MERLOT Search Plugin

OK, this is easier than I thought :). Add to Mozilla/Firefox searchbar: MERLOT Moved here.

Maricopa Learning Exchange Search Plugin

My first attempt at a search plugin for Mozilla/Firefox. Clicking the link below should add a search engine for Maricopa Learning Exchange. More learning object repositories to follow. Add to Mozilla/Firefox searchbar: Maricopa Learning Exchange Moved here. Update: Alan reminded me the acronym is MLX, not MLE.

Writing on my PDA

I found a cheap cf wireless card and am now able to get online on my pda. I'm not sure I'd type much on this tiny keyboard, but it could come in handy when I might need/want a small computer but not want to lug around a laptop. BTW, the ...

Just about enough of the IOC

I'm only half-interested in watching the summer olympics. My interest in the event has declined steadily since they allowed professional basketball players to compete--how funny now to see the Dream Team getting tossed about. Then there was the scandal involving extravagant gifts to IOC members. What a surprise. These summer games, ...

Who is the FDA working for?

Dr. Mercola reports on the US Food and Drug Administration's covering up of evidence that suggests that antidepressant drugs administered to children increase the risks of suicidal behavior. The article in the British Medical Journal (the link is broken on Mercola's site) is very disturbing. The published documents confirm ...

Before Wordpress

Kevin compares Wordpress and Blog:CMS. (Kevin, how about enabling comments? :)) While you can run multiple blogs with Wordpress, you have to manually copy and edit a config file and prepend some text to the database table name to manage it. It's not difficult, but the fact that you ...

Where is a wiki features comparison?

Now that I've been playing with wikis, I notice that there are a lot of wiki engines with different features. Where can I go to research the wiki that's best suited to my needs? I have not found a very comprehensive wiki comparison site, so I'm starting my own, using ...

Writing on the Web with mozex

I had heard about mozex before but never tried it until I read Clay Shirky's rants about writing on the Web here, here, and here. Mozex is an extension which allows the user to use external programs for these actions: view page source edit content of textareas (possibly utilizing ...

Don’t nix the baby chicks

I just returned from assisting our president with a presentation and was struck by something another presenter said. An officer from the state extension office was talking about the programs they offer, including one that provides chicken eggs and incubators to classrooms. Not only does the office provide the eggs ...

Support wiki revisited

I have been wanting to respond to James's take on my Blackboard support wiki idea. He writes about the issues he has with an institution taking the initiative to develop help documents: why? Why doesn't the EMS (Evil Management System--my feeble attempt at a google bomb, :P) ...

I hate depending on the Internet so much

Our Internet access has slowed to a crawl on account of W32.Korgo.AD. Normally I wouldn't care so much but lately I'm in research mode. Oh who am I kidding, or course I'd care. Our MIS department sent out an email stating that they'd be visiting each PC over the next three ...

Site redesign

In lieu of doing any real work I have redesigned the look of this blog. The most important change is structural: I moved the sidebar below the content, so if there is a problem loading a feed in the sidebar you will at least be able to see the content ...

Is a specialized wiki the way to go?

Alan asks where the shining examples of successful wikis (aside from Wikipedia) are. True, wikis are hard to get your head around--I'm still struggling with the concept--but should we use them because they are there? Obviously there has to be some need for a collaborative space, and I wonder ...

More Bookmarks RSS Goodness

As I wrote earlier, I've been hacking on Bookmark4u--a web-based bookmarking app that I personally find more useful than Furl--to export bookmarks as RSS. With help from Gavin from the bm4u mailing list, I can now export bookmarks and use the parent folder name as the category/topic ...