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Here is a fun site that lets you compare how many search results you get from different searches on Google. http://www.onfocus.com/googlesmack/down.asp I am not sure of any real use for this but it is kind of fun.

Here is something fun to do in your free time Peace, Steve

I may blog like I am the biggest fan of Google but they have just released a great tool for students and people doing research on more than one computer. The new Google Notebook service lets you take notes on any search results that you find in Google or on anything else without any software needing to be installed. This is a great tool for anyone doing research but all the more so for those of us doing research on more than one computer. This would have been a great tool for thesis research!

Today's Ask the DataMan session benefiting KidsTek was a great success. Many wonderful questions were asked and answered. Here is the follow-up to some of the questions.

Karis Community, a client of Denver DataMan Launches new Website! The new website was built by Denver DataMan and Cuttlefish Arts. With the new website Karis Community will be able to more effectivly communicate with potential clients, partners and supporters by having a nicer site as well as one they can update themselves!

Tech Toys 4 Kids got its first donation yesterday. 12 monitors were donated by the Mile High United Way to be given to kids who do not have computers. Next week we will be getting the computers to match.

I listen to a lot of books on CD and I can not think of a time before this when I would call something a must read before I had even finished the second CD but Wikinomics is a must read/listen to book. Born out of its own multi-national collaborative project Wikinomics looks at how the world is changing because of what is often called Web 2.0.

This is a very good article from Constant Contact about how to build your eNewsletter list.

Readers, As some of you may know I am at a teachers conference at Washington University in St. Louis. Besides for the weather the conference is amazing. When we say Denver is hot but at least it is dry it is so very true. But this is a technology blog so I can take advantage of the air conditioning while I write it.

If you think your kids are safe online, My Space, a popular social networking site shared the frightening news that there are 29,000 sex offenders with profiles on the site. These are just the ones that they have been able to identify! There are safe ways to use the Internet and there are safe ways to share the Internet with your children but My Space is NOT one of them. See this article on the Boston Herald. http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=1013242