The Bookmark Meme

Ryan Bretag at The Four-Eyed Technologist has issue a great new meme to those bloggers whom he classifies as adding "to my growth on a daily basis." I don't know if I have added to Ryan's growth or not, but knowing that he has added to mine pushes me to contribute to the meme.

It's simple: what are your last five del.icio.us bookmarks? As Ryan points out, Vicki Davis does this on a near daily basis, and along with Kevin Jarret, I count over a hundred resources collected this way in my account.

Here are my last 5 bookmarks:

1. Spaz
   
2. SearchSmarter
3. EdubloggerCon Wiki
4. The Connected Classroom
   
5. Behold, Flickr High-Quality Search
   

Spaz is a great twitter interface that runs on AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime), and just has so much more functionality than what I was using, Twitterific. Thanks to John Pederson for that one. Search Smarter is a wiki I made for the Freshman and Sophomores this year to help them search with a little more efficiency. It's not as loaded as I wanted, but I didn't want to overwhelm them (which happened anyway). EdubloggerCon is a site created originally to house the planning processes involved in the first EduBloggerCon in the days before NECC07 in Atlanta. Now, it has grown to be a resource for anyone interested in school change and reform. Kristen Hokanson's Connected Classroom just happened upon me the other day on a recommendation from Jennifer Dorman's blog. I love wikis like this one because it has everything, and depending on the license, I can use the great work Kristen's done to help the teachers I work with. I just love smart people and the work they do. The last one, Behold, is a search engine that scours flickr for images that match your criteria, and you can even tell it to search for images that "look" like something in particular. Very sharp.

The Meme

Thinking that I shouldn't give out 16 random facts about myself, I'll just consider myself extremely flattered to have been tagged twice for the "8 Random Things" meme. Thank you to both Page and Melanie for the consideration.

First, the Rules:
1) Post these rules before you give your facts
2) List 8 random facts about yourself
3) At the end of your post, choose (tag) 8 people and list their names, linking to them
4) Leave a comment on their blog, letting them know they’ve been tagged


My Pillars of Randomness:

• I have completed several marathons and two ultramarathons within the last 6 years.
• I live on two beautiful golf courses, but rarely play.
• My favorite book of all time is "The Brothers Karamazov"
• The first job I had after college was selling beach chairs in the coastal town of Mati, Greece.
• If you ask my wife, I have no talent for doing anything handy.
• Terry Bradshaw once told me I had more hair on the back of my neck than he did on his entire head.
• The way I figure things out is to break them first, then put them back together in a meaningful way, if not the original form (this is annoying to most).
• I always said I was never coming back to New Jersey, yet here I am.

That is sort of cathartic, I have to say. Now, who to tag?
Erica Hartman
Jo Shuppon
Jen Van Kirk
Bing Miller
Cindy Barnsley
Clay Burell
Scott Schwister
Brad Davis

Photo Credit: 8-eight. Claudecf's photostream on Flickr