Tim Lauer

Tim Lauer  //  Portland, Oregon
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Feb 13 / 7:22am

Edit Docs on iPhone... Nice

Google announces that you can now edit Docs and Spreadsheets on your iPhone/iPod Touch, N Nokia S60 or Android G1... 

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Feb 12 / 7:44pm

Watching Obama give Lincoln Day talk in Springfield on MSNBC...

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Feb 12 / 9:00am

Walk and Bike day...

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Feb 11 / 10:58am

Kindle 2's Text-to-Speech, and Copyright


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Kindle 2's Text-to-Speech, and Copyright



Kindle 2, Amazon’s ebook reader, has a new text-to-speech feature which reads out loud the books you bought for it. Here’s a bit of interest from the Wall Street Journal, quoting the director of the Authors Guld, Paul Aiken, saying: “They don’t have the right to read a book out loud ... That’s an audio right, which is derivative under copyright law.” [Via Reddit.]

[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Kindle 2's Text-to-Speech, and Copyright | Comments]


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Feb 11 / 8:16am

Google Mobile - Sync

I'm really liking Google Sync... MobileMe without the cost... http://www.google.com/mobile/default/sync.html

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Feb 10 / 3:50pm

Buena Vista bass player remembered - PRI's The World

Listening to...

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Feb 9 / 8:31am

firsthand: A Principal's Guide to Leadership in the Teaching of Writing

This is worth considering for a school wide focus next year...

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Feb 8 / 9:47am

Man Dies and Scores Are Rescued From Ice Floe - NYTimes.com

He said he was frustrated that so much manpower and money were being used to rescue people who knowingly put themselves in danger, adding that one fisherman who was rescued admitted that going out farther on the lake might not have been the best idea.

I think this is a metaphor for our economic situation. People doing things against their better judgment...

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Feb 6 / 9:42am

NYT: Blogs - Nicholas D. Kristof - Throwing schools out the window

http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/kristof/1529/single
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Feb 5 / 6:58am

February 4, 2009 Newsletter

(download)

The February 4, 2009 edition of the Lewis Elementary School Newsletter
is now available online.
 

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