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Matt Haughey notes that our local paper, The Oregonian, has recently started publishing photographs that appear in the paper on Flickr. They take advantage of tags including geotags.
Technorati Tags: flickr, The Oregonian, Matt Haughey
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The Universal Timeline generator allows you to take an Atom or RSS feed and easily create a Javascript Timeline widget based on the MIT Simile project. This can then be embedded in a web page as an iframe. The example above is of my RSS feed for this weblog. So basically anything that you can generate with an RSS feed can be displayed in a timeline format.
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Ogle Earth has a post about new Google Earth layers from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum that document the genocide in Darfur. It is a fascinating use of Google Earth and includes placemarks that indicate burned villages, refugee camps, photographs, and witness testimonies. The best type of educational software...
Technorati Tags: Darfur, Google Earth
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Jaiku: Over the weekend I played around a bit more with Jaiku, the presence monitoring tool similar to Twitter, but with quite a few more features. One nice aspect is that you can combine Twitter like updates with other types of data such as your Flickr photostream, RSS feeds and even your Twitter posts. So with Jaiku, you can combine elements of your online presence into a single stream. This also generates an RSS feed, so you can easily combine the elements of your online presence and share it with others. They have an API and already have Quicksilver hooks. I've added an RSS Feed of my Jaiku stream to the sidebar. I'm having a bit of trouble getting it to display (it could be theme relates, not sure...) so have also used the old standby Feed2JS and also threw that in the sidebar too.
Joi Ito has a post that explains the differences between the two tools pretty well. Another interesting take on Jaiku comes from Ton.
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Scott McLeod has put together a great multi-author weblog over at Leadertalk. It's a place for practicing school administrators to post about their work and the challenges and rewards inherent in that work. For the most part participants are asked to post at least once a month. Scott has asked me to take part and I feel very honored to be associated with the contributors he has gathered together . My first post for Leadertalk deals with school fundraising and can be found here.
Technorati Tags: leadertalk, Scott McLeod
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Twitter Atlas Very nice interface to the Twitter world...
Jaiku Twitter like tool. Has some interesting features including allowing you to combine content from your blogs, del.icio.us and flickr account into your presence stream. You can also add the the RSS feed from your twitter stream...
Shorpy.com is the 100-year-old photography blog that brings our ancestors back, at least to the desktop. The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a boy who worked in an Alabama coal mine near the turn of the century. By way of Kottke.org via Cogdogblog
Google Voice Local Search: Free local 411 calls from Google... I don't recall exactly what my carrier charges, but it is a lot more than free...
Last night Google released a new Google Maps feature called My Maps. They have added some basic editing and annotation tools to the interface so you can create custom maps with lines and polygons. You can also create a KML file for use in Google Earth. Below is a map I quickly created with our new school boundaries.
