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The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement — Book

jm: hmmm ... but my tweets are important and I"m worth others spending their weekends reading my tweets (oh, and others should walk in the street so I don't have to walk single file on the sidewalks of NYC and Chicago)

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entitlement narcissism jm 20090524

World's oldest blogger dead aged 97 - Telegraph

jm: blogging not dead ... just the oldest blogger

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jm bloggin 20090524

across the world and she clocked up more than 1.5 million visitors to her blog.

Web 2.0 Tools to Inspire

jm: nice slideshare presentation of some of the better web 2.0 tools for educators

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jm web2.0 tools edtech 20090524

EdTech Twibe - EdTech Twitter Users

jm: edtech twibe ... all the cool kids are doing it

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twibe edtech twitter jm 20090524

21 May 09

Scribd Invites Writers to Upload Work and Name Their Price - NYTimes.com

jm: will introduce on Monday a way for anyone to upload a document to the Web and charge for it.

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scribd publishing 20090524 jm

will introduce on Monday a way for anyone to upload a document to the Web and charge for it.

HP hits targets but warns of tough quarters ahead » VentureBeat

jm: HP a sign of the tech times improving?

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jm hp business 20090524

Hurd said, the company's bottom line was better than expected, but he said he wasn't willing to predict that the economy as a whole would improve].

2nd life web calling

jm:

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2ndlife 20090524 jm

But the company is announcing today that its users have used its web-voice calling feature to talk to each other for a total of 15 billion minutes since it was introduced 18 months ago

Google Book-Scanning Pact to Give Libraries a Say in Price - NYTimes.com

jm: update on google book scanning project

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bookscanning google jm 20090524

e company signed an agreement with the University of Michigan that would give some libraries a degree of oversight over the prices Google could charge for its vast digital library.
Only the institutions that lend books to Google for scanning — now 21 libraries in the United States — would be allowed to object to pricing.
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- The American Library Association, which has asked the court to oversee aspects of the settlement, said the new agreement is a step in the right direction but is insufficient to ensure that Google does not set artificially high prices for its digital collection.