Circa 1994 (age 8), my mom took me to the El Cajon branch of the San Diego library, where they had just gotten a computer with “The Internet”. They had this old librarian running the show to use it, and when it was my turn she brought up WebCrawler and asked what I wanted to [...]
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Fun with Facebook Likes
I really like the new (well not so new any more) feature on facebook that lets you like pages/topics/interests etc. It came to my attention though that the word “like” can be an awkward term for some instances. Say for example, you’re interested in poverty and the issues surrounding a certain ethnic group~ this is [...]
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Remembering to Use Technology
I recently took a 1 day seminar at the Knight Digital Media Center that served as an overview of using new media [primarily in journalism] but also for our new website. For me, it really was more validation, but they explained things in a clear way to my coworkers that I have always struggled with. [...]
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I don’t give a Woot
For some reason everytime there is a woot off, I just think of the movie Face/Off. It’s a crappy photoshop for sure, but honestly, the more I was staring and thinking of this movie, the more and more sad I got. At the same time, mid-90′s action style movies have kind of gone by the [...]
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