Edublogs.Org - Education Blogs

I feel kinda guilty to post this on Monday, still it should be fine. Twitter is often good to get news from other people. One member, mobileminded, posted that he was moving his blog to EduBlogs. Of course, I don't of this member, and personally I don't mind this moving issue. But, what is this EduBlogs? So, we go EduBlogs.com. Wrong. This is %100 wrong. Do not do .com for every keyword. Search google, and click on the wisest result. Our smart and righteous result was EduBlogs.Org
From what I can tell (what if I spell this verb with typo; teel) looking at their home page:

* Sign up for a free education blog in seconds
* Use it to transform your teaching or talk to other teachers
* Powered by WordPress, the best blogging tool on the web
* Safe, secure and completely supported
* Embed video, create podcasts and customise your space

It sounds good for me, and I am ready to explore what they got for us.

T-Mobile Customer Service - Experience - Free Library of Philadelphia

It is the weekend, and you may want to watch a couple of movies. Free Library of Philadelphia is a great source for international movies. You can apply for free membership, and get their card which tells you to "use it often." They have several branches in the city. Though, you can not reserve DVDs, still good deal!

Their welcome message:
"Welcome. This website enables you to exercise your freedom to be informed. Use it often."

Experience the city by walking. Philadelphia is a very walkable city, since it has one of the finest grid city plan. It is all about tree names like Chestnut, Walnut, and numbers.

Last, T-Mobile Service. Every time you call them, the rep tells his reference number, and welcomes you. But, once, one guy did not repeat that standard welcoming message. I had to ask if it was T-Mobile. It was a very interesting moment, as if I was calling my friend. "Well, can I talk to my buddy, named T-Mobile?"
The guy asked me if I want him to sing. He talked a well ten second of worthless efforts to sing, until I delivered my legitimate inquiry about T-Mobile service.

Before everything, don't forget their motto; "Stick together with T-Mobile!"


What would you do in this situation? Do you take a note of their 100-digit reference number, so you can file a complaint later? I simply said thanks, I hang up. However, I certainly believe another person would be joking with him, or even cursing to him for his stupidity. At the end, he was trying to earn his wage, if you look from an emotional perspective/lens.
One last moment of thought - What lenses do you use in what type of situation? Do you look at the person driving a 1986 Ford from an emotional lens while you drive an SUV? Or, do you use a smart-kid lens when you try to teach someone about something? Well, it is Satur-Day, and another blogger is spelling it the same way. Satur-Day. Check out his blog from Tokyo. We love international blogs at cafealaturca.

A Friday Night Delivery - Only Take Out, No Dine In

Would you mind me to operate this blog as a fast food restaurant? What would it be like? Creating the ultimate high quality community interaction is a dream. Approaching to this dream through implementing daily practices to the virtual world might seem creative and effective. Right now, I am not sure, but still trying, as you can see from the blog title of today's post.

A blog writer is like a columnist in a newspaper, I think. To be a journalist takes guts. To be a director takes a webcam (see YouTube videos, and other online videos)
However, not all videos on YouTube are bad. Here is one recommendation for Friday night date seekers. By the way, for some reason, Thursday nights in Philadelphia is very popular for outgoing people in the city, the bars are full.

Let's give some news. e-Rewards is an online opinion panel that credits you rewards. Like, Delta Skymiles is a company that I have been completing their surveys. They are one of the members of e-Rewards, and they sent me an invitation for this opinion panel. You can discover more about e-Rewards on their website, but to hear the word from me, let me tell you. It is often very hard to get those rewards in this opinion panel. They ask very specific questions, and if you do not qualify, or you are not consistent in your answers to the first couple of basic personal questions, then you only get partial credits which is about $1.00, in comparison to $5, $10, or even $25.00 which takes your 20 minutes to complete. I couldn't have a chance to utilize my time for such money since I was not qualified for that survey. Still, it is nice, realistic, no-spam opinion panel. Two thumbs up!!

Writing this blog is all about gaining the right to say, "I told you before," or "I heard about it!"
Here, I am earning partial credit for my thoughts. I thought about this before, but didn't have the resources to implement the idea. But, maybe somebody else had thought about this idea way before me, and they were preserving this idea in their wine storage to catch the most profitable, righteous time to open up the bottle. Remember my post about mind blogging, or mobile blogging. Here it is.
Jott
What is this jott about? Jott that!

From Steve Bass' words, "You're driving home or walking the dog and have a gem of an idea. If your mobile phone lets you, and you remember how, you can record the thought as a personal message. But there's a better way.

Use your speed dial to call Jott (877/568 8486). Talk for 30 seconds and Jott turns what you say into text -- and sends it to you as e-mail. Have other you'd like to send a Jott to? Just add their name and e-mail address to your Jott contact list."

I think it is a great idea, but I still cannot accept mobile service providers to charge minutes to dial 1-800 numbers. It is just not acceptable for me from a fair-talk point of view. What is fair talk? I don't know yet, but it is not right to charge minutes for toll free numbers :-)

Check out some of the recorded voices on their website. It is awesome, and I want to quote one of the voices;
J.M. says, "I really hope the lady that I just passed in traffic was eating a fruit cup but not a jello shot."
Funny, huh? Don't you have moments of thoughts when you want to jot(t) them down. I do!

As usual, there is a security risk for Jott. Nitesh Danjani from ONLamp.com reports about the spoofing of Caller ID and adds that "Twitter (and Jott) will have to weigh the security risk of this issue against the impact to the ease of use of their service." He has some great points of discussion. And, thanks to him, I learned about twittervision which can be very very addictive to just sit in front of your computer and read twitters' updates from around the world. It is an amazing service, I do not doubt that similar amazing technological advances on such websites will follow up.

About 30 minutes invested in this post, but I learned a lot, I hope, you too! Take care, don't drive under influence in the weekend. And, if you still didn't laugh at something, here is one Paris Hilton being incapable photo when I came across during my exploring for DUI pictures. Credits to Jalopnik.com which is a site about cars. Nice job! By the way, finally, I implemented the bookmarking and feeding feature to this blog. You can also do it through addthis.com, it is a FREE service. Thanks addthis!