Some neat new features have just been launched on Blogger in Draft:
Blogger in Draft: Polls and enclosures added to Blogger in draft: “Today we’re saving two more features to Blogger in draft: Polls and enclosure links.”
I’ve yet to have a play with this, but both options sound like they’ll offer a great deal of potential to Blogspot users.
The one suggestion I’d make to the folks at Blogger though is I hope that they’ll be including recommendations on hosting service providers for bloggers who want to take full advantage of the …

Today’s SMH has reported that:
“Murdoch mulls Yahoo stake – BizTech – Technology – smh.com.au: “Global media giant News Corp has proposed swapping social networking site MySpace with internet giant Yahoo in return for a 25 per cent stake in the enlarged group, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.”
TechCrunch first reported this yesterday, saying if the deal went through it would value MySpace in the ballpark of $12 Billion.
I say Yahoo has got to be smoking something if they’re even considering forking out that much money…

Today’s Sydney Morning Herald asked “Does Google know too much about you?“:
“Google, the world leader in web search services, is the focus of mounting paranoia over the scope of its powers as it expands into new advertising formats from online video to radio and TV, while creating dozens of new internet services.True, the Silicon Valley company has millions of people telling it daily what’s apparently on their minds via simple Web searches, generating mountains of information about consumer behaviour.”

This is a very interesting question that seems to be coming up …

Today’s Sydney Morning Herald explains that the New South Wales Government plans to introduce electronic whiteboards and web-conferencing to NSW Schools.
“The State Government will install 200 high-tech digital whiteboards in NSW public schools, which it says will “transform the way education is delivered”, over the next year.The interactive whiteboards, along with video-conferencing technology and e-learning tools, will take up $28 million of tomorrow’s 2007-08 state budget.”

From personal experience with web conferencing in education, the “wow factor” these technologies bring is quite effective in engaging students. The key however – …

Blogger has recently announced the release of a new development environment known as Blogger in Draft, which will provide curious users with access to tools and features that aren’t quite ready for prime time.
The inaugural release is Video Uploading. Just as Blogspot and Blogger users are currently able to upload photos directly to their Picasa Web account via the blog posting page, so can they now to do the same with video – but only from Blogger in Draft. Uploaded videos are submitted automatically to Google Video, where …