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POPSChris Lott on Doris Lessing: she has a point Ed-tech blogger Chris Lott offers some reflections on Doris Lessing's Nobel speech, in which she decries the "stupidity" fostered by the Web. I tend to think, as does Lott, that she's mostly right.
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POPSWeb-based travel organizer (anyone tried this yet?) When you book a trip online, email your itinerary to Tripit, and it will aggregate everything about your travel into a single page (plus it will pull in data from around the web that's relevant to your travel). Looks very handy.
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POPSOpen education recommendation service A Javascript tool that allows you to discover open-courseware recommendations related to pages you are browsing. I haven't really tested it yet but all the ed-tech geeks love it.
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POPSFleck.com: easy web annotations With or without registration or a download, Fleck.com lets you post flexible sticky notes on any web page. What's missing: public member pages and RSS feeds.
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POPSOnline graphics generators for your site: roundup Pete Cashmore of Mashable posts a roundup of tools for automating the design of your site. Emphasis is on sleek CSS layouts, pale gradients, and faux-3D reflection effects, so you get a nice Web 2.0 look overall. Can't imagine I'd ever need to use this, but I think I will probably get stuck redesigning my department's website, so ... maybe I will after all.
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POPSGoogle Maps director on "the geoweb" Google's Maps and Earth teams have a blog. This first post is a kind of quick glimpse into their thinking on maps and location-based computing (call it "the geoweb" or "where 2.0" or "earth browsers" or whatever). Via http://301url.com/9w5
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POPSJoyce's Ulysses via Twitter: oddly addictive A bot at the Institute for the Future of the Book is "reading" an etext of Joyce's Ulysses to the world via Twitter -- a line every twenty minutes or so. I thought this was incredibly stupid, but I keep coming back to see what's new.
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POPSZoho bridges desktop and web apps - TechCrunch This is big news: Zoho is introducing plugins for MS Office apps which will allow you to save directly to the Web from inside Word or Excel. If this really works, I will be ditching Google Docs. I just wish it were possible to do the same thing with Backpack.
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POPSFeedCycle: "serialize" your feed Apparently they invented "serialized" feeds. This means that when someone subscribes to your feed, they will automatically get episode 1 that day, then episode 2 the next day, etc., even if you are already up to episode 15 when they subscribe. I don't know what I'd use this for, but it sounds handy.
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POPSZotero - Online research tool A feature-rich citation manager built on top of Mozilla. Requires FF 2.0 to run. Mainly aimed at heavy users of online bibliographic databases. Getting a lot of hype. I'd like to try it, but I'm not interested in disabling all my FF 1.5.0.7 extensions.
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