Make My Idea: Open Stock Images with the Power of the Crowd
Sometimes in life, you just need a cheezy image of four ethnically diverse people in business attire in a boardroom smiling. You could buy a stock...
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June 13, 2023
eLearning Branching Scenarios can Learn from Choose Your Own Adventure Stories
I was lucky enough to grow up during the 1980s heyday of Choose Your Own Adventure stories, a low-tech precursor to the electronic branching...
November 15, 2021
Alternatives to Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram 2021
Exploring the best alternatives to mainstream social networks to free yourself from the Zuckerverse.
February 15, 2018
Get Your News from RSS, not Social Media
In the article above, we see how bad actors are gaming the algorithms of Facebook and Twitter to spread disinformation. We have seen how the proliferation...
Web 2.0
The Web Ahead: An Excellent Podcast on the Future of the Web
5by5 | The Web Ahead. I have recently discovered The Web Ahead and have been very impressed by the caliber of the guests speakers...
WebRTC: A New Standard for Free, Open Video Chat, File Sharing, and More In the Browser
Everybody loves video chatting with friends, sharing files, instant messaging, and web surfing together. In education, it seems like we always need newer and...
Make my idea! JoyScreen: Browser plug-in for native performance in HTML5 apps
In many ways, it’s crazy that we have multiple competing app stores to deliver content that works perfectly well on the web. HTML5 has...
Replace your Firefox and Chrome Plugins with Bookmarklets for Cross-Platform Productivity
Two of the most popular posts here on TedCurran.net deal with replacing your too-huge collection of browser extensions for Firefox and Chrome to improve your browser’s...
Expanding and Owning my Content at TedCurran.net
I’m very interested in how open source publishing tools like WordPress can empower individuals to own their data, understand and learn from their...
Why Use a Big Tool when Small Ones Will Do? Marrying the LMS with Web 2.0 Tools
I came across this quoted text when reading the manual for Handbrake, a great open source DVD transcoding tool, and realized how relevant the...
Was Google Reader Sacrificed to Preserve the Value of News Content?
I have a speculative explanation for the death of Google Reader. I remember in 2010 when Eric Schmidt was having high-level talks with news outlets,...
Why Write for Paper? Or ‘How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love HTML’
I’ve been blabbering on recently about #Markdown here on TedCurran.net, and I just managed to interest a roomful of seemingly sane people why putting...
An Open Letter to the US Copyright Office in Defense of Jailbreaking
Dear Copyright Office— I would like to register my support for the practice of jailbreaking of smartphones, tablets, and game systems on the...
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