Protected: Trip Report: Everything Else, Part 4, August 2009
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Entries by Brandon Muramatsu
Protected: Trip Report: India, Part 1, August 2009
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Protected: Trip Report: Talis and Folksemantic.com, Part 3, August 2009
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Feature Request for Slideshare
So, I’ve been putting all my new presentations into Slideshare. But as part of the organization kick I’m on, I’d like to put up all of my old slides, or at least selected presentations as well. But I don’t want the presentations from 1997 to show up at the top of my listing either on… Continue Reading Feature Request for Slideshare
As long as I’m ranting…WTB Stable Firefox 3.5
Ok, Firefox 3.5, 3.5.1 and especially 3.5.2 are incredibly unstable on my Mac. I’m running a couple addons which could be causing the problem, but you’d think the Firefox developers are also running Firebug, Web Developer and GreaseMonkey. (Ok I do have two more ScreenGrab and CoolIris running, but hopefully it’s not those that are… Continue Reading As long as I’m ranting…WTB Stable Firefox 3.5
Speaking of DNS Hijacking
Two weeks ago I was in India trying to read CNN from my iPhone. Usually I go to m.cnn.com for the mobile optimized version of their homepage. Either CNN or Apple is using DNS hijacking to redirect me to a “local” site, in my case it was asia.cnn.mlogic.mobi. Um, I got back a “that website… Continue Reading Speaking of DNS Hijacking
Math in Webpages, Part 2.5
I ran into Philip Schatz at OpenEd 2009 in Vancouver. (I met Phil when he came out for the OER Interoperability Sprint we hosted at COSL.) Phil’s doing a NSF fellowship with Connexions at Rice University. Recently, he helped release a really cool feature for Connexions: MathML editing. From Connexions’ Blog, Now you can generate… Continue Reading Math in Webpages, Part 2.5
Police Detail Actually Looks out for me!
Yes, you read that right. There’s a scam practice here in the Boston area of assigning police officers to “watch over” road construction. Much of the time they’re just standing around, or spending a lot of time just talking with the crews (so neither is actually “working”). Today, however, a police officer actually did his… Continue Reading Police Detail Actually Looks out for me!
SpokenMedia at OpenEd09
Here’s the presentation I gave at OpenEd 2009 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Credits: Brandon Muramatsu Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License Cite as: Muramatsu, B. (2009). SpokenMedia: Content, Content Everywhere…What video? Where?: Improving the Discoverability of OER video and audio lectures. Presentation at the Open Education 2009: Vancouver, British… Continue Reading SpokenMedia at OpenEd09
Comcast DNS Hijacking
This post on Comcast’s DNS hijacking at Slashdot came out while I was out of the country. Make sure you opt out! Update: Comcast Domain Helper Opt-Out System subject: Work Completed: Comcast Domain Helper Opt-Out Successful We have completed the work to opt you out of the Comcast Domain Helper service. This change will take… Continue Reading Comcast DNS Hijacking