iMatt :: The Blog of Matt Clare

Long ago I promised myself I’d blog about <a href=”evernote.com”>Evernote</a&gt; when I made more than 1000 notes. I broke that record on Friday November 9, 2012 so here’s a quick summary of what Evernote is and what I use it for. Evernote is intended to help people remember everything. While I haven’t achieved that, I’m… Continue Reading Me and Evernote

I tried to share this on icalshare.com, but can’t make an account (the password field is not blank!) so I’ll share it here. I created a Brock University important dates feed from the registrar’s list of important dates www.brocku.ca/registrar/guides/returning/importantdates.php . The dates are added to a Google Doc Spreadsheet then run through our Centre for… Continue Reading Brock University Important Dates iCal Feed

Here’s a word cloud for 2011 at MattClare.ca – mostly my blog (biased towards the end of the year): Here’s my Twitter feed for 2011: I think the insight there is that I use twitter to get a hold of Giulia a lot. As my ThinkUp installation at mattclare.ca/thinkup gains way more data than my… Continue Reading 2011 at MattClare.ca

My 5 min review of Pearson OpenClass: Some very nice infrastructure. If there’s a revolution to be found here I haven’t spotted it. Continue Reading What does Pearson/Google’s OpenClass Look Like?

Many have heard me complain that I’m not a fan of AWOLNATION’s hit song “Sail!”. One thing I often cite is how few unique words are in the song. I finally ran the numbers: AWOLNATION’s four minute and twenty seconds song “Sail” has 85 words, but, only 36 of those words are unique! Here’s how… Continue Reading How many unique words are in AWOLNATION’s “Sail!”?