Saturday, April 5th, 2008
As the Twitter application continues to gain traction with the digerati, there are scads of new apps meant to help users track their use and connections. Social networks, after all, aren't very useful if you can't track what your friends are doing -- and how important you are in ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Well, I took a day off to attend the Cincinnati Reds Opening Day (loss) Celebration. Now we're back to news about journalism. A VC firm has funded a news aggregation service for journalists. The company, Publish2, is the latest in a series of human-search oriented websites that remove technology ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
The New York Times has a piece today about the large percentage of people who aren't looking to upgrade to the latest and greatest technology tools.
It's a good read, particularly coming off the SXSW Interactive festival where those of us using Treo mobile phones were openly mocked by the iPhone ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
When I was writing my piece on Carnegie Mellon's new haptic interface, I kept asking people if my basic premise was true: haptic technology will fundamentally restructure the way we interact with the data stream (or, in a less obtuse fashion, won't all these cool devices change how we play ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Every time I teach a class that has anything to do with technology, I begin by making my kids read "Man-Computer Symbiosis" by J.C.R. Licklider.
He's not known for building anything. He didn't create computers, software or networks. He didn't make the new, new thing. All he did was conceptualize how ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
I've been a journalist since 1995, although I could easily say that I've done the job of a journalist my whole life.
I was a curious kid. Some say obnoxiously curious. And that hasn't slowed down as I've gotten older. On more than one occasion, I've been told that having a ...
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