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Ads and ethics

This attitude drives me crazy: As much as I like Apple’s position, I feel a twinge of guilt at the fact that the company’s brand of privacy comes—quite literally—at a price. Not everyone can afford a Mac or an iPhone, … Continue reading

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Big ed tech conferences

I am guessing I have attended far more ISTE conferences than your average ed tech guy. I have begun to accumulate a list of “issues” that bother me. Some are my issues, but others concern the nature of large conferences, … Continue reading

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The 140 character limit

I see that Twitter has removed the 140 character limit for direct messages. I wish there was a way to extend the limit for the tweets generated as part of “chats”. As an observer, I have not found the “edchat” … Continue reading

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Auto Bird ID

Machine “intelligence” is becoming quite sophisticated and the freely available demonstrations such as the capabilities of Google Photos make such capabilities available to us all. I recently became familiar with the bird identification service from the Cornell Ornithology lab from … Continue reading

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Pic togo for Flickr

I am very interested in the new Photos service from Google. Aside from the free price, the magic Google performs to identify and organize what appears in the images (without your help) seems an interesting and useful capability. I remain … Continue reading

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TWIT evolving, not changing

Disregard my post on changes to the TWIT podcast network. Leo Laporte now says he overreacted and TWIT will find new ways (evolving) to do what it has been doing rather than abandoning live chat and streaming. Modifications will be … Continue reading

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