March 12, 2009
“On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.” — The words of a well-known adage dating back to a New Yorker cartoon from 1993 have been interpreted and re-interpreted, acting over the years as a starting point for debates on privacy and online anonymity. In Japan, a country wit...
Global Voices Online
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Chris Salzberg
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March 11, 2009
Last week, to celebrate returning to Hankering for Yarn, and to also celebrate the launch of Bliss Tree, I announced a contest… Celebration Contest I asked people to list off everything- and I REALLY DID MEANÂ E V E R Y T H I N G - in this photo. 21 people left comments (thanks everyone - big...
Hankering for Yarn
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Noreen Crone-Findlay
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Coding Horror: Why Can't Error Messages Be Fun? - Chrome is a joy to use, and in my opinion at least, it's the first true advance in web browser technology since the heady days of Internet Explorer 4.0. Chrome is filled with so many thoughtful details, so many reimaginings of web browser functio...
Vinny Carpenter's blog
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Vinny Carpenter
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Word of the release of an exciting new project from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Thomson Reuters. From the Berkman Center Site: Researching the nature of news, and media information flows, has always faced a difficult challenge: there is so much produced by so many outlets that...
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You might think that tool makers come up with a new product and then put it on sale, leaving it there indefinitely. After all, if you're like me your power tools are vintage models -- ancient but still going strong. In fact, tools are subject to the same incremental updates as any other gadget, and ...
Wired: Gadget Lab
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Charlie Sorrel
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These are my links for March 10th through March 11th: Tweepler (Tweepler.com) - Tweepler Is an easy, more enjoyable way of processing your New Twitter Followers. View a list of New Followers and classify them in one of two "Buckets" Follow (meaning you wish to follow them back) and Ignore ...
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dominik
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March 10, 2009
Barack Obama’s first choice to head the National Intelligence Council has withdrawn his name for consideration. We can be thankful for his doing so. Freeman is a member of that school of diplomacy that sees the United States as being the root of a lot of the evil in the world. He’s refer...
RedState
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BackTrack was the winner of our recent Hive Five for best Live CD, so we decided to take it for a test drive and show off a few of the features for everybody else. BackTrack can be installed to a regular boot cd, a USB drive, installed to the hard drive, or even downloaded as a VMware virtual machin...
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The How-To Geek
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Last year, vise-grip manufacturer Irwin held a contest called "Tell Us Your Vise-Grip Story" where people share their personal experience of using the tool. They’ve chosen 3 finalists, one of which is this one by Bryan from Chesapeake, VA: As a US Navy spine surgeon, I routinely deal...
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Alex
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As recorded here, I started Tweeting a bit less than a fortnight ago. (Handle is @francismoran, if you’d like to follow me.) Today, I want to come up for air as I barely tread water in the Twitterstream and share a few first impressions. 1. Twitter is the most addictive thing since crystal met...
inmedia Public Relations Inc. - High tech public relations
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Francis
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