Monthly Archives: November 2008

The Great Twitter Experiment of Late 2008

By Michael Becker | Published: November 9, 2008
As fol­low­ers of this blog — you few, proud peo­ple — already know, I have restarted my Twitter account and am attempt­ing to make some use out of it. This lit­tle exper­i­ment of mine has been going on for two days now, and I’m find­ing it much more enjoy­able than the first time, mostly because [...]
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Test post from Web site

By Michael Becker | Published: November 7, 2008
I have rejoined the Twitterpated masses and rein­stated my Twitter account. Now I’m in the process of link­ing every­thing I do online into Twitter some­how. This post, for those of you who see it, should show up on my Twitter sta­tus and on my Facebook page before fil­ter­ing through to Friendfeed and my Tumblr blog. [...]
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Evernote on iPod Touch

By Michael Becker | Published: November 6, 2008
So I’ve installed Evernote on my iPod touch and will spend some time test­ing it a lit­tle later. Right now, I just wanted to make a post using the iPod because I feel guilty hav­ing the Worspress app on here and using it so seldomly.
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Tools of the trade

By Michael Becker | Published: November 6, 2008
In my never-ending search for online tools that will work between my Mac lap­top, my iPod Touch and my Windows desk­tops at work and home, I have come across dozens of appli­ca­tions and Web sites that I think might work until I lose inter­est in them and move on. Usually, mov­ing on means “man­u­ally” shuf­fling [...]
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A “hypertext”

By Michael Becker | Published: November 5, 2008
In the midst of col­lect­ing Web links to accom­pany one of my upcom­ing arti­cles, I came across this page, still hosted some­where in the depths of MSU’s old­est servers. This “hyper­text” in glacial geol­ogy dates back to 1999, when stu­dents in Geology 445 — Glacial Geology cre­ated the site. The date at the top of [...]
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