Thursday, July 31, 2008

On the shores of Ontario Lacus

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According to the Cassini spacecraft, Saturn's moon Titan has a complete hydrological cycle based on ethane rather than water (which cann...
Monday, July 28, 2008

Netroots crafting Democratic party platform with collaborative software

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We've been hearing about the use of collaborative software for crafting platforms. The Republican Party unveiled a crowdsourcing tool fo...

"Learning is not to be found on a printout."

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Others have already piled onto the Sunday NYT article about the so-called literacy debate : whether reading online counts as reading. The v...
Friday, July 25, 2008

Android to become a cyborg?

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The latest rumor is that Android and Symbian will be combining, and that's why Google has been secretive and slow to release a new SDK....

It's a coincidence

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I've been thinking a lot about Mars lately, specifically steps to colonize Mars. Just wanted to state for the record that this has nothi...
Thursday, July 24, 2008

Reading :: The Network Society

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The Network Society: From Knowledge to Policy Ed. Manuel Castells and Gustavo Cardoso Policy books are difficult for me to get through since...

Reading :: Smart Mobs

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Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution By Howard Rheingold I've been meaning to read Smart Mobs for a while. The last time I checked it...

Teaching controversies: Using Opposing Views as a simple support site

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TechCrunch announces Opposing Views , a site on which certified experts debate established controversies such as peak oil and the supposed c...
Wednesday, July 23, 2008

The McCain-doesn't-use-the-internet meme

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I've seen this meme half a dozen places: John McCain doesn't use the Internet or computers, therefore he's unqualified to be Pr...

iPhone total cost of ownership

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One source ran the numbers, which are pretty remarkable .
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Friday, July 18, 2008

Telegraph Media Group moves from MS Office to Google Apps

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Jeff Jarvis excerpts the story of how the publisher of the Daily Telegraph migrated to Google Apps. Which is impressive. It also makes a w...

"If enough people asking the same question creates a viable market place, then we've reached the end-game of a knowledge society."

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Jan Chipchase looks at the practice of renting rooms in China during the Olympics.
Thursday, July 17, 2008

Google Docs now has templates

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They're not fantastic, but they're decent. See what you think .

Sabotage

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Confused of Calcutta unearths an OSS field manual on sabotage and discovers some familiar-sounding practices.

Project Lore - Better than This Old House

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I could see myself spending a lot of time watching this show about how to level up in World of Warcraft . Maybe I'll fire up the Wii and...

The street finds its own uses for things, even Windows Server 2008

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Slashdot has an article about converting Windows Server 2008 into "the lean, efficient, reliable 'power user' OS that Windows ...

Community managers for startups

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ReadWriteWeb asks: Do startup companies need community managers ? Short answer: Yes. Facilitating and managing communities has already becom...

The free software, anti-DRM case against the iPhone

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Gina Trapani, who has an iPhone, argues that you shouldn't get one .

Soon GMail and GCal will have offline access

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Google Gears is coming to both .

A few thoughts on Google's strategy

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As most frequent readers of this blog know, I'm very interested in what Google is doing. That's partially because Google has a big i...
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