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PBwiki

2006-02-15T15:04:14Z

I have been using a local Wiki to manage my dissertation. I choose a local wiki for various reasons, the biggest of which was that when I started I didn't have broadband internet access so using an on-line wiki was not very practical. Neverth...

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Making Video Games kill critical thought

2005-12-15T05:58:02Z

It's a sad day for our culture when we dumb down our video games because they are encouraging original thought: "We really just needed to make the game a lot more accessible to a much broader player base ... There was lots of reading, much too mu...

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Mapping a City's Cultural Influence

2005-10-18T14:05:49Z

The CommonCensus Map Project is an attempt to show the 'spheres of influence' of different cities in the US. It only takes twelve clicks to add how you identify to the the database. It look like a fun project so give it a click.

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Google Reader

2005-10-07T22:00:29Z

Google now has a news reader. It sucks! Link: Reader

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The Kodak paradigm

2005-07-18T04:09:54Z

Truer words were never spoken: The Kodak paradigm suggests that a radical decrease in cost will lead to a transformation in [camera] usage, and that's exactly what we're starting to see. Many amateur digital photographers are choosing to capture ...

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Apple and Tivo sitting in a tree?

2005-02-24T06:19:23Z

I love the Tivo I bought Sam for Christmas, but news on the street is that Tivo is in trouble. In fact, the Tivo Deathwatch has already begun. This raises the question of whether or not a knight in shining armor will ride to Tivo's rescue. One ru...

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Et tu Powerpoint?

2005-02-22T07:07:13Z

So I was reading a story about the idea that artificial intelligence could someday be used to fight wars and I discovered this most disturbing sentence: Already schematized into PowerPoint presentations with tangled colored arrows, talking points...

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I don't know who you are anymore

2005-02-20T16:59:50Z

I've noticed something strange amongst my friends in the last two weeks. None of them seem to be aware of Bit Torrent. This seems surprising to me because the program results in 35% of all internet traffic and my friends are mostly geeks (or clos...

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Google Phone?

2005-01-25T00:25:34Z

Is Google really going to offer free telephone service?

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No Surprise

2005-01-25T00:02:54Z

This comes as no surprise, but web users do not know the difference between sponsored and non-sponsored results on search engines: Only one in six users of internet search engines can tell the difference between unbiased search results and paid a...

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