Keeping up with the new...

It's a little ironic that I'm posting this now, since it showed up on Kevin Kelly's blog 15 days ago, but I guess we can't all be up to date all the time. ;-)

This post on Cool Tools points to a bunch of sites -- he calls them Consensus Web Filters -- that can help us keep up with the latest and greatest.

...each of these sites supplies readers with pointers to news items that are ranked by other readers. None of these sites generates news; they only point to it by filtering the links to newsy items. Using different formulas they rank an ever moving list of links on the web. The velocity of their lists varies by site, but some will have a 100% turnover in a few days.

Well worth a look!

Accepted by iTunes

Noted without comment.

Google Mars

Just saw a reference to this on NITLE's Liberal Education Today Blog: Google Maps for Mars!

Zoho Creator

This one looks interesting:

Zoho Creator: "Zoho Creator is a free online service to create & share web applications with few mouse
clicks."

I will have to investigate.

via Educational Weblogs

LibriVox

LibriVox: "LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain."

They have a podcast too!

via NITLE's Blog

Google buys Writely

The online wordprocesser Writely announced yesterday that it is now part of Google.

CogDog Podcasting Resources

Alan Levine has put together a nice wiki page with a bunch podcasting resources on it. He used it during a recent demo where he works (the Maricopa Community Colleges in Phoenix, AZ).

Thumbstacks

Here's another web-application-that-replaces-a-desktop application:

Thumbstacks.com - Live presentations on the web!

It looks a lot like PowerPoint; and the name reminds me of hypercard stacks. Warning! The site claims that they are still in alpha, so you might want to wait before you use it for real.

Wiki+Ajax = Wetpaint

Wetpaint is the latest entry into the world of wiki hosting, and I am impressed. Check out the demo page if you get a chance and be sure to try out the editing functions. I can't think of a more elegant-looking easy-to-use wiki-editor.

UPDATE: I should have thanked TJ for pointing me to the site. Thanks, TJ.