Monthly Archives: January 2011

Bummer – Hulu and Boxee Split

Bummer – after I “lightly hacked” my AppleTV (that is the phrase they use) Hulu no longer will offer content via Boxee. If you are not into strange tech company names, disregard this post. I wonder how one unhacks an … Continue reading

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Copyright – Consider These Sources

A useful slideshare presentation Wesley Fryer offers information on copyright (note he suggests that legal advice may be necessary – everyone says this). The intent is to help educators understand copyright and realize they have rights as educators. It is … Continue reading

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Death of News

the real problem isn’t the impending death of newspapers, but the impending death of news This analysis of the decline of newspapers (Salon) argues that losing access to newspapers offers more of a problem than the lose of the familiar … Continue reading

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KIPP – something new?

Eventually, Levin and Feinberg cobble together a college-prep program that boasts longer hours, days, weeks and years — kids stay in school until 5 p.m. most days, attend class every other Saturday and spend weeks in summer school; it demands … Continue reading

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Note to Google – re footnotes

I do a lot of work in Google docs and I like some of your new features. It would be very helpful to me if you would offer a second option to “Insert footnotes”. Many academics do not include footnotes, … Continue reading

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Late to the cloud

I have been an Apple fan since there was an Apple. I am beginning to have an issue with their approach which seems limited to great hardware and great software. They are basically “late to the cloud”. Here are a … Continue reading

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