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Demonstrating the filter bubble
Five or six years ago or so, Eli Pariser wrote a book entitled the Filter Bubble. The core idea in this book was that online information companies personalize our online experience serving our personal priorities rather than presenting the world … Continue reading
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Squoosh
Google claims that it is motivated to speed up the internet. Among the projects is has initiated to this end is Squoosh. This online service (you can also install the code yourself) drastically compresses images with little noticeable decline in … Continue reading
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Learning in the age of Google
“Learning in the age of Google” was the title of an hour long program aired on the library channel University of California San Diego. I thought the information provided would extend what most of us know concerning the capabilities of … Continue reading
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1.1.1.1
So much attention has been focused on the issue of online data privacy calling out companies such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter. My take on this issue is mixed noting that collecting data that allows targeted advertising is the reason … Continue reading
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Free Flickr Changes
Free Flickr is no longer available for photo backup or for large photo archives (accumulating photos over an extended period of time). I am not certain Flickr/SmugMug would accept this second position, but it is factually accurate. Simply put as … Continue reading
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New Chrome Features
ComputerWorld carried a post identifying new features that “will” be available in the new Chrome OS. The post seemed to indicate that these new features would be coming soon, but I could not help checking to see if they were … Continue reading
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