Tag Archives: mp3

Readability will change the way you read online

By Greg | Published: June 16, 2010
Technology consultancy Arc90 has released a simple tool that will work in any modern web browser and makes reading online a whole new experience. The tool is called Readability and it performs a simple task, removing the clutter from almost any web page, leaving only the featured content. The resulting page is cleanly formatted and [...]
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Heroes of American Storytelling

By Greg | Published: October 19, 2009
They should give these guys an award. Oh yeah, they have: three Peabodys, the George Polk Award, the Edward R. Murrow Award, two Emmys (for their TV show) and many others. This American Life, from WBEZ Chicago, is a weekly radio show that has mastered the art of storytelling. The stories they tell are drawn [...]
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Strike Up the Band

By Greg | Published: October 12, 2009
My son, Jacob, attends Sierra Waldorf School, in Jamestown, CA. Music has been a part of his curriculum since first grade. They started on wooden pentatonic flutes (watch Bobby McFarrin demonstrate the power of the pentatonic scale), then moved on to the C scale flute and recorder. This year, in 5th grade, they started band. [...]
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Into the Flow We Go

By Greg | Published: September 22, 2009
This blog is rssCloud enabled. How would you know? You probably won’t. Should you care? Probably not today. Why did I bother? Well, you know that I like buttons-that-light-up. But seriously, there will be a benefit, as rssCloud and other real time web technologies pick up steam. A definition: Use of the <cloud> tag — [...]
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