Monthly Archives: March 2012

Patent Battles

This post from Bloomberg Business provides an interesting summary of the tech patent battles. It is difficult for consumers when companies become self centered and the focus is more on other companies as enemy than on whether actions taken are … Continue reading

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Student use of wikis

Educational Researcher, a major AERA research journal, had a recent article summarizing use of wikis in K-12 settings. The authors have already posted a summary so you do not have to be an AERA member to take a look. The one characteristic … Continue reading

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Too helpful

I am on a mission to reduce my Mac’s efforts to be helpful. Why some programmer would assume I wanted to relaunch apps I was using when I shut down or review the documents I was examining when I quit … Continue reading

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The Boss

I have great respect for my children’s taste in music. My son in particular has interesting taste and I attribute this partly to his profession. He is a video editor, but sometimes selects music to put behind the video content … Continue reading

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Twitter expands into Posterous Space

Hi Mark, I’m thrilled to announce that Posterous has been acquired by Twitter! The opportunities in front of Twitter are exciting, and we couldn’t be happier to bring our technology and expertise to hundreds of millions of users around the … Continue reading

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ND Teaching Opportunities

We are on Spring break and there seems to be a different reaction when telling folks that we are from North Dakota. It used to be that there was some comment on the weather. Now people comment on oil. I … Continue reading

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