Posts from ‘November, 2009’

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November was a month of taking on more of the “do something every day” type projects, and I think the madness needs to stop. I’ll stop every day.
This of course, is not a promise I intend to keep. I find these challenges very rewarding, especially the ones that you [...]

I stand near the front of the line of people who think that the news and publishing business is perched on the edge of looming change that will undermine them as much (or more) than the recording and film industry have faced. This is hardly “news”.
But there is this ramping eagerness to be the “first” [...]

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Now that she knows all about twitter, is Mom trying to pull an Evan Ratliff disappearing act?
She grabbed my new issue of Wired before I could even read it myself, and was quite absorbed in the cover article.
Lest I blog the wrong impression that Mom and I have this [...]

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I’ve read and pondered some of my colleagues concerns when they find some creepy account or nefarious avatar follows them on twitter. They have to deal with blocking or reporting or just feeling slimy.
My own approach is quite simple, but I’d never presume to suggest it is the best [...]

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We had a disturbing new phase on the NMC web site a few weeks back. Over a weekend, our office reported a flurry of about 200 accounts created. What we found was that real humans (because they got past a captcha) with real email addresses (because we send passwords [...]

Harvard Law prof Jonathan Zittrain deals with big scary issues, like encroachment of first amendment rights online and the invasions of privacy from bad software. His recent book paints a possible dark future for the internet.
So it was a wonderful surprise when on last week’s plane travel I watched his TED Talk on The Web [...]

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I’ve been home a few days now following a 2 week travel route that included the last week in Doha, Qatar to participate in the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE). It was an unusual meeting/trip/experience on several fronts, and I’m baffled trying to find a coherent thread to [...]

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I arrived in Doha, Qatar, after the 4+ hour trans USA flight, and then another long 13 hour hop on Qatar Airways- which I have to say for even in coach class, had amazing service on the giant 747- everything from hot towels to cold beer to meals like [...]

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I’m feeling many parallels between my current training to run a half marathon and trying to crank out 50,000 words for NaNoWriMo.
Obviously a regimen is needed, the goals are both things I question (or have questioned) whether I can do, falling behind the schedule– puts you behind [...]