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Audience Research & Development – Media 2.0 Intel with Terry Heaton and Steve Safran
“Blogs vs. news. The web vs. print. The “vs.” supposes that there are two choices, and it is the notion that we need a “vs.” that is one of the biggest reasons why traditional media and new media aren’t performing nearly as well as they could.” (tags: tidbits+fodder broadcast tv psychology language human+nature conversation events context)

Fasterfox – Performance and network tweaks for Firefox.
This has definitely improved the speed of firfox’s response for me. “Fasterfox – performance and network tweaks for Firefox.” (tags: tools productivity)

Top 10 Firefox extensions to avoid (Computerworld)
Another view: “While your system is idle, Fasterfox silently starts following links and downloading destination pages. If you then decide to click on one of these links, the page is already cached. Nice for you, but an incredible waste of bandwidth” (tags: tools controversy problems productivity)

10 Firefox addons to avoid? ~ usrbingeek’s musings
Usrbingeek second-guesses Computerworld’s list of Firefox add-ons to avoid. (tags: tools disagreement)

Flow vs. Structure: Escaping From the Document & Directory Jungle | Zoli’s Blog
“on the web: a document is no longer a file of a specific type, generated by a specific application: it’s a logical unit, defined by context, which weaves together content created by several applications.” (tags: collaboration arranging+ideas wikis tools document+management analysis)

Schneier on Security: Conversation with Kip Hawley, TSA Administrator (Part 1)
“Most of our meeting was off the record. I told him to be more transparent, and stop ducking the hard questions. He said that he wanted to do that. Having a blog himself didn’t work within the bureaucracy. This e-mail interview, was one suggestion.” (tags: tidbits+fodder interviewing journalism blogging government freedom security privacy politics e-mail)

Center for Media Research – Daily Brief
Tom Abate: “This estimate seems to include the raw number of those who upload photos/videos to photo- video-sharing sites. I wonder if those are discrete individuals or whether one person posting to Flickr and YouTube gets counted twice.” (tags: statistics research participatory+media participation tidbits+fodder)

MeeTimer – Log your time on the Web
“Records where you spend your time online. Group websites into activities (e.g. Facebook = procrastination; Gmail = communication) so you can make sense of where your time is going. Finally, it accumulates time spent on a site over the course of a day.” (tags: tools productivity psychology human+nature)

Integrating ICT into the MFL classroom:: RSS v Feedwhip
“Amy Gahran from Capture the Conversation has done a great job in trying to persuade me of the virtues of sticking exclusively to one reader with her detailed screencast Setting Up Google Alerts.” (tags: mycoverage feeds tools)

Feedwhip
“create RSS feeds and get email updates for your favorite web sites.” (tags: feeds tools e-mail)

Zoho Notebook
“Create different types of content. Aggregate your information in one place. Collaboration: Share a whole book, page or just an object on a page by granting read/write permissions. Version control: keep track of changes.” (tags: collaboration tools notetaking sharing aggregation privacy arranging+ideas)

» Better living without MS Office | The Apple Core | ZDNet.com
“Many Mac users can find acceptable substitutes for Office. Or they can purchase superior programs that still offer enough Office compatibility to get by.” (tags: tools mac document+management)