There are so many tools out there to help create screencasts, so which do you choose? Should you go free, or pay more for features? What features do each have, anyway? Don’t worry: help is out there. Take a look at this sites for more information: Five Minute Screencasts — The Super Tool for Science
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Wednesday, Google announced that it was stopping development on Google Wave, the service that was supposed to change how people communicate. As the official Google blog stated, “We were equally jazzed about Google Wave internally, even though we weren’t quite sure how users would respond to this radically different kind of communication…But despite these wins,
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The latest issue of Educause Quarterly has several interesting articles on cloud computing in higher ed, but also this article on libraries and the mobile web. Key points include: Web-enabled smartphones (and their applications) have converged with cloud computing to change the ways people interact with each other and their environments. The academic community has
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I was listening to the radio today and apparently Prince has declared the Internet to be “over“. This is interesting to me as I confess to being somewhat tired of it at times, and I figure this puts me in good company.

I know I am not alone in the intended readership of this blog in being in the interesting position of having a job focused on technological advances and strategy in a fairly conservative industry.