I attended O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco of March 28-April 1 (approx. 2k attendees). The conference is billed as something that “showcases the latest Web 2.0 business models, development paradigms, products, and design strategies...

Paul Cotton, one of the three chairs of the HTML Working Group at the W3C, recently sent out mail reminding the HTML WG that there were a number of specifications written within other working groups that were issued as Last Call Working Drafts (LCWD)...

Seriously. If you are hoping to find some information, turn around and go somewhere else. At least for now. I'm facing a pretty good dose of writer's block, and I figure that I need to just sit down and start typing. So, this post is nothing more...

N. Rain Noe reports from the AU conferecne via Core 77 : A company called Infinite Z was demonstrating their Z-Space display platform, a 24-inch monitor laid nearly flat on a table. You put on a special pair of glasses--no bulky headset, they're like...

There's been some really interesting developments in the tablet world over the past years. When Bill Gates unveiled the Tablet PC almost a decade ago, Microsoft had high hopes that there'd be a chicken in every pot, if you will. Over the years we rolled...

The Touch & Tablet Accessibility Award is designed to challenge teams to create a new education application that uses touch and tablet technology while expanding the possibilities about how a user interacts with the computer. The application should...

I sure wish I could have seen this in person. The fine folks at ArtRage were showing off a beta version of their upcoming release. ArtRage is a graphic artist software package that uses Tablet PC functionality to enable realistic creation of water colors...

Just a surreal feeling. When I came into the office yesterday, there was mail from a coleague who said I should take a look at the article on CNN , talking about IE9. When I got there, I saw this: And although Microsoft certainly hasn't committed...

The University of Michigan Press, a scholarly, peer-reviewed publication, announced this week that it was planning to move to digital publication. "We believe this helps the university to use leading communication technologies to greatly improve the dissemination...

UNESCO (United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization) has released the Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger , which is intended to raise awareness about language endangerment and the need to safeguard the world’s linguistic diversity...

This is an interesting approach: Let’s face it. Technology moves fast; academia doesn’t. So how do we teach web design and development—a subject that is constantly changing? How do we prepare our students for the real-world and for real-world expectations...

MIT pioneered the gifting of teaching resources years ago, making much of their undergraduate materials available online for the general public. More recently, MIT's Sloan School of Management has released a great deal of case study material. In effect...

I randomly came across a very good article about learning and games, " Public Pedagogy through Video Games ," written by James Paul Gee and Elizabeth Hayes. In it, Gee and Hayes argue that today's large, complex, and multifaceted video games use myriad...

Those whacky, pen-weilding educators over at WIPTE put together a YouTube video in which they proclaim their affinity for my favorite form factor. Me? I'm a Tablet PC and I build Windows! Take a look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNe-zO-shu4

Ooh, another blog! But wait, this one's different. The Windows 7 Blog for Developers . Sounds so, well developer-oriented. And about Windows 7. "Uh, Duh," you may very well say. This one's got at least one member of the ISV Evangelism team in...

Well, the name is official , and it's been announced that it will be shown at PDC and WinHEC. At least according to Mike Nash, and he should know. From Mike's PressPass page : As corporate vice president for Windows Product Management, Mike Nash...

With PDC just a few weeks away, I figure I would toss this out there and see if anyone responds. I'll be at PDC the the afternoon of the 27th, and then all day on the 28th, 29th, and 30th. I'll mostly be spending time in the Windows pavillion and proctoring...

The Engineering Windows 7 blog, or E7 for short, is hosted by the two senior engineering managers for the Windows 7 product, Jon DeVaan and Steven Sinofsky . Jon and Steven, along with members of the engineering team will post, comment, and participate...

The e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection includes online access to at least 100 news scholarly books published by Duke Universty Press in the humanities and social sciences in a calendar year. With the purchase of the current year's titles in the e-Duke...

This article is from PC World : A small start-up company called Inigral is trying to bring back some student-centric functionality to Facebook with one of the first enterprise applications for the social network. The new application is called Schools...

The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) just released a new volume, Tablet PCs in K-12 Education . Here's the description from their site : Despite the many advantages of computer-aided instruction, standard notebook computers...

From Computerworld "BANGALORE -- India is developing a laptop to be sold at $10 that will target higher education applications, a minister of the federal government said today in Delhi. Research on the new low-cost laptop is being carried out...

I try to get your attention in devious ways. But this is worth being tricked. The Windows SDK is looking for feedback about that gigantic product, The Windows SDK . More than feedback, they are dying to know what you'd change and what you want to see...

I'm hoping that the title got someone's attention. Did it? Let me know. I get so little mail these days...... Anyway, I found this a little while ago, and immediately thought to put it up here, but then promptly got busy with SDK topics, reviews, newsletters...

Kenrick, an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Alaska Anchorage, posted a blog entry in which he highlights something he calls "PenAttention." It's a little add-in he created that creates a sort of halo around the pen cursor...