By Katherine Boehret
Some fascinating results can be produced when you scour the Internet using a giant search engine like Google’s. You can discover the seedy past of a creep you might have otherwise dated, find directions to the nearest Thai restaurant, or instantly learn how many inches are in a mile (63,360).
But searching [...]
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Truveo: the better way to find video–WSJ
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Google walks the Streets–WSJ
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The Virtual Stroll–WSJ
August 14, 2007 Lee Gomes
The Internet has changed everything, including a casual stroll down the street, something that, for increasingly large parts of the country, you now don’t need to get out of bed to do.
Google Maps has a new feature called Street View, which contains block-by-block photographs that you can view one [...]
Google Docs and Spreadsheets–WSJ
Posted in Random stuff about teens, books, and technology on August 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Growing Web-Based Software Helps Parents and Schools Peek at Lessons, Share Records
By Christopher Lawton
August 23, 2007; Wall Street Journal
After his divorce, Gregg La Montagne found it hard to help his 15-year-old daughter with her schoolwork since she lives in another state. So for her Spanish class recently, Mr. La Montagne told her to write her [...]
Everything I needed to know to become a millionaire I learned in a book
Posted in Random stuff about teens, books, and technology on August 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
By CHESTER E. FINN, JR. and DIANE RAVITCH
August 8, 2007
In a globalizing economy, America’s competitive edge depends in large measure on how well our schools prepare tomorrow’s workforce.
And notwithstanding the fact that Congress and the White House are now controlled by opposing parties, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are bent on devising new [...]
Tips on getting published–from the WSJ
Posted in Random stuff about teens, books, and technology on August 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
How to Get a Children’s Book Printed
Kelly Spors answers questions from readers about entrepreneurship
August 7, 2007; Page B9
Q: How do you go about trying to get a children’s book printed?
–Kelly Thompson, Shaker Heights, Ohio
A: Finding a publisher requires some perseverance, research and, yes, superb writing. A good start is checking [...]
Creating PDFs -WSJ
Posted in Random stuff about teens, books, and technology on August 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Creating Documents for All to Read– WSJ
–by Katherine Boehret
Mossberg Solution, August 8 page D9 of the Wall Street Journal
For years, people have accessed a variety of digital content in one of the most universally accepted formats: Adobe’s Portable Document Format, better known as the PDF. A PDF holds images and text without altering a document’s [...]
High School Reading Lists get a Modern Make-over (CSM)
Posted in Random stuff about teens, books, and technology on August 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
“So what catapults Life of Pi and The Lovely Bones to the elusive reading list club? Both are bildungsromans, or stories of young people coming of age. Ms. Nilsen says this theme is crucial for reading list inclusion, as youth need to feel a connection to the literature. J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye [...]
New Blockbuster for Reluctant Readers?
Posted in Random stuff about teens, books, and technology on August 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Blood, Sweet Blood!
THE PROJECT: It was love at first bite. Readers have embraced Stephenie Meyer’s vampire series — there are now 1.6 million copies in print in the U.S. of her first two titles, “Twilight” (2005) and “New Moon” (2006). On Aug. 7, Lagardère SCA’s Little Brown for Young Readers imprint is publishing one million [...]
Dewey is just so YESTERDAY!!
Posted in Random stuff about teens, books, and technology on July 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
WSJ
Discord Over Dewey
A New Library in Arizona Fans a Heated Debate
Over What Some Call the ‘Googlization’ of Libraries
By ANDREW LAVALLEE
July 20, 2007
By all accounts, patrons of the Perry Branch Library in Gilbert, Ariz., are happy with the new digs.
Since the doors opened last month, visitors have checked out about 900 items a day, far more [...]
Volunteerism: getting out of hand??
Posted in Random stuff about teens, books, and technology on July 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Los Angeles Times
Schools today require students to log countless hours of community service. It’s gotten out of hand.
By Cary Bickley
Los Angeles
Call me old-fashioned, but community service used to mean something. Charitable work, an important tradition in American culture, once grew out of a family’s genuine concern for a cause or from long-standing relationships [...]
