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1.  Pick a fistfight over which application is better: Tweetdeck or Tweetie. 2.  Insist on prefacing your sentences with “@ .” 3.  Say, “Whoa, you are way cuter in your avatar.” * Thr33s is a column created by slackers inspired by 5ives. Feel free to post...
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Last week, there were some major revelations about who owns what in the 2.0 world.  We decided to summarize what we learned in order to help you keep track of your digital footprint. Twitter What they own:  All of your tweets – public or protected What you own:  The ability to protect your tweets...
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In the style of “first comes love, then comes marriage” First name’s Palm, last name’s Pre, you don’t get to play with me. In the style of… Have fun listening to your Zunes.  Lots of luck without iTunes. In the style of “Bubblegum, Bubblegum, in a dish” Directions: Circle up in group. Each person...
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I am as big a fan of efficiency as anyone. Though I enjoy the smell of old books, I don’t miss looking through library stacks when deadlines approach. However, I do wonder what negatives will result from tools that provide instant access to heretofore unthinkably vast repositories of knowledge. I was recently introduced to...
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This is why the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments are important. When the FCC Visits, It Doesn’t Bother to Knock If you have a wireless router, a cellphone or a cordless phone in your office or home, the Federal Communications Commission says it has the right to walk right in without a warrant at any...
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“In an age where participatory democracy is seen to be in decline, the emergence of the internet as a tool for communication seems variously to be an agency for that breakdown of democracy, yet also a vehicle for mass communication and political participation on a scale exceeding anything our governments have yet been able...
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Like RustedJesus’s mom, my mom may be changing too.  While she does not really “get” Web 2.0 (I mean, c’mon, she’s still using an AOL e-mail address), she did forward me this video: Maybe she’s learning?  I mean, she is on Facebook.
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Like RustedJesus’s mom, my mom may be changing too.  While she does not really “get” Web 2.0 (I mean, c’mon, she’s still using an AOL e-mail address), she did forward me this video: Maybe she’s learning?  I mean, she is on Facebook.
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———- Forwarded message ———- From: Date: Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:18 PM Subject: hey there To: recipients Hello, hey where have you been recently ? I did not get any mail from you for a long time. Anyway, I found a very quality online pharmacy. I ordered some meds and I got them...
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I was surprised and gladdened by the Washington Post’s story on the digital divide Saturday – One Step Off the Superhighway by Cecelia Kang. Whereas serious weight has been given to the Pew Study that found 2/3 of those without broadband don’t want it, few writers express an understanding that those that “don’t want...
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