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For a while now I've been intercutting this weblog with various discoveries and thoughts regarding new web technologies, be they server or browser based. 2005 was quite exciting for that sort of thing - I'm still in love with Writely, for example, and although they'd
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If you're interested, can hear me being briefly interviewed on WorldBridges as part of today's EdTechTalk. Thanks again to Dave and Jeff for having me, and I promise to sound a little less nervous next time . Listening back through the stream, I wanted to briefly set
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Podzinger lets you search through podcasts, using speech recognition technology of the type used by the CIA. In other words, it creates text transcripts from podcasts and then lets you search them - a feature that has all kinds of uses beyond search. I'm consistently surprised, for example, that
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For those of you looking for a handy way to download RSS feeds and podcasts, as well as a pretty neat email reader, Thunderbird 1.5 is out today. I've used previous versions for my personal mail (although I recently switched to Gmail for convenience) and will upgrade
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The 6 Myths of Creativity.
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There's a mobile TV conference next to my office again - the next big thing is apparently going to be television beamed into our cellphones, for which we will apparently pay good money. I don't know about any of you, but I don't think that&
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As of this evening, when you comment on someone else's weblog post, it's marked as "interesting" and you can keep track of follow-up comments via the 'view your activity' button. I realise people will want to stop keeping track of certain
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If 2005 was the year of Web 2.0, complete with its thousands of crazy-sounding public betas and AJAX-heavy shopping lists, let 2006 be the year of joining things up and applying focus to what has been a chaotic and sometimes bizarre marketplace. This year, if it hasn&
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This is a repost of an email I sent to the development mailing list. It's really good to see some activity in the development community - conversation about developments and different people with different ideas contributing code is, for me, what open source is all about. When we created
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AP: U.S. Teen Runs Off to Iraq by Himself - Yahoo! News A crazy, irresponsible stunt - but I have to confess, I'd love him to stick his interviews up on the web.
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It's nice to get away for a while; a difference of perspective does a world of good for your clarity of thought, and often even your basic happiness. You don't get a much bigger difference of perspective as between Oxford and the San Joaquin Valley (pictured
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Best wishes to everyone this holiday season. We're going to have a great new year - we hope you do too. :)