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Improving social media
This is an interesting discussion by those who want to understand and improve social media. As I understand the position of the guest on this podcast, two things are important for improving social media. First, we need more options with … Continue reading
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Automatic Summarization
Summarization is one way to encourage better reading comprehension. It is an external process (an assignment) that causes a reader to act on the information a reader gathers from a document. The idea is that this external activity encourages productive … Continue reading
YouTube Transcript Tricks
YouTube offers viewers some text transcript features I am guessing are unfamiliar to most. The following offers two examples. To generate a transcript record you could save or use to return to specific points in the video. Below the video … Continue reading
Chrome Flex
Chrome Flex has been available for a couple of months now, but I had to wait until I returned home from my winter break and had access to a couple of old computers and a flash drive. One of the … Continue reading
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Decentralized Twitter
You may have read something about Jack Dorsey, Twitter founder, lamenting the social media platform that he created. “The days of Usenet, IRC, the web… even email (w PGP)… were amazing,” Mr Dorsey tweeted. “Centralising discovery and identity into corporations … Continue reading
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History of the e-book business
This article from Publishers Weekly offers a history of e-book issues and explains the multiple legal issues encountered along the way. Amazon, Apple, and Google have each been involved in shaping present publishing practices that while online have also drastically … Continue reading
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