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As much as I love Mellel I never thought I would say this, but, I have started using another Word Processing program. Never fear Mellel faithful, I have not abandoned Mellel, I have just added another tool to my word processing repitoire.
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I have been thinking a lot lately […]

Something to make all those who teach feel a bit better about their jobs.

This has to be the worst proposed academic legislation ever. I am not kidding either . . .

Here is a list of things from the past week or so that people have sent me or that I have seen while navigating the web that you might perchance find useful.
Gideon who uses the hipster PDA (think stack of note cards) sends along a link to note card templates he has created. You […]

I was wondering how long it would take someone to use the Web to fill this market. Actually I heard someone suggests this a couple years ago. Academic Homes is a website that allows academics to post or find homes for sabbatical, research trips etc. Say you are going away for a […]

I wish someone would have told me this before. Over the course of my lifetime the fractions of a second this will save could add up to potentially years.

I saw this first at Matthew Kirschenbaum’s blog, a simple tool to produce TagClouds from any text. At TagCrowd you can upload a text file or just copy and paste. The site will then produce a TagCloud representing up to 300 of the most common words from the text you choose. This […]

One of the conversations that has been floating around the web lately, was mentioned yesterday on The Chroncile. Apparently the financial future of Wikipedia is less than guaranteed. While I think this is probably a case of Wikipedia trying to raise its giving profile, I am drawn to the end quote in the […]

Charlie Lowe, at Kairosnews has an excellent post on thinking critically about Microsoft Word. I won’t try to summarize it, it is too well written for that. Instead I will just say if you are a professor or teacher whose students use Microsoft Word, and especially if it is your job to teach […]

Some Hilarity for your Weekend. What happens when you are a monk used to transcribing scrolls, and you are faced with the “new” technology of the book? Well you call the help desk.
(Thanks Rebecca for sending this.)