technology: usage and abusage. By WSJ columnist Jeremy Wagstaff
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Here's a piece I wrote for the WSJ on open source education resources. Free Online College Courses Are Proliferating - WSJ.com Technorati Tags: open source, open source learning, open education, open education resources, education, teaching, universities
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The Tibet story, which has not yet played itself out and may have more twists to come, is one of those stories any media should be mature enough to cover in a nuanced and unbiased way.
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But for me the biggest mystery is why these outlets don't bother to try to sell something more than just coffee, crappy CDs and bad finger food to these customers. You're selling them the chance to feel cool. And who knows what else they might buy if you try to sell it to them?
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Certainly I could relate a lot more to one tree than a forest. Google Earth Blog: Buy a Tree for the Rainforest - Get a KML Technorati Tags: google earth, environment, borneo, indonesia, kalimantan, nokia, gps, satellites, green, trees, reforestation, timber
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Read Reforestation, Google Earth Style (Links)
I often bring a laptop to interviews and type directly into it; I can tell some interviewees find this distracting, and it's not good for the 'hold eye contact to make subject comfortable and stick to topic" routine I try to instill in students.
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Read Laptops Aren't the Problem: The Meetings Are (Links)
Peter Shankman recently told the story of how lazy/dumb/thoughtless PR types can be when he forwards a journalist request and gets mostly lame and irrelevant replies. Now that's gotten too large he's set up a website and list, to which PR and industry types can subscribe.
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I've been looking recently at different ways that newspapers can add value to the news they produce, and one of them is using technology to better mine the information that's available to bring out themes and nuances that might otherwise be lost.
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The annoying thing with social media is that you can't really control it. Dalai-backed violence scars Lhasa Of course the stories themselves, let alone the headlines, aren't exactly paragons of journalistic objectivity, but I'm guessing you don't read the People's Daily for that.
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Read People's Daily Most Read: Tibet (Links)
The Japanese arm of antivirus vendor Trend Micro has announced its website had been hacked and its pages modified to service up viruses. Technorati Tags: trend micro, antivirus, hacked websites, viruses, security, japan
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Read Anti-virus Vendor, Er, Hacked. Serves Up, Er, Viruses (Links)
(You can see the interview here, and the comments are worth reading.) And the difference with Facebook here is instructive: Status messages are just that, while postings on friends' walls can be seen by other friends, which makes those messages social (while messages can't).
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