The Fischbowl

I think sometimes we use words assuming they mean one thing when they actually mean another. Much like accountability , I think "tradi...

On November 27, 2006, I posted this which said, among other things, In September of 2015, Google and Apple announce the first shipping qu...

So, Google Goggles is now in beta in Google Labs and available on Android phones. Humorous name aside, the product looks to be a huge leap...

When I was growing up I liked watching the Six Million Dollar Man on television. Looking back, it was a pretty hokey show, but I really lik...

Today's Did You Know? / 2020 Vision combo sighting of the day - Singularity University . Singularity University aims to assemble, educa...

I found this story via a tweet by Jackie Ballarini : A one-eyed San Francisco artist wants to replace her missing eye with a Web cam - and...

Kidding. But in his latest Op-Ed piece he posits Steve Jobs going to GM and creating the iCar. If you think back to 2020 Vision , I had App...

Google is using its search trend results to help the CDC fight the flu : We have found a close relationship between how many people search f...

Yes, I know that many folks are glad that this one is finally over (especially getting rid of the campaign ads), but I wanted to reflect bri...

I ran across a couple of interesting posts from ReadWriteWeb that show the changing nature of politics in a read/write, searchable, always-...

As I posted about previously , the DNC is soliciting questions to be addressed at the convention next week. In that post, I suggested that ...

Okay, first Google invests in solar energy . Now Microsoft is trying to buy Yahoo . Now, admittedly, I didn't have this happening until ...

Ran across this video from Nokia on YouTube (also embedded below) via a tweet by Alec Couros . It reminded me a little bit of both What If...

Okay, this is a little scary : According to Google’s news release, the company “is hiring engineers and energy experts to lead its research ...

Sometimes I run across things one after another that seem connected to me but I’m not always sure about the connection. So, I’m not going to...

For those of you visiting the blog for the first time because of this article in the Rocky Mountain News, welcome to the conversation. This...

(The bottom portion of this post is cross-blogged at DesignShare .) DesignShare is a virtual collaboration of school design professionals...

I'm beginning to wonder if the Did You Know? presentation has perhaps gone just a little bit viral . As many of you know, I posted it a...

Via Jeff Utecht . The main reason for this post is the video below. But as a side note, before tonight I'd never heard of digital ethnog...