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14 Jul 09

Piled Higher and Deeper

"Piled Higher and Deeper" (PhD) is the comic strip about life (or the lack thereof) in academia.

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09 Jul 09

Oh Crap. My Parents Joined Facebook.

So, you finally caved. You've accepted a friend request from your Mom, Dad, crazy Aunt Ida, and your college roommate’s newly divorced mother. Well here's your chance to get back at them for taking away your public privacy.
Email us at: myparentsjoinedfac

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06 Jul 09

ThisIsLike.Com - The Associative Knowledge Network.

is the associative knowledge network. It has been called "Wikipedia of associations" or "Last.Fm of travel", because you can type in anything you know and like, and the site will show you everything related.

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25 Jun 09

Intelligent Video: The Top Cultural & Educational Video Sites | Open Culture

Looking for great cultural and educational video? Then you’ve come to the right place. Below, we have compiled a list of 46 sites that feature intelligent videos. This list was produced with the help of our faithful readers, and it will grow over time. If

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28 May 09

Why The Wire is the best show on television. - By Jacob Weisberg - Slate Magazine

The Wire, which has just begun its fourth season on HBO, is surely the best TV show ever broadcast in America. This claim isn't based on my having seen all the possible rivals for the title, but on the premise that no other program has ever done anything

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19 May 09

disambiguity » Ambient Intimacy

Ambient intimacy is about being able to keep in touch with people with a level of regularity and intimacy that you wouldn’t usually have access to, because time and space conspire to make it impossible. Flickr lets me see what friends are eating for lunch

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13 May 09

How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write - WSJ.com

Author Steven Johnson outlines a future with more books, more distractions -- and the end of reading alone

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05 May 09

WNYC - Radiolab

Radiolab is a show about curiosity. Each episode is an investigation - a patchwork of people, sounds, stories all centered around one big idea. Radiolab comes out in seasons of 5 shows, and today is heard around the country on over 150 stations.

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24 Apr 09

Edge: THE SECOND COMING — A MANIFESTO By David Gelernter

Everything is up for grabs. Everything will change. There is a magnificent sweep of intellectual landscape right in front of us.

Yale computer scientist David Gelernter entered the public mind one morning in January '92 when The New York Sunday Times ra

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14 Apr 09

The 100 Most Iconic Internet Videos [Full List] - Urlesque - Internet Trends, Viral Videos, Memes and Web Culture

Join Urlesque as we count down our picks for the top 100 viral videos that made the Internet such a wonderful place. These are the clips that make us laugh the most, inspired future videos, or even changed the web as we know it. See the full list below an

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16 Mar 09

RiP: A Remix Manifesto

In RiP: A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers.

The film’s central protagonist

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28 Feb 09

The More Things Change... (presented at Scottsdale Community College, Feb 2009)

The Internet age has seen extraordinary changes in many aspects of the culture many of us grew up with and much is not the same- television, the music business, telephony, email... even my hair. Yet one industry has not changed much- school. We'll look at

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17 Feb 09

huh?

Love this fun satire of web 2.0 company----- " huh? is an enclave of new-age e-movers. We use catchy names for our job titles, like Vision Guidance Leader instead of Consultant. Cool names make us sound smarter and more clever. Our CEO is rarely in his o

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05 Feb 09

Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll -- New York Magazine

As younger people reveal their private lives on the Internet, the older generation looks on with alarm and misapprehension not seen since the early days of rock and roll. The future belongs to the uninhibited.

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Kevin Kelly -- The Technium on What is Technology

This simple set of words almost masks how profound a statement Kay made, almost on the order of Gibson;s observation of the unevenly distributed future-------
"Alan Kay, a brilliant polymath who has worked at Atari, Xerox, Apple, and Disney, came up with

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Grown Up Digital

"Grown Up Digital is a must read for baby boomers and virtually anyone else born before 1977. As Mr. Tapscott observes, 'The bottom line is this: if you understand the Net Generation, you will understand the future.' And as my son often reminds me, the fu

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Is Google Making Us Stupid? - The Atlantic (July/August 2008)

For me, as for others, the Net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and into my mind. The advantages of having immediate access to such an incredibly rich store of information are many

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Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Reconsidering Digital Immigrants...

Talk of "digital natives" helps us to recognize and respect the new kinds of learning and cultural expression which have emerged from a generation that has come of age alongside the personal and networked computer. Yet, talk of "digital natives" may also

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14 Dec 08

Richard Howe - THE MANHATTAN STREET CORNERS

The Manhattan Street Corners is my working title for a project to produce a comprehensive photographic portrait of everyday life at street level in daytime Manhattan. Between March and November, 2006, I systematically photographed each and every one of th

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20 Oct 08

The 25 Best News Photographs: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com

In honor of Vanity Fair’s 25th anniversary, the magazine’s editors flexed their list-making muscles to determine the 25 best of everything—from book covers and documentaries to parties and political one-liners. Herewith, the top 25 news photographs.

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