I am hopelessly addicted to Babble. I've always been a bit of a Boggle fan, but having a single puzzle every day that I can log into from any web browser and keep open in the background as I do my work is enough to keep me coming
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http://www.lifehacker.com/software/business/fight-the-corporate-bull-with-bullfighter-160740.php Bullfighter is a Microsoft Office plugin that highlights excess jargon and marketing speak. If only we could get a version that worked with people as well as documents ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4816118.stm A very simple way to see if your website adheres to disability law: get someone disabled to test it. A genius business idea and incredibly important in public service web design.
This should be of interest to anyone dabbling in Elgg programming. IBM have put together a recommended reading list for PHP programmers, including suggestions for development environments and server stacks to run your scripts against. There are some interesting integration tutorials linked, as well; if anyone wants to create an
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There's been a kerfuffle in the wider blogosphere lately about Dave Winer's decision to quit blogging. Basically, there seem to be a bunch of people who can't live without reading Scripting News every single day, and are pretty much begging him to reconsider. Michael
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That said, here are some web 2.0 services that I think might have their uses in education. As ever, I'm not advocating the use of centralised, commercial applications in education; I believe localised open source software most often provides the best solutions. However, the approaches below have
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Lately I've been feeling more and more jaded about the web. It's not that it's not an amazing invention that's changing the world - clearly it is, and we've only begun to glimpse the possibilities of a connected world. The
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/11/dabbledb-online-app-building-for-everyone/ Create web-based database apps with no programming whatsoever. Nice.
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I'm going to break with my usual programming to announce my love for the Magnetic Fields album 69 Love Songs. Normally they're not my thing, and I haven't warmed to any of their other albums, but every single track on this one is just
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True wireless access to the Internet may be the next frontier in the information revolution. Until recently, wireless access has been purely for the home or business: the connection still ends up at a wireless router, which in turn is connected to the Internet via a wire. We keep ours
Here's something I've been thinking about for a while, that I'd like to throw out to the wider community. There doesn't seem to be one place for us all to read about new announcements in the e-learning space or discuss the implications
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Gasp! LiveJournal is to introduce advertising. This wouldn't be such a big issue had they not been insisting they would never introduce advertising for the seven years they've been around. This is another illustration of the difficulties of funding an open source project. LJ has been