Twitter Updates for 2007-04-14

• @kdumont: Season starts for us tomorrow too... #
• Goodnight from Portland... #
• morning from portland... #
• Heading over for son's baseball pictures. Of course its raining #
• Pictures over, games rained out... Baseball in Oregon in the spring :-) #
• heading to see the Lewis Marimba band perform... #
• At school with my kids... They are playing around with GarageBand #
• @dnorman: Yeah, but then on the next update to Google Earth it would be easy to spot your house... #

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Flickr: Photos from The Oregonian

Matt Haughey notes that our local paper, The Oregonian, has recently started publishing photographs that appear in the paper on Flickr. They take advantage of tags including geotags.

Technorati Tags: flickr, The Oregonian, Matt Haughey

Twitter Updates for 2007-04-13

• Reading: "Sudden departure of Jefferson High School's principal raises questions | KATU - Portland, Oregon | Local & Regional" (http://tinyu #
• Heading to bed in Portland... #
• Good morning from Portland, No students today, teacher development day... #
• Coffee and the paper... #
• Looking for a lost powercord... #
• At: "Tony Jamesbarry'" (http://tinyurl.com/2jeqov) #
• At: "Tony Jamesbarry's music education workshop at Lewis..." (http://tinyurl.com/2jeqov) #
• @timwilson: Travel well Mr. Wilson... #
• heading to lunch #
• Sitting in on Tony Jamesbarry's afternoon workshop... http://tinyurl.com/2y8333 #

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Twitter Updates for 2007-04-12

• Reading: "Kurt Vonnegut Is Dead at 84; Caught Imagination of His Age - New York Times" (http://tinyurl.com/2c7s3x) #
• Morning from Portland.... running late #
• Classroom observation in Room 8. 1st grade literacy #
• Classroom observation, Grade 4, math #
• heading to lunch duty... #

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Timeline Widget

The Universal Timeline generator allows you to take an Atom or RSS feed and easily create a Javascript Timeline widget based on the MIT Simile project. This can then be embedded in a web page as an iframe. The example above is of my RSS feed for this weblog. So basically anything that you can generate with an RSS feed can be displayed in a timeline format.

Technorati Tags: timeline, simile

Twitter Updates for 2007-04-11

• Getting ready to head over to my son's baseball game. Hope his team gets off to a better start than the Cubs... #
• Time to take the dog out... #
• Just finished our first Run For The Arts of the day... #
• Twaiku seems to crash Quicksilver from time to time... #
• Trying to connect with Bud on yackpack... #
• Looking at: "TwitterEarth" (http://tinyurl.com/yvdam7) #
• On crosswalk duty #

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Twitter Updates for 2007-04-10

• Heading home... unlike Utecht, I have a 7 minute commute... :-) #
• Reading: "Technology Review: Is Twitter Here to Stay?" (http://tinyurl.com/3y85x3) #
• Listening to Patty Griffin and doing budget work... #
• Morning from Portland... #
• Stoped for coffee #
• Simultaneous posting to Jaiku and Twitter using the Twaiku script and Quicksilver on Mac OS X... I love Quicksilver #
• Twaiku script http://www.bwana.org/2007/04/09/twaiku/ #
• Back from lunch duty... just discovered that our district filter now blocks Lifehacker... you know, hackers... :-) geeze #
• Getting ready for a staff meeting. Topic: Medication administration ... pretty exciting stuff... #

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Darfur Layer in Google Earth

Ogle Earth has a post about new Google Earth layers from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum that document the genocide in Darfur. It is a fascinating use of Google Earth and includes placemarks that indicate burned villages, refugee camps, photographs, and witness testimonies. The best type of educational software...

Technorati Tags: Darfur, Google Earth

Twitter Updates for 2007-04-09

• Watching bosox vs. Txs and having my son explain club penguin #
• Heading to work a bit later than usual this morning, have a dental appointment... #
• Getting ready for classroom observations... #
• On Lunch duty... #

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More Jaiku

Jaiku: Over the weekend I played around a bit more with Jaiku, the presence monitoring tool similar to Twitter, but with quite a few more features. One nice aspect is that you can combine Twitter like updates with other types of data such as your Flickr photostream, RSS feeds and even your Twitter posts. So with Jaiku, you can combine elements of your online presence into a single stream. This also generates an RSS feed, so you can easily combine the elements of your online presence and share it with others. They have an API and already have Quicksilver hooks. I've added an RSS Feed of my Jaiku stream to the sidebar. I'm having a bit of trouble getting it to display (it could be theme relates, not sure...) so have also used the old standby Feed2JS and also threw that in the sidebar too. Joi Ito has a post that explains the differences between the two tools pretty well. Another interesting take on Jaiku comes from Ton.