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Category Archives: SXSW

SXSW Interactive: 15 March 2010

SXSWi photos from My Flickr.

SXSW Interactive: 14 March 2010

SXSWi photos from My Flickr.

SXSW Interactive: 13 March 2010

SXSWi photos from My Flickr.

SXSW Interactive: 12 March 2010

SXSWi photos from My Flickr.

Useful Links: Captions, your college on Facebook, Web Education Rocks at SXSW

The Future will be Captioned at the YouTube blog explains their new auto-captioning function, which works only for English videos at this point.
I saw a presentation from the social media team at Central New Mexico Community College last week. They talked about how they interact with the college’s 25,000 students on Facebook. The rule they [...]

How to make a specialized widget of Twitter streams

You can make widgets for your own profile, for a search string, for your favorite tweets, or for one of your Twitter lists. Start at the bottom of your Twitter web page by clicking the “Goodies” link. Select “Widget” and then choose the type of widget based on where you want to display it.
Next you [...]

Backchannel thoughts

Women and the backchannel on This is Rachel Andrew talks about the backchannel comments directed at female presenters at the recent 200th Boagworld podcast. A couple of good ideas were proposed to deal with the issues raised.
The chatroom on the Boagworld show was essentially a backchannel, and similar issues have happened in conference backchannels in [...]

Rewrite your textbook

The New York Times has a story on Textbooks That Professors Can Rewrite Digitally.
Macmillan, one of the five largest publishers of trade books and textbooks, is introducing software called DynamicBooks, which will allow college instructors to edit digital editions of textbooks and customize them for their individual classes.
I’ve had many a textbook that I modified [...]

Useful links: Hide that app, SXSWi, ChatRoulette

Since I stopped posting the monthly summaries of what I have published at eHow, I’ve stopped showing you my occasional photo. Here’s a photo, apropos of nothing, that shows the mystical Sandia Mountains on a cloudy February morning.
How to Hide Farmville (and such) on Facebook. OMG, this is the best thing I’ve learned in ages!
Only [...]

Summary of eHow Articles for March

The bulbs stretched their heads above the ground, the trees bloomed, the grass took on a new green hue, and web geeks from around the world gathered in Austin for SXSW Interactive. Amid all those distractions, here’s what I wrote on eHow in March. More . . .