s seminal 1975 album, Born to Run, will be reissued in a thirtieth anniversary edition on November 15th. The three-disc set features the remastered album, a live DVD, an additional DVD of new interviews with Springsteen collaborators and a forty-eight-page booklet of previously unpublished photographs.
Well, cell reception in the Fitzpatrick Center @ Duke is non-existant, so I can’t call Classcaster. At lunch I’ll step outside and give it a try.