Category: Technology
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Feed Me
WARNING: I am about to GO SCOBLE. So I get my “I’ve got a shiny new website” email from my personal all-time favorite candidate for president, Ohio Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich, and I check out the site. It’s great. Much slicker than what he had up during the 2004 race. There’s video, a little flashy…
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The Annotated New York Times
Whoa. Scoble does (whoops, left something out) DOES NOT think this awesome site is as cool as Memeorandum, but I side with Steve Rubel on this one. The Annotated Times throws together aggregates a page of NY Times stories along with a link to blogs that are linking to each story. What’s more, there’s a…
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Print vs. Online – A Question of Class?
Here’s what we need to truly democratize information: 1. Free broadband internet access in the poorest parts of the country/world. 2. Inexpensive/subsidized/donated/free computers and a tiny bit of training for the same poorest parts of the country/world.
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Library Study Time
Spending the afternoon, as usual, at the library in full-on-study/clearly-not-addicted-to-my-feeds-via-bloglines mode. I usually glance around at what people are reading/studying/clearly-not-studying around me, and the glaring amusements today = a girl with her highlighter out and textbook open, unabashedly watching a full episode of Smallville on her laptop + the guy about 4 feet away from…
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Another View
Steve Sloan, SJSU Tech On A Mission, weighs in on Prof. Craig’s talk in his “People to Watch in Emerging Technology at SJSU” series.
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Convergence In J-School
The Professor who teaches my grad class is about to give a presentation on Convergence – he attended a seminar a few weeks ago at the Poynter Institute and came back full of ideas. What’s convergence? Here’s what Larry Pryor from the USC Annenberg School of Communication adapted from the talk he gave at the…