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Daily Archives: April 5th, 2005

Now I’m Seriously Impressed

Tuesday, April 5, 2005

Go to Google Maps and type in an address or location. Then click on satellite.
I can’t imagine anyone seeing this and not getting stuck here for a while.
If you want to look up a location that is far from the road system you have to find a village, business, or other cataloged reference point with [...]

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Innovation

Tuesday, April 5, 2005

Boing Boing pointed me to an online book, Eric von Hippel’s Democratizing Innovation, in which the author discusses the whys, hows and outcomes of efforts to appropriate and share technological innovations. This interests me because as a teacher I see that many of us tend to do this continually – reinventing the wheel, or at [...]

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RSS Overload

Tuesday, April 5, 2005

Will R. posted this about news searches and RSS. He’s got a lot of information about RSS here. I didn’t know about Yahoo! RSS and am planning to investigate that further. Justin Phister has a Google News RSS generator that allows you to create a feed for any google search term you choose. Careful, [...]

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Results!

Tuesday, April 5, 2005

Experimental results demonstrate that the feature I turned on proves to be the critical piece that was missing. The links now appear on Technorati.
Now I’m dangerous

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Borderland Won’t Ping

Tuesday, April 5, 2005

Technorati tells me that borderland is a tag with no posts. I used the new plugin with the tag, borderland, last night to see if I could change that. But I still get no response on Technorati. In the interests of science, the next few posts might simply serve as experiments while I try to [...]

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