Category: Technology
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Podcasting – content or sidebar?
Podcasting has gone, in just over a year, from a tiny medium with a few participants to a 50-foot-tall woman that every big and small player in mass media wants to date, screw, or attack with F-14s, King Kong style. Frankly, I’m always impressed at the broad range of podcasts out there — everything from…
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Corel Painter Essentials 3
Shameless plug follows… Corel Painter Essentials 3 shipped a couple weeks ago – it’s an entry-level photo painting tool on par with Photoshop Elements as far as features and price go. And that’s my Mom‘s artwork on the cover. Check out the Digital Painting Forum, too. [tags]Corel Painter, photography, painting, software[/tags]
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Um, I think you’ve got that backwards, guys
Steve Rubel always gets me to click on something — maybe he links to things I think matter, or maybe he just wields his credibility wisely. Either way, I was more than happy to check out the page for some sort of RSS Summit in Boston next year. Something in the back of my head…
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Has mass media slipped the surly bonds of programming?
Terry Heaton has been laying down some serious thoughts on the future of television as unbundled bits of media, and his model scales to newspapers easily enough. One of the features of the “pull” technology deployed in everything being called Web 2.0 is the natural-but-new condition of the separation of program and schedule. We think…
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Intelligent Machine Debate at King Library this afternoon
I must have missed this in the SJSU Events feed, but Rudy Rucker debates Noam Cook today on the question of “Will Computers Ever be Alive or Intelligent?” 430-600pm in 225B at the King Library. If I get lots and lots of work done this morning, maybe I’ll duck in for a few minutes. Maybe.…
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Columbia J-School launches multiclass multimedia news site
The Columbia Journalist went live yesterday with election news from New York City. The site aggregates stories covered by Columbia J-School students, including radio, photo, and text elements. Check out the “Browse by Class” menu to get an idea of how many different classes are involved. Columbia J-School Dean of Students Sreenath Sreenivasan announced the…
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Sphere beta launches
Sphere has been promised as a Technorati-killer of sorts in the crowded but mostly-inefficient arena of blog search. I just got into the beta, so what follows are first impressions: FAST. Whoa. Very Fast. Cool – you can choose whether to search by relevance or time, and separately, you can set how far back in…
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Topix.net including blogs in its results
Topix.net, a news site that provides specialized seaches and feeds for the topics and locations of your choice, has begun to include results from a pool of 15,000 blogs in its results, according to this story on the Topix.net Weblog. So that’s why I saw a post I had tagged “Greensboro” in Topix’s North Carolina…
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The faster the rabbit, the deeper the hole
Ever heard of Moore’s law? The amount of processing power that can fit onto a microchip is constantly getting larger, while the price tag gets lower. In a decade or so, we max out the power of silicon and move on to other mediums – organic polymers, oleds, etc… Now take that principle and apply…
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A convener of communities…
NY Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. at last week’s Online News Association conference: The New York Times is “exploring becoming a convener of communities.” Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits calls that “a leap” coming from the Times, but they did buy About.com some time back, and there’s been talk of turning it into one big stable of…