Don MacAskill has some insightful commentary on why we should be liberal in our linkage.

“The real, true power of the web is just that - it’s a web. Everything can be interconnected, and learning about or researching a subject can be vastly easier online than anywhere else. Using hyperlinks is the very reason content belongs online. If you don’t hyperlink your content, why on earth do you have it online?”

It’s a brief post - definitely worth the read of you put any content online.

A nice list of blogs and brief descriptions of each that discuss security issues surrounding web application development. (via Jeremy Zawodny’s Linkblog)

Interesting suggestions on where to look for inspiration, and reference to a book that looks like a lot of fun. One of my favorite inspirational toys is the Oblique Strategies Dashboard widget.

A conversation starter from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. (Via Bokardo)

Registration has opened for An Event Apart Boston 2007.

Update: Just a few days later, Gotuit’s Scenemaker showed up on Lifehacker. This seems to offer a solution that is pretty close to what I had in mind.

The other day, Rob clued me in to QT Movie NoteTaker, a freeware app for taking notes on movies:

This is a free, easy-to-use program from DVcreators.net that simplifies the process of taking movie notes. This application lets you load a Quicktime movie, then click a button to stop the movie, enters the movie time into your notes automatically, then waits for you to write a brief or lengthy comment.

Really, a great idea for an application. To take this a few steps further, it would be nice to see a web based service like this. One that allowed users to document and share their notes on clips and films that reside on services such as YouTube and Google Video. Collaborative video note taking, in a sense, timestamp and all. Perhaps it already exists in some form - I seem to remember seeing a service which let you draw rectangles on flash video, but I can’t seem find it now.

Fred Stutzman has another great article up on his blog, ‘Blogging: Academia’s Digital Divide‘. Good reading, especially if you find yourself trying to answer the “why blog” question. (Via Paul Martin.)

Nature magazine’s Top five science blogs. The blog post also includes links to 50 of the most popular science blogs, and a few Science blogs by writers. (Via Micro Persuasion.)

This came through my feed reader today, as part of the UVM news feed. It’s an interesting piece on the role of the textbook in the classroom.

Edward Vielmetti has a nice roundup of resources related to reducing clutter in the office. After some of our recent and ongoing cleanup attempts, these look like they will come in handy.