Do you know about shrinkage?

Apr 05

I switched over to Google Reader from Bloglines about 2 months ago and am basically pleased. I’ve noticed recently that my feed has no formatting in Google Reader. Bloglines as well, so I guess it’s a feed issue rather than the reader. My posts look brutal and here I go to such lengths to pretty them up. I tried deactivating plugins but didn’t see...

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Podcast 26 Frustrations with Assessment

Apr 05

Haven’t done a podcast with just me yakkin’ for a while. Tried using GCast on Steve D.‘s recommendation. Not sure it’s for me as it wants to build a player for me rather than just give me an mp3 file I can embed with my own built in player. So thumbs down to GCast, unless their helpdesk lets me know how to link directly to the mp3. Update1:...

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Google just keeps getting better

Apr 05

Anyone who has read my blog regularly knows how I feel about Google Earth. It is all that and more. I spent an hour today listening to Hall Davidson and learned a few more tricks to add to the toolbox. Just now I found out that Google Maps now offers online mashups that are incredibly easy to create.  Made this map in about a minute and easily embedded flickr...

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