Friday Varia and Quick Hits
Here’s a gaggle of quick hits and varia on a cool, spring day in North Dakota.
I’ve started trying to use Evernote after seeing so many of my colleagues use it in various meetings. So the quick hits and varia for this blog are being brought to you via my Evernote account. As readers of this blog probably know I am a Zotero fanboy, but about 6 months ago I started browsing mostly with Chrome and abandoned Firefox where my Zotero plug-in lives. Since Zotero is not available as a Chrome plug in and I was never able to get the stand-alone version working very effectively, I began to get into bad habits in how I organized the little artifacts from my web wandering. Evernote and Chrome as going to help me fix that.
The only downside to Evernote is that it doesn’t work seamlessly with my iPad. The Safari browser on the iPad does not support an Evernote plug-in or bookmarklet. But it does support a Read It Later bookmarklet and it is possible to export something from Read It Later to Evernote. This is not a convenient workaround. (And let me know if anyone knows a better way to make this happen!)
iPads are making in roads across college campuses. Even my most PC centric buddy, Scott Moore, finally succumbed to the hype and got himself one of them-there iPads. But some places have begun to realize that the iPad is not the best for everyone on every campus. As this recent piece in the Chronicle concludes (and some of the good comments on a recent blog post on the future of computer labs), the idea of one device that is suitable for every students and program seems increasingly far fetched.
Some other quick hits:
So, my newest favorite weather page is WeatherSpark. So much data!
It’s been a up and down week for Twitter, but these numbers released on the service’s 5 anniversary sure are impressive.
And speaking of social media, it’s cool that the New York Times will look at museums and social media in their special museums section. For a first reaction, check out Nina Simon’s Museum 2.0 blog. (I’ve just discovered her book, The Participatory Museum, and look forward to perusing it.).
I’m not sure whether it’s ironic or not that the New York Times will focus on museums and social media in the same month that they’ll put up their controversial pay wall. David Winer’s take on these things is always great.
What I’m reading: M. Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge. (for class).
What I’m listening to: Scritti Politti, Cupid and Psyche ’85.
And here’s my bracket:
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