July 7, 2009
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Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University wrote The Future of the Internet–And How to Stop It. This book is very interesting for all … Continue reading
June 10, 2009
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Billed as a collaborative slideware application Adobe Labs just launched Presentations. With Adobe’s strong reputation with visual tools I was expecting a lot more. Desktop competitors PowerPoint and Keynote along with SlideRocket by comparison are much more robust presentation tools. Continue reading
June 3, 2009
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This does not leave me sleeping well at night. It should bother you: “When the US Department of Defense is the target of no fewer than 128 information infrastructure attacks per minute from China, and we discover that while DoD … Continue reading
June 1, 2009
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Think the internet is still the wild west? Think again. In a new update of Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World law professors Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu share how the long arm of foreign governments still … Continue reading
March 10, 2009
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Attended Brainstorm 10.0 today and had a chance to hear PC industry pundit John C. Dvorak. Brainstorm had a great number of technology sessions for K12 Technology Directors. The most surprising session was “HD video over IP for Distance Learning” … Continue reading
March 7, 2009
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Its all in the timing. The global economic crisis has placed my latest read Hot Property: The Stealing of Ideas in an Age of Globalization into a pretty unique light. Regardless of the delay in the US economy the impact … Continue reading
January 18, 2009
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Over the long holiday I finally finished Tom Friedman’s book Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America. The book is a mixed blessing. Friedman has written one of the best books to … Continue reading
December 29, 2008
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Get a laptop and give one to a child in a developing nation
December 22, 2008
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Cannot help but wonder what American school children (Grades K-6) could accomplish with One Laptop per Child XO Laptop. Dare I say the ‘competition’ for XOs in America this holiday season are gaming systems? Actually the Give a Laptop, Get … Continue reading
November 17, 2008
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The 2008 holiday Give One Get One program for OLPC is now in full swing. Please consider donating a unit to a child in need. A new print on-demand manual is now available. Looks like the Amazon links are not … Continue reading