Re: Informing and Entertaining

Human powered search engine
“Human powered search engine” is Internetese that means that real people read, summarize, and rate various Internet resouces. Brijit is more of a serious, current awareness service. The others–Mahalo, ChaCha, Squidoo–seem to be more socially oriented and less informative. Not mentioned is the Librarians’ Index to the Internet which I highly recommend. [...]

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Re: This and That

It’s amazing what you can learn surfing around the Net. New words for me:

Tumblelog–basically a blog that is more like a scrapbook than a journal. You can create one with software like Tumblr.
Chimping–showing people the cool new digital photos you just took while going “Oooo! Oooo!” Used by Scott Kelby in The Digital Photography Book. [...]

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Re: Technology? What’s it good for?

I wanna roll with the gangstas, but I’m afraid that I’m just too white and nerdy ….
–”White and Nerdy”, Weird Al Yankovic
Okay, true confession time: when the day comes when we can plug our brains directly into the Net, I will be one of the first in line to get the implant. Not for any [...]

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Tick tech toe

Checked out the tech news web sites suggested for this lesson. The BBC Technology page is the only one I would consider checking out on a regular basis. However, in the course of web surfing, I came across the following entertaining stories:
From the Dept. of Klutziness, further proof that you can give people impossibly hip [...]

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