Telephia recently released a report on mobile Internet usage. While the subscriber rate is increasing, the access and experience still lags far behind Internet browsing via the computer. According to their research, 34.6m mobile subscribers (presumably just in Europe, US and Canada?) accessed the Internet on their mobile device in June 2006 – up about…
Playing around with iTunes podcasts today, I noticed that iTunes recognizes .pdf file enclosures in podcasts and allows you to add .pdf files to your iTunes Library. I guess this may be old news to some, but it was news to me. Cool idea for distributing class bulletins and notes, turning in assignments, responding to…
I have tried what seems like a million RSS aggregators and keep coming back to Bloglines. It has proven to be an efficient web based solution when I'm on my laptop (that I can also access from any computer when I'm away from home), but it is by far the best option I have come…
Thanks for the heads up from Nancy White at Full Circle OIB – Writely is back! One of my IU group's gave Zohowriter.com a try when it wasn't clear what was happening with Writely after Google gobbled it up, but I found that I prefer the functionality I was excited about the first time I…
I’m not sure the purpose, but I am “claiming” my blog in Technorati! Technorati Profile
As noted in my post last night, the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) was retained by Sakai to evaluate and advise on the Blackboard patent. This morning, Inside Higher Ed ran a post containing responses from Blackboard's general counsel, Matthew Small, about Sakai retaining the SFLC, as well as Blackboard's general desire to work with…
The NOSE points to today's news release from Sakai announcing that the Sakai Foundation has retained the Software Freedom Law Center to evaluate and "advise on legal matters" regarding the Blackboard patent. Indiana University runs Sakai (OnCourse) for my online Master's program, so I will have a bird's eye view as this plays out. The…
I downloaded a trial version of Camtasia and will be doing some side by side comparisons to the Windows Media Encoder. Clearly, Camtasia wins early points for ease of use in a bundled software package. The WM encoder simply captures the file and saves it in .wmv. Then, you have to figure out what to…
Today, I am testing out the (free) Windows Media Encoder as a means of capturing video and audio on my computer screen (kind of a poor woman's Camtasia). Yes, it is Windows only. Overall, the learning curve to get WM encoder going was not too bad. For whatever reason, Microsoft is gearing the software solely…
YouTube was down for a bit today validating the number one reason why I won't put important "stuff" on free third party sides – better for just the "fun" stuff. Therefore, my YouTube video won't appear here for now.