Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

The Official Google Blog recently wrote a post about Google’s new partnership with Teach for America. Google states:
In recognition of the strengths exhibited by Teach For America corps members and their strong commitment to education, Google is offering two-year deferrals to individuals who are accepted into Teach For America’s program and who [...]

I just added several new features to the Bass Page. At the top of the page are a whole bunch of tabs now which will guide you down into the catacombs of this blog. I will probably clean and tighten up these tabs over the next few weeks, but for now it [...]

One of my favorite podcasts is Rob Walch’s Podcast411. I discovered this podcast about six months ago and devoured all of Rob’s past episodes. It is really a fantastic podcast and a great way to discover new shows.
Rob had Dr. Kathy King from Podcast for Teachers on a few months ago, and [...]

Bill Gates was recently interviewed on Charlie Rose. Check it out here–it is worth watching. You’ll see a lot of Windows Vista in action in this video:

Those of you who use Firefox as your internet browser know that you can add as many extensions as you want to the browser. I use all sorts of fun extensions like StumbleUpon, Performancing, Greasemonkey, and the del.icio.us extension.
Here’s a great screen shot I recently found of someone who went all out on their [...]

After a long day of surfing, hacking, and tweaking, I have put some really cool new features into my blog that I think people will enjoy. The first new feature is above this post in the address bar of your browser. I have installed a Bass Page favicon (the bass clef you see [...]

Wired News put out a recent story on a musical instruction web app recently demoed at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. It is called In the Chair, and it sounds like a real step forward for music education. Check out the demo video:

This is the sort of thing that I would [...]

Google Reader has had some recent exciting new developments. This is really an excellent RSS reader which I have started to use as my main news aggregator. If you are not familiar with the concept of an aggregator, check out this Wikipedia page for more information.
Here is how the new Google Reader looks (see this [...]

I have been using Google Book Search nearly every day since it was launched. Google is attempting to accomplish with printed text what they have done with the internet, which is to have every bit of information available at one’s fingertips. They still have a long way to go to reach this goal [...]

News at Seven is a recent project launched by Northwestern University (my Alma Mater). This thing is really amazing. It is a completely automatic news generator. Using characters from Half-Life, the program creates a news feed by scraping news sites, blogs, videos and more to create a news program with absolutely no [...]