Monday, March 30, 2009

Collaborative writing: etherpad.com  

looks kinda neat. No sign up needed. -- haven't tried it yet.

Transformative Works and Cultures : Vol 2 (2009)

Vol 2 (2009)
Journal issue dedicated to:

Games as Transformative Works

Looks pretty cool

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

New 6th to 12th grade public school that uses gaming methods to teach.

link

Monday, March 23, 2009

Video Game Grad Programs Open Up The Industry



NPR


Wednesday, March 18, 2009

National Center for the History or Electronic Games: 
http://www.ncheg.org/

Friday, March 13, 2009

Google Voice

Google is only a few week away from launching it's new free service called 'Google Speak'.

It boasts a lot of cool features like...

- Listening in on calls before you answer them
- Simultanius redirection of any call to multiple numbers allowing one shared number for work, home, and/or cell.
-Cheap long distance (like 2 cents a min to China)
-Free voice mail (even get your voice mails transcribed instantly and sent as text messages)

https://www.google.com/voice/about

Most Useful Bookmarklets

Guide to Most Useful Bookmarklets for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, etc.
I have been reading about bookmarklets a bit lately. They seem to travel better than add-ons or extensions.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

The Electric Company

The Electric Company - Videos
The new re-imagined Electric Company has begun on PBS. I think it looks pretty good. Check out some of the videos. I particularly like the Captain Cluck animation.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Readability

Readability is a bookmarklet that strips out nasty advertising and other distracting content from a page to make it readable with a single click.