Category: Technology
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SJSU Staff Member Forbidden To Talk With Students On His Podcast
Steve Sloan, Interactive Technology Consultant at San Jose State University, has been podcasting since November 2004 and blogging since at least October 2003. Steve writes about how Emerging Technology can, will, and should affect our traditional models of education. Steve is on the Cluetrain. Steve’s Edupodder podcast has featured interviews with Photojournalism Prof. Dennis Dunleavy,…
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MIT Blogger Survey
MIT has a quick survey up. Check it out if you are a blogger. Hard to tell what they’re up to, but it looks like good stuff. Wait a minute: if I quote from whatever research is published from this survey, do I have to disclose that I was a participant? [UPDATE: BoingBoing explains all.]
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RSS hearts MS: What will happen when Microsoft takes subscription Mainstream?
Longhorn hearts RSS. Geeks in a frenzy, hashing out the technicalities and business models and possibilities, but what does it mean for the incredibly large number of people that don’t know now and won’t care later whether it stands for “Really Simple Syndication” or “Renew Subscription, Sonny” ? (HINT: Wouldn’t “Really Simple Subscription” be more…
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Spelling Test
For all the geeks blogging about Gnomedex now that you’re out of the convention hall where the wi-fi didn’t work because every single one of you attempted to use it: The surname of the brothers Dan and Steve is spelled G-I-L-L-M-O-R. There is no E. I’ve never seen so many people get it wrong in…
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Sniffing the Gluetrain
Of course, if 95 is your preferred number of things in a list, check out the Gluetrain Manifesto, circa 1999. 15. In just a few more years, the current homogenized “voice” of business—the sound of mission statements and brochures—will seem as contrived and artificial as the language of Internet manifestos. via Cluetrain co-author Chris Locke,…
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100 Piece Puzzle
If you’re still stumbling around the blogosphere in the dark, tripping from link to link, but not sure how everything fits together, check out the AO/Technorati Open Media 100. It’s not just another blogroll or ranking system – it’s a list of Pioneers like Doc Searls, Trendsetters like Mary Hodder, Practitioners like Mark Cuban, Toolsmiths…
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Chinese Democracy and Other Corporate American Friendliness
On the continuing issue of How American Technology Corporations Should Treat Not-Very-Nice Governments: The Online Journalism Review holds a roundtable discussion on the issue of Chinese censorship and regulation of weblogs. Mark Glaser writes: A recent report on China’s filtering efforts by the OpenNet Initiative called the government’s scheme the most sophisticated one in the…
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Self-Correcting Editorial?
I can’t help but shake my head. The LA Times made a valiant attempt to wiki-fy their editorial page, starting with one story, allowing online readers to link it, comment on it, revise it, improve it, alter it, edit it…but apparently the experiment went down in flames as some people thought it would be amusing…
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Self-Correcting Blog
After a little tweaking of the wrapper and content widths, this blog is now far more pleasant if you’re using Microsoft Internet Explorer for Microsoft Internet Explorer users. Any Safari users out there still seeing anything strange? Firefox is my browser of choice, and the blog looks alright in that.
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Self-Correcting Blogosphere
Scoble comes clean: “In the face of overwhelming evidence, I admit I’m wrong. Trying to justify the Chinese MSN word blocker is one of the more boneheaded things I’ve done.” Check out the comments on his post to see more of the discussion. [Background]: Chinese Democracy, Chinese Democracy Continued