Spinuzzi
Reviewing books since 2003.
Friday, February 29, 2008
"Trepagnier believes all white people harbor some racist thoughts and feelings."
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I heard this interview yesterday morning on our local NPR affiliate. It's unclear whether the quoted passage above is KUT's summary...
Early adopters?
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Just a note: Even my septuagenarian parents have given up their landline in favor of mobile phones. Why call a location when you want to cal...
Vampiric tattoo makes phone calls
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Apparently someone is a William Gibson fan: Jim Mielke's wireless blood-fueled display is a true merging of technology and body art. At ...
"Our nanoparticle-coated electrodes make electrolysers efficient enough to provide hydrogen on demand from a tank of distilled water in your car."
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Via Slashdot, an article about using nanoparticles to make hydrogen cheaper than gasoline . Sounds great, but the article leaves a lot of qu...
I almost got this yesterday...
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... when I posted my mini-review of Google Sites, the relaunched JotSpot. As I noted, you need an institutional email in order to create a G...
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Collaborative research environment for digital ethnography teams
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It's cobbled together from various web services. Sounds brilliant -- but it will be a no-go for any research that involves institutional...
Google Sites -- What they did with JotSpot
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I mentioned earlier that Google has relaunched JotSpot as Google Sites, and expressed disappointment that it does not appear to include proj...
Was it worth the wait?
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According to TechCrunch, Google has finally relaunched Jotspot. No project or task management software here, unfortunately; it's a hoste...
Panopticon vs. agora
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Alan Moore has an interesting, but scattered, post on Communities Dominate Brands about the question of accountability. He argues that since...
Another flyer
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Today, I got a second flyer from the Obama campaign. It's distinct from the first one, but it has the same message -- it explains the pr...
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
More fallout from the Microsoft-Yahoo fight?
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That's probably not the sole reason, but I'm sure it helped. Opera Mobile now uses Google search by default, not Yahoo search. Opera...
VerveEarth
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Just got email about VerveEarth, a way to map blogs based on where their authors reside: Your blog Spinuzzi caught our attention. I'm t...
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Flat-rate mobile phone plans in the US?
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T-Mobile seems to be the best of the current crop, with $100/mo getting you unlimited voice, data, and texting. (I'm finding that I use ...
FeedbackFx
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Out of the blue, I received email from the folks at FeedbackFX today. Their product seeks to fold in feedback mechanisms across the web; it ...
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Will killer robots replace suicide bombers?
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That's the fear expressed in this article: Captured robots would not be difficult to reverse engineer, and could easily replace suicide ...
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Jenny Edbauer Rice visits the Computer Writing and Research Lab
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If you're in Austin, please make sure to visit us next week. Jenny Edbauer Rice, who worked in the CWRL during her graduate studies here...
Excommunication
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Pakistan removed from the Internet | Threat Chaos | ZDNet.com Blogged with Flock
Google Apps: The Cons
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Bernard Lunn's post on Google Apps had several responses, including this one: Open a Google doc. Paste an image. Oh, that's right, y...
Google Apps, the pros
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Over the weekend, Bernard Lunn wrote an article on why he thinks Google Apps is a serious threat to MS Office. He correctly notes that ...
Mobile apps will be replaced by web apps
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We're seeing a strong shift toward web-based services on the desktop side, but it's arguably much stronger on the mobile side. This ...
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