Procrastadabbler

Time Magazine contains an article about Twitter (wow, big surprise), but what I find interesting about the article is two-fold
1) “the key development with Twitter is how we’ve jury-rigged the system to do things that its creators never dreamed of. In short, the most fascinating thing about Twitter is not what it’s doing to us. [...]

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An amazing orchestra put together through auditions conducted through youtube.

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First let me say, I don’ t own stock in this company.
I just bought myself a solstice gift. It’s this nifty software program called “Papers” for Macs. It organizes your pdf files. I had so many floating around in various places on my harddrive, multiple copies, etc. Even with the Macs search function I often [...]

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I worked hard to keep an open mind at yesterday’s professional development program, and although there were elements of the keynote speaker’s address that I had some issues with, I did learn about a couple of promising participatory applications.
First, what I learned

Diigo: way cool social bookmarking site. You can post webpages, including webbased articles and [...]

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There is a fascinating article in today’s NYTimes about the ways cell/mobile phone technology is being used by impoverished people in third world countries. The reporter explores how having a cell phone number is often the only fixed public identity marker some people may have, that having a cell phone allows people greater access to [...]

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