ITS Coffee Break: WordCamp, Mars Rover Blog, Twitter Lists

On this episode of the ITS Coffee Break, hosts Ken Newquist and Courtney Bentley discuss upcoming virtual Moodle brown bags being hosted by CLAMP and take a look at WordCamp NYU.

They then delve into Tech News with headlines about the Unofficial Mars Rover Diary, Twitter’s introduction of a list tool, the social-network measuring tool Klout, Shazam‘s decision to charge for its music-identifying iPhone app, and a unique problem with the Droid smartphone’s autofocus feature.

In Help News, they take a look at the NextGEN photo gallery plugin for WordPress, and announce the ITS workshop schedule for December. Continue reading

ITS Coffee Break for 7/28/08

On this edition of the ITS Coffee Break hosts Ken Newquist and Courtney Bentley review what’s new in Moodle, talk about the Moodle Hack/Doc Fest held at Kenyon College, announce the creation of Lafayette’s Second Life Island and take a look at the college’s new “Corn on the Quad” blog. In Tech News, they stop by NASA’s new “NASA Images” photo archive, try out the “Molecules” application for the iPhone and iPod touch, and review Google’s decision to kill it’s LibrarianCentral blog.

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