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Sips from the firehose
A site that attempts to render the internet down into one easy-to consume mental beverage.
Ukrainian Professors Play with New iPad 2s
...in the courtyard of the Institute for the Digital Future of Journalism I've got great video of everyone having a blast, experimenting with the new guerilla-style video production tactics I've been teaching them -- I showed them how to use the front and rear-facing...
Testing Storify with my Class in Kiev
Yet again, I use this blog as something of a mad scientist's laboratory, to show off how to use the latest social media tools. This time around, it's the social media aggregator/publisher Storify. [<a...
JetPack: the Always-Open University Library that Fits in Your Pocket
...but without the annoying biology grad student who is using himself as a human guinea pig to see if it's possible to survive for 3 months on a diet of only beer, vitamin pills and broccoli florets. I'd love to say that this is it, we've found the perfect...
…in which Carbonite causes the Blue Screen of Death … on a Mac!
A dark line descended over my Mac and all the programs froze. Then the message came up on the screen, telling me that I should push the "Power" button on the front of the Mac, hold it down until the whole machine turned off, and basically do a hard reboot. Not. Good....
Stephen King’s Characters (as interpreted by Bulgarian fan artist)
Stephen King posters, originally uploaded by Wordyeti. All your favorites are there ... the "It" clown, little Drew Barry more starting the fire, The Gunslinger, the creepy little monkey with his cymbals. I'm not sure if the pix here were meant to be some sort of...
A Kind of Symmetry
I'm in Sofia, Bulgaria, training journalists & others on how to use the various tools of New Media. As part of the trip, we went into the mountains, to an ancient monastery. Yeah, I know -- a trip up winding paths to a crumbling castle ... bring your garlic,...