This morning I saw a tweet that led me to a wiki that mentioned a blog post that answered a question I didn’t realize I had – yet! The question was how to add audio to placemarks in Google Earth. One of the school library systems I work with is offering a session on Google [...]
Posts under ‘Media’
Poetry, photography & flickr
The Academy of American Poets Free Verse project on Flickr.
Inspired by the 2009 National Poetry Month poster design, the Academy of American Poets invites you to capture and share your own ephemeral bits of verse. Write lines from a favorite poem on a sandy beach, assemble twigs on a hillside, or chalk the sidewalk. Take [...]
Archival photos, civil war music, great slide show
Kris Abery (CT State Library) did a great slide show today for their CT 23 things project. Photos from the CT State Archives, Civil War music from the Digital History project and Microsoft Photostory to put it all together. Then posted to blip.tv and embedded in her blog post. All free tools and services. And [...]
Great flickr images about our online world, media, life
About a year ago Helene Blowers tipped her readers to a great set of flickr images – Lynetter’s Interesting Snippets. Lynetter takes quotes about the online world, media and communications and finds great images to illustrate them. (Creative Commons licensed of course.) I love these images and quotes and have used quite a few of [...]
Digital Drugs? Is it April Fool’s Day?
When I saw this column in the paper today Digital Drugs: A new worry for parents, I immediately wondered if I’d been whisked around the calendar to April Fool’s Day. But, no, it’s not April and a quick search showed that this has been carried by many of the major news sources [...]

