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Blog Round-Up

Posted on October 12, 2012 By Tom 3 Comments on Blog Round-Up
Internet

The Death of Blogging has been touted for years now. Even the term “micro-blogging” for services such as Twitter has fallen out of favor, being replaced by “social media” and the like. Therefore, it’s very encouraging when I come across new blogs that have lots of potential. Some of these have been around and I’ve … Read More “Blog Round-Up” »

Sorry I Haven’t Posted Lately

Posted on September 19, 2012 By Tom 1 Comment on Sorry I Haven’t Posted Lately
Miscellaneous

I was looking through my news feed when I came across an item from Mental Floss about Niche Blogs. There were a few interesting ones, such as Star Trek Points at Things, The Worst Thing for Sale (with some not-safe-for-work content), and a UK blog entitled Dull News in Local Newspapers. One that especially caught … Read More “Sorry I Haven’t Posted Lately” »

Blurring the Lines of Webdom

Posted on November 20, 2008 By Tom No Comments on Blurring the Lines of Webdom
Internet

I’ve been tweaking my online presence over the past several weeks. As I’ve gotten more involved with Facebook, I’ve started pulling in RSS feeds from Twitter, Friendfeed, Flickr, and most recently RandomConnections so that all of these automatically update on my Facebook profile. For me it’s a simple matter of laziness. I’d prefer to type … Read More “Blurring the Lines of Webdom” »

Four “B”‘s for Successful Blogging

Posted on September 26, 2008 By Tom No Comments on Four “B”‘s for Successful Blogging
EdTech

Yesterday afternoon I had the privilege of addressing the Lambda Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma Society International on the topic of blogging for educators. I modified one of my previous presentations, bringing it up to date a bit. Usually I start out by asking the teachers what they think of when they hear the word … Read More “Four “B”‘s for Successful Blogging” »

Embeddable Google Books

Posted on September 24, 2008 By Tom No Comments on Embeddable Google Books
General Technology, Internet

From Lifehacker.com I stumbled across this post on the Google Operating System Blog about a method of embedding Google Books into blogs and web pages… Google made it easy to embed in a site any book available at Google Book Search. You can add a fully-functional widget using this code: <script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://books.google.com/books/previewlib.js”></script> <script type=”text/javascript”> … Read More “Embeddable Google Books” »

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