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Friday, November 09, 2007

Writing Research across Borders

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WRAB '08 is in February: Writing Research Across Borders An Interdisciplinary Conference February 22-24, 2008 University of California, ...
Thursday, November 08, 2007

New browser versions

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Opera Mini 4 is out. So is the Flock update . Opera Mini™ - Free mobile Web browser for your phone Blogged with Flock

Buzzword preview

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UPDATE : Virtual Ubiquity informed me that Buzzword does allow exports to .doc, .rtf, and Word 2003 xml via the Save As dialog. Apparently t...

Things to remember as you apply for a tenure-track job

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Generally sage advice. If you're finishing up your dissertation and going on the market this year, take a look. An Open Letter to ABD Jo...
Tuesday, November 06, 2007

The safest place to sit when you visit Austin

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UT creates global security chair - Austin Business Journal: Blogged with Flock
Monday, November 05, 2007

In Japan, PCs are losing market share

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... to mobile phones, gaming consoles, etc. Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » PCs being pushed aside in Japan Blogged with Flock

Buy the electricity, get the car free

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Based on the fact that in England, the average used car costs less than a year's worth of fuel for it. The Long Tail: Next: Free Cars! ...
Friday, November 02, 2007

Did Google buy Jaiku for its lifestreaming capabilities?

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That's one theory from an admittedly biased perspective. Some More Insight Into Google’s Acquisition of Jaiku | Lifestream Blog Blogged...

First GDocs, then the gPhone, then OpenSocial, now this

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Google is jabbing tiny needles into every sector Microsoft covers, isn't it? Google PC At Wal-Mart for $200 Blogged with Flock

Students writing for Wikipedia?

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Slashdot published this article as if this notion is revolutionary, but haven't people been doing this for years? Slashdot | Students As...

OpenSocial roundup at Fast Company

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More analysis than you probably wanted to see. Yesterday's big news was that MySpace is on board and has been for months. Technology: Th...

Not plaigiarism, just different cultural norms

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Recently an anthropology professor claimed that the Army's counterinsurgency manual plaigiarized anthropology texts and did it badly. To...
Thursday, November 01, 2007

Accessibility roundup

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Things are busy in the world of web accessibility issues. Among the topics: Section 508 to be updated . About time, given how outdated some ...

Reading :: Digital Writing Research

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Digital Writing Research: Technologies, Methodologies, and Ethical Issues Edited by Heidi A. McKee and Danielle Nicole DeVoss I have been he...

Reading :: Writing for the Government

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Writing for the Government By Libby Allison and Miriam F. Williams Writing for the Government comes out of the Allyn & Bacon Series in ...

Reading :: Computation and Human Experience

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Computation and Human Experience By Philip E. Agre A while back, I reviewed a manuscript for Cambridge and they gave me a ton of books in li...
Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Fake Steve Jobs on the gPhone

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This sounds just about right. FSJ jokes that the gPhone is scheduled to be released in 2008, but only in beta form, with a target date of 20...

Google OpenSocial revealed, coming Thursday

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TechCrunch reports on Google's new social move, which is not a social network as was previously suggested. What they haven’t done is lau...

Was the Counter-Insurgency Manual Plagiarized?

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Some allege that the chapter on anthropology was a third-rate cut job. Counter-Insurgency Manual Plagiarized? | Danger Room from Wired.com ...
Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Google vs. PowerPoint deathmatch

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On Slate, Paul Boutin asks: Can Google's presentation software compete with PowerPoint? He tests the proposition by convincing "the...
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