Hola and thanks for reading.
FYI I’ve decided to switch up my online identity and therefore, this blog is dying … to be reborn in a remix mashup of all my blogs together at last in one spot. All new posts will live at Sparkplug 9.
Thanks so much for reading, and please join the party at […]

. . . Excel help than Excel.
Every single time I need to find out how to do something in Excel, I try to figure it out from Excel help. Search usually gets me nowhere, but sometimes gives me a clue what I should actually be searching on. But the help I usually get is […]

If Scoble says it’s good, it’s usually worth a look. So when Scoble says that ClipBlast is a “killer video search engine”, I thought I’d check it out.
One thing I’ve been looking for lately is video footage of Alexander Ovechkin’s lying-on-the-ice backhander goal from last year. We’re talking ice-hockey, in case you’re wondering.
Here’s what ClipBlast […]

Scoble’s interview with the Google program manager:

This is huge … an environment for building applications locally that will sync globally. I can see thousands of major and niche applications for this.
Tags: google, gears, offline, sync, scoble, john koetsier

Text Link Ads just informed me that (yay!) they’ve sold another ad for me. (You can see ‘em down near the bottom of the right column under, appropriately, text link ads.)
This is cool, because it pays the hosting bills and because I make more from TLA than I ever did from Google AdWords. It’s even […]

Whoa … I see Chris DiBona of Google’s open source program is helping NASA move 120 terabytes of data … all the data that the Hubble space telescope has ever collected.
Now that’s a LOT of data. Very cool. Hope they don’t lose any spare terabytes here or there.
But what’s with this pic? Is it Chris […]

I just saw the story on super-close Google map zooms and checked it out.
All you have to do is:

Select a location and switch to satellite view
Zoom in as far as you can, and click “link to this page” at the top right
Now replace the “z” parameter in the URL with a higher value, e.g. 20, […]

Apparently, gadgets are huge:

Google Map - 4,861,113
PacMan v2.0 - 8,114,344
DIGG - 3,228,599
My IP - 1,063,244
Wikipedia - 27,314,972
Countdown - 2,076,028
Online Second Life Friends - 1,396
Free Sudoku Puzzles - 4,450,349
Memory Game - 647,151

In that spirit … have some retro fun:

March 22 note added:
There was a DMCA takedown notice filed against this post a few days back. I’ve since spoken to the owner of Motiono.com and we’ve resolved our differences amicably.

On a bit of an edtech kick lately. Noticed these today and wanted to save them:

E-learning infiltrates the classroom
Gradefix (”the easiest way to get good grades”)
Google for educators
stu.dicio.us (collaborative classnotes sharing)
Digital printing press

Tags: education, technology, edtech, john koetsier