Something new I will be doing each week if choosing a standout app of the week for the iOS platform. Some weeks it might just be an iPhone app. Some weeks it might be an able that is a hybrid for both. This week’s app of the week is Reeder. Reeder is a Google Reader client that is available for both the iPhone and the iPad. Reeder is an elegantly designed news reading app that packs many features into it. Read More
Over the summer I worked on creating a technology wiki, in part, for my Virginia Tech Project and Report class, but also for the faculty that I work with. The wiki can be found here: H.B. Whitehorne Technology Wiki. Well, I have finally completed the wiki, after putting in some 150+ hours, and I could not be happier. The wiki was designed with all intents and purposes to be a resource for my fellow teachers to go to. Read More
New York Times has an article published today, entitled How Privacy Vanishes Online, discussing how advanced computer systems can pretty much pinpoint to who and where a query came from. Computer scientists who have more advanced algorithms and tools at their disposal are now able to tell who a user is even if that user has used, in what the user thinks, complete anonymity. Read More
Piggybacking off of my latest entry on social bookmarking, I have decided to add another bookmarking site into my repertoire. Diigo is such a powerful research and knowledge sharing too, especially for my students as a technology teacher. Perhaps the most powerful knowledge-sharing tool, apart fromTwitter. Do not get me wrong, I still love some of the other bookmarking tools out there, such as delicious, but Diigo’s network and groups are extremely intuitive and offer a myriad of features that other bookmarking sites do not. Read More
Jeff Pulver, of pulver.com, makes some interesting points on fora.tv regarding social media, namely explaining how social media is really a change in communication. In many ways I agree with Pulver on how we are at the beginning of communication change and this evolution in communication has yet to be capitalized on and we are not entirely sure which direction it is headed. Thoughts? Link to the video below. Read More
