Hiptop Nation...

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Hiptop Nation A community weblog for those posting from a Danger Hiptop. Very easy to post, just send an email message from your Hiptop/Sidekick (Hiptop is the name that Danger calls their product, Sidekick is the name that T-Mobile markets it under) to a specific address and the result is a post to the Hiptop Nation web site... Individual posts can be organized into a specific user weblog. An RSS feed is also produced (see example in the right sidebar).

3 Degrees...

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Geek.com Geek News - Microsoft's Threedegrees IM software The software, called Threedegrees, aims to create peer-to-peer social groups of up to 10 people. This allows for groups of friends to communicate with one another in their own groups so they can chat, share photos and video, and listen to music together.

I'm afraid my daughters will find out about this... :-) The article in Newsweek made an interesting point... that normally Microsoft creates productivity software... This stuff is designed to enable you to goof off...

Voice Box for OS X

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Now _this_ is brill. Voice Box is a fully-scriptable speach app for OS X. It sports aiff file output; listen-as-you-type; control over voice, pitch, and rate; and can even grab RSS feeds off the Net and read them to you in the voice of your choice. I see great applicability to Home Web Radio, interspersing tunes with up-to-the-minute news and weblog feeds.[via cory] [raelity bytes]

I downloaded the demo and it works great... The audioblog ideas are really very interesting. Lots of possibilities.... The link below is to an mp3 of the application reading part of my RSS feed... The demo only allows for a 9 second recording...

Lauer RSS Feed

Audblog....

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audblog : sounding out
audblog is a service that provides bloggers (so far just Blogger) with the ability to post audio to their blogs from any phone. [by way of...Scripting News]

Kind of interesting, is pretty nice that you can post from a phone... Here is the result....
Powered by audblogaudblog audio post

The Macromedia Flash tool that is being used currently by Pam's students and tools such as QuickVoice also allow you to create files that can be linked to from your blog...

Using QuickVoice, I recorded and converted this mp3 file: My son Fernando talking while looking out the window of an airplane...

QuickVoice can also be used along with other tools, to create audio post cards as outlined in this O'Reilly article by Derrick Story.

Munich Subway

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subway_sm.jpgJust back from a trip to Germany. Took a video clip of the Munich subway on the way out to the airport. Munich has a great subway system... very easy to get around. Click the image above for a video clip... The clip was taken with a Canon S45... a great camera...

A Tale of Three Cities...

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The Seattle Times: Pacific Northwest Magazine GO BY TRAIN pleads one.
GO BY STREETCAR urges the other.

Something tells me we're not in Seattle anymore, Toto. No, we're in Portland, American headquarters of the "New Urbanism" philosophy that touts neighborhood density, walking and transit over the car. Portland is doing, almost routinely, what Seattle keeps dreaming and arguing about.

I have been traveling for a few weeks... came across this article about Portland and am now even more homesick... :-) Is always nice when someone confirms what you already knew to be true... now if we only could fund our schools properly...

Weblogs in Education Article...

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techLEARNING.com | Technology & Learning - The Resource for Education Technology Leaders Educators have also been using the Web to publish course descriptions and syllabi, while building professional development communities dedicated to sharing best practices.Publishing student writing, however, has yet to gain widespread adoption in middle and high school English classes...

This is a great article explaining the background of weblogs, current uses in education, and more importantly potential uses by teachers and students. [by way of...weblogged News]

T-Mobile Sidekick now FREE at Amazon

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The T-Mobile Sidekick mobile communicator, (also known as the Danger Hiptop), which you can use for email, instant messenger, and to surf the Web, is now free at Amazon after rebate and new service activation. Comes with a digital camera attachment as well. [by way of...Gizmodo]

Okay, now I'm thinking I've got to get one of these... Of course it most likely means that the color version is about to ship...

Recommended Reading from Adrian Holovaty

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Holovaty.com Adrian Holovaty writes a weblog that focuses on the technical aspects of news/information Web sites. He always points to something interesting. Today I found a link to a presentation given by Marc Rettig called Design For Small Screens presentation Am looking into this because we plan to get a set of Wi-Fi enabled PDAs for use at Buckman Elementary... Some sites, such as Wired, have redesigned their sites utilizing CSS that displays well on computers and PDAs. As the prices of these devices fall, and as their feature sets grow, I see PDAs and other such devices as having a greater role in the school environment.

MovableType Plugin Directory

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MT Plugin Directory Movable Type offers the option to create plugins for the program. These plugins allow for new external outputs, and thanks to a great group of plugin authors, we have a wide variety of things to try out! This plugin directory lists all known MT plugins and provide information for using thems.

One stop shopping for MT plugins... Also noted today an update to Movable Type to version 2.6 and the announcement of a Pro version coming this summer...