[This is Post 3 for my guest blogging stint at The Des Moines Register.] Archimedes said “Give me a lever long enough and I can move the world.� This week I am blogging about 5 key levers that I think are necessary to move Iowa schools forward and help our graduates survive and thrive in this ne...

This is Minnie, our Dell Inspiron 910 Mini “netbook� that’s the newest addition to our computer family. As the pictures show, she’s a lot smaller than my ThinkPad X61 Tablet. She shipped with 1 GB of RAM and a 16 GB Flash hard drive. She’s running Windows XP Home, Microsoft Office 2007, S...

Will Richardson has yet another post that’s generated a great deal of discussion. This time it’s about the value of Twitter for conversation. Will ponders Twitter’s impact on conversations and suspects that maybe it’s making us lazy… For me it’s about the conversation but, more important...

Tomorrow afternoon, Dustin Luther is featuring Rain City Conversation: a live "call-in" show hosted by Dustin with the Rain City Guide community, including yours truly.  If the shows are anything like Dustin's 4realz Roundtables, the conversations will be recorded and available follow...

Use XQuery from a Java environment - XML data format can be hard to search, but with the fairly recent introduction of the XQuery API, XML searches are now flexible and easy to perform. For Java programmers who work with XML documents using SAX, DOM, JDOM, JAXP, and more, the XQuery API for Pragmati...

(via GOS) With Google Maps or Google Earth. Too bad it won’t be able to show the on the ground coverage like the torch being snatched by a protestor. Link Technorati tags: olympic, torch, tracking...

I must admit, I got caught up in the hype. Yesterday I spent too much of my day glued to TUAW’s live blog from the MacWorld Keynote. The day leading up to the big announcement was even less productive as I sifted through the product leaks and fabricated images of the upcoming MacBook “Hype Bookâ...

We’ve got a vector illustration program, a photo editing application … I suppose it’s time for a page layout program to complete the circle. Scribus is a DTP program just like Quark or InDesign. Sure, some of the advanced features may not be there, but it’s hard to argue with the price tag, ...

Chris Brogan and Clarence Smith Jr. (am I supposed to just say “@chrisbrogan and @dykc” to appear more ‘linked-in’ and whatnot?) just posted a collaborative piece about managing the (many, many) streams of information from sources like Twitter (or any aggregator, like Google ...

[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] I talked my department chair into letting me do a 10–minute technology demonstration to my faculty colleagues at each of our monthly department meetings. My last one was titled ‘Fun With Audio.’ It went something like this… Hi everyone...