Steven wants us to keep talking about PowerPoint and its value or lack-of-value as a presentation tool. I read his post while polishing off a PowerPoint presentation for a journalism class.
For some audiences, it’s totally expected that a presenter will use PowerPoint and have handouts, etc. Using PowerPoint for presentations was just as much a [...]
Google launched Google Mars, a mapping tool for the Red Planet a few weeks ago. I wish this mapping service would have been around when I did my thesis on Mars.
Before Gary Price began his talk on Wednesday, he showed me some really cool mapping services. I use Internet mapping services very often and haven’t really been happy with them, so I appreciate learning about new and nifty sites.
One of the things I’ve always wished for is a service that distinguishes between walking and [...]
At Thursday’s blog meeting, Critt Jarvis gave a terrific tour of and introduction to Newsvine, a very sophisticated community news portal. Erica put a lot in the notes, so I won’t go into detail here. What makes this site so special is the ability for people to submit items (kinda like blogging), tag them, view [...]
I’m giving up–at least momentarily–on my two main aggregators. One is a desktop client on my, well, desktop, which happens to be on a laptop that’s out of commission. The Manila aggregator attached to this blog hasn’t been working well for me for a while. It hasn’t updated in a few days. After another blogger [...]
Forget blogosphere buzz. When a friend tells me one of his projects makes Newsweek International (OK, well, it’s just a mention), I get a little excited for him. Congrats, Shimon and Voo2do!
(By the way, if anyone has a spare copy of the January 30 Newsweek International they can part with, Shimon hasn’t been able to [...]
There’s this site called Ookles that says it’s Scott Johnson’s next project, along with some other folks. We know he’s a serial entrepreneur. What’s he going to do post-Feedster?
They’re collecting e-mail addresses of people who’d like to know. On February 28, select users in a few geographic areas will get a sneak peek. Then, after [...]
Cambridge, Massachusetts, and MIT are partnering to provide free wireless access to the city, according to an Associated Press story.
I’ve since heard rumors that this news is not true, but I haven’t been able to verify or unverify it through online sources. Does anyone know anything about it?
This map of the world flashing news items reminds me a lot of the World as a Blog, which relates blog posts to their geographic coordinates. What’s Up?’s time zone markings are really handy.
(Is anyone else in the wrong time zone/geographic area? I wonder why I am, especially since the time and GMT -5 [...]
Steve Garfield, a video blogger who attends blog group meetings, produced a news story about an Internet pulse point on Newbury Street in Boston for Rocketboom, a popular video news blog (vlog). Are these high-powered points of Internet connectivity going to be the next big thing? Find out.