Friday, January 26, 2007

Republican presidential candidates lag Democrats online

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That's Micah Sifry's conclusion . (Via Instapundit) Blogged with Flock
Thursday, January 25, 2007

"in Gingrich's world consumer health care should look more like Travelocity...."

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That's Nina Eason, quoted in Dan Drezner's post on Newt Gingrich's possible presidential bid, with the perfectly succinct summat...

Not content with this universe, perhaps Google will create another one

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TechCrunch reports a rumor that Google will use Google Earth and Google Sketch to launch a SecondLife competitor . As Jeff Jarvis noted yest...

Open source studying -- or cheating?

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Reporting from Davos, Jeff Jarvis tells this anecdote: Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, told what he called a random story — it’s a pe...
Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Iraq playing cards and mediation

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I'm discussing Vygotsky's insights on mediation in class today, and preparing for the lecture reminded me of the infamous playing ca...

SecondLife at Davos

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Jeff Jarvis is characteristically smart in reporting from Davos07. This bit about SecondLife caught my eye, partially because of the sharp a...

Astroturfing Wikipedia

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In Battleground Wikipedia , Michael Arrington calls out Microsoft for recently trying to astroturf Wikipedia: faced with pages on OpenOffic...
Tuesday, January 23, 2007

More on representations

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Via Instapundit, Jules Crittenden writes the State of the Union speech that he thinks President Bush should give . Readers of the former inc...

Has your identity been stolen?

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If you've been wondering that, TechCrunch points to a service that can help you find out. technorati tags: identity-theft , ssn Blogg...

China takes down Marxists.org?

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China nukes Marxists.org is the headline over at BoingBoing. Marxists.org, if you haven't been there, is an extensive compedium of Marx...

USA!

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Althouse notes that Baraboo High School bans the "U.S.A., U.S.A." chant . Why? Because the students are using the acronym to mean ...

Evolving MMOG

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Bonnie Nardi mourns changes in World of Warcraft . technorati tags: wow , mmog , nardi Blogged with Flock
Monday, January 22, 2007

iPhone launch a mistake?

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Mike Elgan explains how Steve Jobs blew his iPhone keynote . technorati tags: iphone Blogged with Flock

Google's and Microsoft's data centers

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Slashdot says the battle is heating up. Blogged with Flock
Sunday, January 21, 2007

The pervasive camera phone, ten years later

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Slate has a retrospective entitled " When camera phones attack ." technorati tags: cameraphone Blogged with Flock

Microsoft, indifferent to accessibility?

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456 Berea Street charges that Microsoft makes accessible and standards compliant HTML email impossible . technorati tags: accessibility Bl...

Online office suites

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These are getting a lot of positive play, with Slashdot linking to a comparison and Zoho partnering with OmniDrive to provide integrated ac...

Astonishing!

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Althouse has an interesting discussion going on about the overuse of the term "astonishing." technorati tags: astonishing Blogg...
Friday, January 19, 2007

Off the grid

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Strizki runs the 3,000-square-foot house with electricity generated by a 1,000-square-foot roof full of photovoltaic cells on a nearby build...

Client-side editing

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Remove excessive exclamation points with Greasemonkey: With this script installed, trim down any instance of multiple exclamation points dow...