cerebral odd jobs

Eudora is a great note taking, journal/diary, correspondence, info management, etc. I have the last Windows version (Eudora 7) which also has a built-in X1 file searcher. Eudora doesn’t have the ability to quickly add a reminder, unlike Outlook or other PIMs (personal information managers. Lotus Organizer was also great but no longer published). However, [...]

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from BoingBoing.com Creative Commons for education
Cory Doctorow: Today Creative Commons announced ccLearn, a new division devoted to promoting the use of freely copyable materials for classrooms and education.
Our mission is to minimize barriers to sharing and reuse of educational materials — legal barriers, technical barriers, and social barriers.
* With legal barriers, we advocate [...]

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[updated] 2008-03-20
At one point there were few teachers from the tundra regions writing blogs. Few enough I could put them all into one RSS feed mix in the sidebar as I came across them.

[Kangirsuk, Nunivik] Not Obscure (John Higham from Nunavik, Canada) http://notobscure.com/
[Kongiganak, Toksook Bay, Tununak] Alaska The View From Up Here, (Brett Stirling [...]

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from Bringing Health Information to Communities, March 27, 2007

http://library.med.utah.edu/blogs/BHIC/archives/cat_websites.html#002196

March 30: Stop Cyberbullying Day
Andy Carvin, blogger on PBS’s learning.now http://www.pbs.org/teachers/learning.now/ has declared March 30th as Stop Cyberbullying Day.
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/learning.now/2007/03/march_30_participate_in_stop_c_1.html The MedlinePlus Health Topic Bullying http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/bullying.html includes links to cyberbullying and online harrassment.
Social Bookmarks:

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1] Posted: 2006-10-29 I think people should examine why they want a blog before leaping into the blogosphere.
Some of the questions to ask are already in the forum.
Also, be very aware of the distinctions between commercial blogging platforms and volunteer (typepad and blogger vs wordpress, for example.)
Dario.be is a volunteer platform; small number of users; [...]

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The cool cat at //engtech has created a nifty work-around for edublogses and other WPMU sites to generate a “tag cloud” of most used categories in your blog.
Tag Cloud Generator for Wordpress.com
http://engtech.wordpress.com/tools/wordpress/tag_cloud_generator_for_wordpress/
Here are the results here–
AI/AN   Alaska   blogging blogginess   edublogs.org   in process   organizational culture   public draft   sciencing   [...]

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