I'm preparing for a presentation on holding virtual office hours and offering helpdesk-type functions, so I wrote A Guide to Synchronous Network Communication Tools, or, Free Stuff You Can Use to Interact With Students Online. It's just a brief overview/handout in which I cover IM, embedded chat, Internet telephone, ...
If you ever create or work with multimedia in linux, you might know how frustrating it can be when you run into a problem. The typical solution involves google and software-specific support lists. I recently encountered a problem that doesn't have an easily-identifiable place to turn to for help, so ...
In preparation for a workshop on instant messaging, here's something of a summary of IM services and clients.
I am disappointed with the article about instant messaging (IM) in the most recent Educause Review (Instant Messaging: IM Online! RU?). The author, Robert Farmer, writes about the different types of IM networks but when giving examples, he fails to mention Jabber, an open (as in open standards) ...
Thanks to Anne for pointing to Yotophoto, which is "now indexing over 100 000 Creative Commons, Public Domain, GNU FDL, and various other free images." There's even a Firefox search plugin. Very nice!
