14 days ago
deusx : Why Obama Should Keep His BlackBerry - BusinessWeek - "Obama comes into office as the first President both knowledgeable about and comfortable with the technology that runs today's world. This is actually an important and promising development and the worst thing we can do is try to force him into
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nelson : 1,000 Web APIs - Nice directory of APIs. Surprised that as much as 22% of them are SOAP. Sorry!
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Linkorama : The Short List for U.S. Chief Technology Officer - Barack Obama has pledged to name a cabinet-level CTO to oversee a job-creating national broadband buildout if he's elected. Big names abound
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deusx : Cherish The AIR? Just because you can doesn't mean you should - "the core idea that should be upheld by companies like Apple should be about making things better and less often. Making things that will be able to evolve, be upgraded, be adaptable, hackable and more fun to use for longer so that as a customer I do
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3 month ago
Linkorama : Wall Street's meltdown and the potential technology hit - Here’s an early scan on the implications on the technology industry
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3 month ago
gleuschk : Sciencedebate 2008 - Barack Obama's answers to the top 14 science questions facing America (McCain hasn't answered yet)
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3 month ago
Linkorama : Techdirt: Do We Need a National CTO? - The idea of a designated tech policy advisor is more promising, but that also has potential downsides.
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3 month ago
deusx : Intel cuts electric cords with wireless power system - Yahoo! News - "Most importantly, the electricity was transmitted without zapping anything or anyone that got between the sending and receiving units."
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3 month ago
nelson : Wireless power - 60 watts transmitted via magnetic fields
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4 month ago
deusx : Digital Imaging: Photographs Enhance Video in Absolutely Unbelievable Ways - "Essentially, you shoot some crappy, low-rez video of a still scene. You then reshoot the same scene with a digital camera (with higher resolution). Software can automagically combine these images to upconvert the video AND fix problems in the image
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4 month ago
deusx : The Nation - McCain, the Analog Candidate - NYTimes.com - "“You don’t actually have to use a computer to understand how it shapes the country,” said Mark Soohoo, a McCain aide for online matters, at a conference on politics and technology. “You actually do,” interrupted Tracy Russo, a former blogg
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4 month ago
Linkorama : 21 Great Technologies That Failed - The most innovative tech doesn't always succeed. Here we present 10 great technologies each from Apple and Microsoft that were simply too far ahead of their time.
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5 month ago
Linkorama : 'Socializing' the CMS - Looking for ways to bring some of the power of social networking into Ye Olde Course Management System? Start here.
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5 month ago
mmb : The Website Is Down - The Website Is Down via programming: Can Any of you Programmers tell me what software this guy is using to Jump from OS to OS, and login to the remote servers? [via]
adamrg : The Website Is Down - This was my life, for years.
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deusx : Tinselman: The Mother of All Demos - "Douglas Engelbart's whirling vision of the future; it was the first public use of a mouse, as well as examples of cutting, copying, pasting, teleconferencing, video conferencing, email, and... hypertext. It's just too damn much for 1968!"
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7 month ago
deusx : grinding.be » Blog Archive » Looking at Tech Sideways - "Technology has brought us back to magickal thinking because magickal thinking has working maps of the empherial and invisible human experience that are just now being made visible to all via leaps in information technology."
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8 month ago
plasticbag : Nice little piece on swarming structures that the author thinks could be an angle for future architectures - I'm not sure I like the sense of grazing and herding architectures. Although superficially bucolic, it has something horrible and locust-like about it if you think for any period of time.
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8 month ago
factoryjoe : I, Cringely . The Pulpit . War of the Worlds | PBS - The Human Side of Moore's Law Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: technology, education
adamrg : I, Cringely: War of the Worlds - They really are ready to jettison institutions. Like Clay Shirkey said: here comes everyone. The model for our schools is stuck in the 19th century, with new technology grafted on. What's a teacher to do?
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Linkorama : `Wiki Moments` Lead to Better Collaboration - Italian meme goes mainstream
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Linkorama : plasticbag.org: On the OLPC Movement... - I expect them to decry the project as (at best) utopianist folly and (at worst) some form of western naïve semi-colonial oppression. Most of these arguments make no sense to me at all.
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Linkorama : Presidential Science and Technology debate? - It would be great to get the candidates to spend an hour or two on R&D funding, innovation credits, US science education,NASA plans, cyber-war, digital privacy, net neutrality, telco immunity, role of social networks in this campaign and more.
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adamrg : A School That's Too High on Gizmos - We received some of the wireless tablets, and they are a total waste of time. I haven't used it in any meaningful way since the first few days of novelty wore off.
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10 month ago
adamrg : Growing Up Online: Interviews: Steve Maher
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10 month ago
Linkorama : Belt-Tightening, but No Collapse - Overall growth in technology spending may fall from 7 percent last year to 4 percent or less this year, according to estimates by IDC, a research firm.
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10 month ago
WillPate : Who Cares If Corporate Valuations Are Crazy?
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