March 2010
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February 2010
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Mossberg, Carr, and Arrington discuss the iPad... →
Moss Waltberg, David Carr, and Michael Arrington talk with Charlie Rose about the iPad. I agree. I think, like PC Magazine said, Stevie is ushering in a “Third Revolution” insofar as this is device that is neither netbook, notebook, laptop, smart phone, nor PC but something unto its own. It’s like a little entertainment center that connects to the web. (Still needs a camera. And...
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Technology as fashion item
“Greg Papadopoulos, one of the brightest people I’ve ever known, once made a very interesting statement - all technology ultimately becomes a fashion item. It was true for timekeeping, and it’s definitely true of computing and telecommunications. To that law, I’d like to add a simple corollary: the technology industry only gets more interesting. It’s been true my...
Some news outlets preparing to charge for online... →
Some News Outlets Ready to Try Charging Online Readers from NY Times Feb 3, 2010
By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑAPublished: February 2, 2010
Extracting payment from online readers has been called everything from the next great folly of print journalism to its salvation, but to get a glimpse of how it really looks, head to Lancaster, Pa.
January 2010
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Ten Things Missing From the iPad | Gadget Lab |... →
Can’t run apps in background but that saves batt life. It will be interesting to see what this device is like in a few years given how the iPod evolved.
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HTML5, a mini intro
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HTML5 is the next major revision of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), the core markup language of the World Wide Web. The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) started work on the specification in June 2004 under the name Web Applications 1.0…HTML5 aims to reduce the need for proprietary plug-in-based rich Internet application (RIA) technologies such as Adobe...
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john cabrera - Okay, so hypothetically speaking…... →
Lost: The Subway Map
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“And when Edwards impregnated Hunter, Young said he agreed to the senator’s...”
– From new book The Politician by John Edwards’ former aide, Mark Preston.
http://tiny.cc/UeijH
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Etymology of consider →
It seems consider comes to us from the practice of gazing at the stars and trying to make sense of the pictures people saw up there. It’s related to the word constellation.
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Etymology of salad →
The ancient Romans are responsible for giving us this word. It comes from their herba salata, and it means salted vegetables, which was a method (and still is) of preserving produce and fish and meat.
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