Posts from ‘Online Tools’
Technology has reached a point where I am no longer looking for the news. The news finds me.
In a webcast press conference this week, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced the replacement for its current system of data storage and report filing. The new system, called IDEA, brings the SEC into the future of online, interactive data management. And that’s not all they have planned for online interaction–Jen Zingsheim and Sarah Wurrey report on the webcast, and the possible future of transparency in government and business.
We’ve all seen tag clouds before, and tools to produce them are pretty ubiquitous. You can even make a cloud or your Twitter posts, your del.icio.us tags, just about anything, really. So I wasn’t all that interested in hearing about another one; but then I realized Wordle makes tag clouds pretty!


Still Don’t Get Twitter? Maybe This Will Help
It’s okay to admit it. You’re among friends. You’ve been on Twitter for a couple of months now and you still can’t figure out what the heck all the fuss is about. It took me a while to “get” Twitter, too, but now I find it an indispensable part of my toolkit for gathering information and promoting my work. Here are some things to think about.