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A tutorial on 5 Great Background Masking Techniques in Photoshop. As someone who only dabbles in photoshop this is a very good tutorial I recomend to other dabblers.

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Below are the podcasts from Explorers Post 631 - Computer Technology that resulted from a lesson about Blogging, RSS, and Podcasting.

• America's Next Top Model Commentary


• The Clevenad Browns


• Cars


• Celebrity Deathmatch Predictions


• Sports Interviews


• Video Gamers Unite

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As an advisor for an Explorer Scout Post 631 (Computer Technology) I occasionally have to teach a lesson to the students. Last week I choose Blogging, RSS, and Podcasts. A rough outline of the lesson I taught was:

1. Blogging




1. What is Blogging?


2. Examples of Blogging


3. Why are Blogs so popular?


4. How do you start a Blog?


5. Pass out direction sheet on how to start one while calling on a student to walk through starting a Blog for the class.




2. RSS, The Technology Behind Blogging




1. Quick overview of Really Simple Syndication.


2. Starting a news aggregator subscription.


3. Describe why its so cool -> Content Aggregation


4. Demo my subscriptions


5. Pass out direction sheet on how to start one while calling on a student to walk through starting a Bloglines (News Aggregation) subscription.


6. How to search for feeds to subscribe too.


7. How to search across all Blogs.




3. Podcasting




1. What is it Podcasting?


2. Examples of Podcasts.


3. How to search and subscribe to podcast


4. The steps involved in podcasting




1. Record the broadcast


2. Edit broadcast


3. Publish the Podcast




5. Break up into groups by table and have each group plan out a 3 minute Podcast, Record it, Bring it back to their laptops, Clean it up with the software and pass on back to me where I’ll podcast them out to the internet.

• “Starting a Blog” Directions


• “Using a RSS Aggregator” Directions


• “Subscribing to Podcasts” Directions


• “Making Podcasts” Directions

Now I just need to create the podcasts for the recordings they made.

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Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far. I want to see someone sue sony for this ridiculousness. Enough is enough! In another related case of DRM gone too far check out this information on new legislation that goes way beyond the broadcast flag legislation that appears to have been successfully put down is the Analog Hole bill. It will be illegal to make anything capable of digitizing video unless it either has all its outputs approved by the Hollywood studios, or is closed-source, proprietary and tamper-resistant.

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