Let the record state that October 30, 2009, is the day that the Cosby sweater began to unravel, stitch by stitch, slowly unveiling the post-apocalyptic, Charlton Hestonian dystopia that is: COMPUTERWORLD. At least in Bob Garfield’s head. In the middle of an otherwise sane conversation about computer programs that construct news stories as search engine [...]
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
I mentioned Net Neutrality yesterday. It was somewhat vague, somewhat inarticulate, but mostly incoherent. I was very sleepy. It seems that NPR’s story on the topic (from the 21st) was similarly confounding for Jack Degolia. If that’s how you spell his name. He wrote in a letter to “All Things Considered,” “I had no clue [...]
OTM Recap: Out of my brain on the 5:15 from Radio Sweethearts on Vimeo. In this post I mention the story about Wolfram Alpha. Here’s that link. It’s not too often I’ll be doing this, as my current computer is way slower than Kerry’s, and lacks a built-in camera. Have a good week.
Before the hard-hitting story about how Japan is crazy for their cellphones, and after the stories about the New York Times’ financial woes and Rush Limbaugh’s push to be the face of the Republican Party, this week’s OTM features an investigation into “digital natives,” easily the least offensive name for a generation I’m supposed to [...]
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Also tagged , apple, babies, computers, Digital Natives, Digitial immigrants, Generation Gap, Immigrants, Intrawubs, lolbabies, macintosh, Natives, typewriters
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
In my last post, I mentioned how I was going to take a little break from consuming so much news in an effort to be a little happier. It’s been 48 hours, and holy crap, y’all, it’s working. Granted, now I’m starting to feel mildly guilty that my news break is going to cause someone [...]
This afternoon, I caught some of American Public Media’s “Marketplace” while I was driving. It’s classic public radio, really – host with a somewhat pretentious name that no one can spell (also, I picture Kai Ryssdal -yes, that’s how you spell it – wearing wrap around sunglasses and making finger guns when he makes a [...]
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EDIT: NPR’s Andy Carvin commented to gently remind me that most of their videos are also posted on their YouTube channel. So I will be embedding after all. Starting next Monday, July 27, NPR.org will have a brand new look – a very familiar, blog-like look with some classy, but Web-friendly typography (as referenced in [...]