The Professor’s Notes

If you are reading this blog, you have no doubt noticed the Twitter summary on the left, perhaps listened to a podcast or two, and even read my thoughts about various technologies. I have given talks about social networks, and even pointed out that it’s about relationships. All this, and I am left with [...]

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Over at his blog, Cole Camplese posted on the potential of online meetings as a replacement for many of the day-to-day meetings we all at times have had to attend.
I am fortunate that, with the big career change, I am no longer attending as many meetings as I had in the past, and the ones [...]

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I have a rather lengthy blog post dealing with books in “new media” simmering on the wordpress burner here.  While that post isn’t quite ready yet, I wanted to quickly toss out another “thought” for discussion.  Yes.  Discussion.  Feel free to comment!
I am a regular listener to most of the TWIT podcasts produced by Leo [...]

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Apparently, Grand Central (my new “go to” place for freakishly great phone service) was down for a while this past Sunday, April 13th, 2008.  According to news reports the site lost power
Power issue knocks GrandCentral offline — The online phone company which Google bought last year was down for most of this morning, TechCrunch reports. [...]

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I attended (and presented at) my second Teaching and Learning with Technology Symposium at Penn State.  I had the privilege to meet (and add to my twitter stream) many new people, some of whom pointed out they were the “cool kids” (and I won’t deny it! A real hoot!)
A blog entry about my presentation was [...]

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Ever want to listen to music, but just don’t know what you want?  Try a completely random, stream of consciousness playlist.  Go to the search window (see below) and type in the first word that comes to mind.  This will search all your songs for that word in the title, artis, and even in the [...]

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It appears, according to the BBC, we are another step closer to a compressed air car. Let’s start with the highlights:

Runs on compressed air
Seats 5
Will cost about $5,000 (that’s £2,500, imagine what it will be like if the dollar gets stronger!)
Will be licensed to manufacturers to produce locally
uses fuel only on long drives [...]

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My brother (the Targuman) and I have another chat. We briefly chat about the YouTube video that I blogged on previously, and then move on to talk about the Mac Air. As a starting point we talk about the critique that Paul Thurrott of the Windows Weekly podcast gives of the Mac [...]

 

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Okay, so if we were to make websites actually be “people” this MIGHT be how the party would go down, eh dawg? 

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I have a few technology items to write about over the next few weeks. These include the Sony Portable Reader, (and I may mention it’s competitor, Amazon’s the Kindle), the Zoom H2 digital recorder, and Grand Central. Today, it’s Grand Central.
First off, it’s a free service offered by Google!
Grand Central simply makes your [...]

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