• PowerPoint Remix Rant

    Originally posted on Hapgood: I’m just back from some time off, and I’m feeling too lazy to finish reading the McGraw-Hill/Microsoft Open Learning announcement. Maybe someone could read it for me? I can tell you where I stopped reading though. It was where I saw that the software was implemented as a “PowerPoint Plugin”. Now,…

  • Aframe Puts Professional Video Editing In The Cloud

    If Adobe can do something like this and keep all the files in situ on a server hard drive “somewhere” on the Internet, there’s no telling what’s possible. I waste more of my professional hours copying stuff from place to place over network connections. Keeping everything in one container and being able to edit and…

  • Adventures in annotation

    Something/Anything that is as flexible and extensible as this, in ways you cannot always imagine, that is powerful. Kudos, Bravo one and all. At the same time it reminds me a little of the Google Waves goal, of not using silo-ized message stores like Email for collaborative work. And at the same time Waves wasn’t…

  • IT Can’t Ignore the Video Surveillance Data Explosion

    Originally posted on StorageSwiss.com – The Home of Storage Switzerland: IT professionals are simultaneously being pulled in multiple directions. For most, data center management is more like triage than a well-engineered series of processes. As a result, IT managers and CIOs are very careful about which projects they “own”, which ones they advise on, and…

  • How To Make Pizza At Home That Won’t Be Horrible

    Being a fan of pizza and a loyal adherent to America’s Test Kitchen, I will be curious to read up more on this article. Always look for some tips and tricks that will cost my game a bit.

  • The 33 1/3 New Author Q&A: Kembrew McLeod

    Originally posted on 333sound: Today, we’re happy to bring you a Q&A with Kembrew McLeod, who will be writing the upcoming 33 1/3 on Blondie’s Parallel Lines ! Tell us a bit about yourself in an extended author biography. I’m a writer, documentary filmmaker, university professor, media prankster, spazz dancer, children’s music producer, and all…

  • Moving to Tokyo? Real estate agent picks five best neighborhoods for single residents

    I’m happy to see at the end of the article mention is made of Koiwa. Love that neighborhood.

  • Starting from the students to build engaging computing courses for non-CS majors: Response to Goldweber and Walker

    Originally posted on Computing Ed Research – Guzdial's Take: Michael Goldweber and Henry Walker responded to my blog posts (here in Blog@CACM and here in this blog) in the Inroad blog (see article here). My thanks to them for taking the time to respond to me. I found their comments especially valuable in helping to…

  • Internet privacy, funded by spooks: A brief history of the BBG

    Voice of America and all those propagandist triumphalist government programs are funded by us to the tune of $725M/year. That’s a lot of money.

  • Our Japanese staff members pick the top places in Japan they’d like to visit again someday