MacWorld has published a highly positive, 4.5 mouse review of DevonThink Pro 1.0 in its latest online issue:
http://www.macworld.com/2005/11/reviews/devonthinkpro1/index.php?lsrc=mwrss
Congratulations to the DT team for this well-deserved honor!…
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A bit past our semester halfway point, I asked students to (anonymously, if they chose, as many did) evaluate the course: what they were or weren’t getting out of the class, which types of work were most and least useful to them, which aspects of my teaching practices were least or most productive. The results [...]…
Drawning on a new Pew Internet and American Life Project report, the NYTimes has an article entitled “The Lives of Teenagers Now: Open Blogs, Not Locked Diaries” which chronicles the media-savvy participatory media producing generation:
According to the Pew survey, 57 percent of all teenagers between 12 and 17 who are active online – about 12 million – create digital content, from building Web pages to sharing original artwork, photos and stories to remixing content found elsewhere on the Web. Some 20 percent publish their own Web logs. [...] Most teenagers online take their role as content creators as a given. Twenty-two percent report keeping their own personal Web page, and about one in five say they remix content…
3 ways to use del.icio.us for categories in blogger – Freshblog…
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Ian McKenzie has a post that examines a number of different Desktop Blogging Clients – he manages seven blogs with Blogger, WordPress, MovableType and Thingamablog and is looking for a client with the following features:
The ability to post to multiple blog clients and handle multiple accounts.
Another important feature is the ease of creating [...]…
In sending out variously tailored job letters and cvs (hm: would that be curricula vitarum?), I’ve realized that I’ve been lucky in the diversity of courses I’ve had the opportunity to construct and teach. Like most folks in my position, I’ve taught the first-year writing staff syllabus at my various institutions, but up to now, [...]…
woot, K-1 is on right now. This is the time that I’m happy that I own a laptop so I don’t have to sit in the basement and freeze my butt off, and have the ability to now watch K-1.
I’m not a big fight fan, but some of the fights they do have are pretty cool. They talk up some really crappy fighters, and it’s always fun to watch them fight other crappy fighters. It’s like a bunch of school girls in a slap fest…..
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Or should I call him Little Mister Run Amok?
Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward testified under oath Monday in the CIA leak case that a senior administration official told him about CIA operative Valerie Plame and her position at the agency nearly a month before her identity was disclosed . . .
Woodward and Post editors refused to disclose the official’s name or provide crucial details about the testimony. Woodward did not share the information with Washington Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. until last month, and the only Post reporter whom Woodward said he remembers telling in the summer of 2003 does not recall the conversation taking place . . .
Woodward never mentioned this contact . . ….
In a scene sadly reminiscent of those titty-flashing Girls Gone Wild videos without which no bachelor’s personal library is complete, a female blogger fondles her breast while rubbing up against “globally influential” content provider Glenn Reynolds in the orgy room……
Lifehacker links to Steve Rubel’s useful and timely article entitled “Micro Persuasion: Ten Blogging Hacks“
This will be worth going over for the class next January. Much here is worth consideration and emulation.
Better yet, why not just subscribe to the feed.
(Via Lifehacker.)
