Take the Microsoft Challenge! Does the phrase "Windows HS: Microsoft designs a school system" completely scramble anybody else's brain? Or is it just me?… Posted on: September 17, 2006 By: Ryan Brazell With: 0 Comments
What *are* campus labs for, anyway? I know I pick on The Chronicle of Higher Ed's Wired Campus newsletter an awful lot, but they don't have… Posted on: September 14, 2006 By: Ryan Brazell With: 2 Comments
The Power of the Blog I'll let Daniel Barwick's article The Blog That Ate a Presidency, and the discussion that follows, speak for themselves. (Thanks… Posted on: August 1, 2006 By: Ryan Brazell With: 0 Comments
Blackboard and the US Patent Office, Part 2 So I've had some time to calm myself down a bit, and to look at the full text of Blackboard's… Posted on: August 1, 2006 By: Ryan Brazell With: 5 Comments
Blackboard and the US Patent Office, Part 1 I was -just- making my way off the computer when I ran across this press release: WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 26, 2006--Blackboard… Posted on: July 31, 2006 By: Ryan Brazell With: 1 Comment
Voice of America: making English "special" An article on page A15 of today's New York Times (also found here, registration irritatingly required) alerted me to the… Posted on: July 31, 2006 By: Ryan Brazell With: 4 Comments
I hate to kick Microsoft when they're down, but… Check out this article and the accompanying video of a Windows Vista voice recognition demo gone wrong. Ambient noise? I… Posted on: July 31, 2006 By: Ryan Brazell With: 0 Comments
Open source software: for students, by students. Last summer, the Google Summer of Code 2005 debuted as a project designed "to introduce students to the world of… Posted on: July 29, 2006 By: Ryan Brazell With: 4 Comments
It depends on what the definition of is, is. According to a New York Times article featured in yesterday's Wired Campus newsletter, Blackboard "has all the earmarks of a… Posted on: July 19, 2006 By: Ryan Brazell With: 1 Comment
Skype vs. the hackers Yesterday, one of my favorite tech / gadget blogs featured a blurb reporting that "a team of Chinese engineers" (read:… Posted on: July 15, 2006 By: Ryan Brazell With: 0 Comments