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Amazon’s Kindle 2 has begun arriving in happy gadget freak’s homes this week. Announced on February 9th by Amazon.com founder, Jeff Bezos, the Kindle 2 is reported to have cleaned up some of the style-points that version one suffered from with a thinner, lighter device and boosted internal memory from 512 MB to 2 GB. […]
MoreThe following video was brought to my attention by a coworker as we both love watching stuff being presented at the TED conference. Alas, this video continues what I believe is a false cultural perception about the increasing general dehumanizing nature of technology. Admittedly it needs to be a bit bias, it’s a Nokia ad. […]
MoreAround this time last year I was very excited to receive my OLPC (One Laptop per Child), called the XO-1. Having drunk the Negroponte gatorade I was endlessly frustrated with Dvorak and other tech journalists who kept their criticism of the XO-1 focused on either Negroponte’s eccentricities or the fact that the creators made it […]
MoreSo FSO quilman, Ashley Belanger, asked me what I thought about TypePad offering free blog accounts to fired journalists, which had her thinking about the role of blogs keeping fired folks connected to their former field. Interesting idea. I had no personal experience but I had a good friend who had done something similar, maintaining […]
MoreOn GeekBrief.TV a gestural user-interface called g-speak was demoed. After watching the video all I could say is that I still haven’t acclimated to using a WACOM tablet because the tablet picks up the pen motion even when the pen is not in contact with the tablet. Gesturing in the air seems just that much […]
MoreMost of my fellow course directors sit within earshot of my desk and on more than a few occasions we’ve pulled our chairs together and talked about things that seem to work in online learning and things that don’t. For starters, students who have the biggest trouble with online learning are the ones who thought […]
MoreFrom the time I voted on the Wednesday before and up through election night I held my hope close to my chest for fear that I was just setting myself up for disappointment. Having voted in every election since Jimmy Carter in the 70s it certainly wasn’t for fear that somehow the Democrats were going […]
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