Monthly Archives: June 2011
What we want to hear vs. what we need to know – is there a difference?
In a recent post I offer some comment on Eli Pariser, “The Filter Bubble”. The short version (the book is worth more than this thought byte) is that Google search is moving beyond search telling us what well informed people … Continue reading
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Can Schools Take Disciplinary Action for Speech “Off Campus”
What is the reach of a school when it comes to taking disciplinary action against students? Public schools may discipline pupils for their online speech spoken off-campus, a federal appeals court ruled Monday in two long-running cases testing student speech … Continue reading
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Estimated cost of Chromebooks seems high
Why is this – the cost of a device without the cost of a typical OS (say 7) is more than the cost of a device without the OS (I am assuming Chrome is free)? iSuppli places the cost of … Continue reading
Scrobbling Update
A previous post explained that there ways to scrobble your music listening data from Amazon and Google to lastfm. I noticed today that the scripts described in the previous post were no longer working and the site offering the post … Continue reading
Looking for a good digital camera?
Here is an analysis of what makes a good digital camera – good recent review.
What will remain of MobileMe
I guess I am glad the pay version of MobileMe is going away. We had two of these accounts and in this day of lots of resources available at no cost, $100 per account was pretty pricey. Still, beyond what … Continue reading
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