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Consultancy: Bringing a Beautiful Voice into Internet View

Over a year ago I wrote about my friend Neva: I wasn’t living in Long Beach when Melissa Etheridge made her breakthrough playing locally at a club called Que Sera on 7th Street (funny that her wikipedia article doesn’t mention Que Sera), but every time I come out and watch Neva I think I’m seeing …

Experimenting with Second Life in Education

Just “went” to a “screening” in Second Life of video projects created by Full Sail students. I’m intrigued by the idea of hanging around and chatting with friends and students in the virtual space and amused at how one of my my WoW loving coworkers belittles the experience. This was the first time I’d been …

The iPhone Hype Continues – Leo Does 24-Hour Marathon

One cool thing with this year’s iPhone release is that I can follow it live on the web, especially iPhone coverage by Leo Laporte on his TWiTlive stream. This year Leo decided to stay “on-the-air” for over 24-hours, beginning with the release of the iPhone in New Zealand around 1PM PST and ending with the …

Remembering the 1st Time (On the Eve of the 2nd Coming)

Ah, remember the magic of last year at the first iPhone event? It’s probably a sign of my own emotional instability that I’m nostalgic and emotional about such odd things. But on the eve of the possible second coming of the iPhone I thought it’d be fun to revisit that special moment June 29th, 2007. …

We Few Tech-Pioneers

Tech-buddy, Greg text-messaged me today complaining that our favorite podcast empire, TWIT, is all about the toys and business of tech but has nothing in the education space. I offered my usual snotty response: “Well, ED tends to act like a walled garden, I’m probably the only one I know to twitter DURING class.” To …