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Blogging and RSS in Schools

Blogging and RSS: The “What’s It?” and “How To” of Powerful New Web Tools for Educators – The internet has long been valued by teachers and librarians as a powerful research and communications tool, and in the last 10 years, it has brought about a sea change in the way students find, manage, and use ...

Building a Tivo

PVR Parts Ordered – Since the hardware is now on order, I suppose I have committed myself to building what Catherine has branded “STeVo”, which is my feeble attempt at a constructing a homebrew PVR (personal video recorder). [hatch.org] I’m going to be following this, since I’ve also been thinking about this, and I can’t ...

Onstar and Privacy

OnStar Considered Harmful – “A few weeks ago Slashdot ran an article on the privacy issues in EzPass. Some of the comments referred to other things Big Brother could do with GPS in cars, and now the New York Times has run a column on what else your car is saying about you (free registration ...

Movable Type Upgrade Coming

Movable Type 3.0 – We realize that official news has been scarce over the last 6-9 months. During this time, our company has grown from two people to seven, and we have launched TypePad . Now that we have hired more engineering resources (and we are still looking for more ), we are able to ...

Apple the Unsuccessful Innovator

If He’s So Smart…Steve Jobs, Apple, and the Limits of Innovation – The battle over digital music is just another verse in Apple’s sad song: This astonishingly imaginative company keeps getting muscled out of markets it creates. So what does Apple have to tell us about innovation? [Fast Company] The article’s point is keen: Apple ...