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Facebook Application: Compare your friends

February 29, 2008 – 3:36 pm

So the premise is simple, and totally appealing to the vain and narcissistic among us. You let a primitive software application pit your friends head to head against one another, deciding which is the _____-er of the two, on a wide range of topics: smarter, more generous, hotter, would rather have dinner with, etc. The […]

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Education in the 21st Century: It’s all about Community.

August 4, 2007 – 7:55 pm

For years, I have struggled to find consistent real-world connections between education and community. The following is a series of discussion points and questions I have arrived at in considering possible connections. I don’t presume to have reached any definitve answers. I’m still trying to narrow the field of questions at this stage.
After reading, your […]

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The Early Bird Gets the Worm

July 29, 2007 – 8:32 pm

Over the weekend, I decided to try to fill out my LinkedIn network a bit by sending out invitations to contacts who might be interested. I sent out about 100 invitations, mostly to friends and colleagues who were not yet registered LinkedIn users. I was pleasantly surprised at the response–nearly 50% have accepted so […]

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Love Thy Online Social Network, and other warm, fuzzy feelings.

July 10, 2007 – 9:01 pm

This video clip’s title–Love, Internet Style– was so cheesy, I almost didn’t watch it. Really glad I did. The opening concept about edifice versus function is one that is dealt with by all lower division philosophy students on the topic of personal identity. It’s one that deserves your attention at least once in life. And […]

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BitTorrent ’sells out.’ Good for them.

February 26, 2007 – 3:50 pm

All too often, developers of innovative software must decide whether to hold on to their purist roots or face the risk of being labeled ’sell outs.‘
This SciAm article gives the lowdown on the decision to distribute paid content through BitTorrent, the–until now–always free, open source brainchild of coding genius Bram Cohen. BitTorrent’s latest move is […]

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