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NY Times article re: Twitter, Facebook, and why bad tweets are OK

A good friend sent me a link to this New York Times article on social networking. While the focus is on Facebook and Twitter it’s broadly applicable across the myriad of similar sites and services. The piece refers to a social science concept called “ambient awareness”; it’s an interesting idea but I’m still going to [...]
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Ubiquity, a totally new web interface from Mozilla

In case you haven’t heard the buzz about Ubiquity yet, you might check it out and see what you think. It’s a new project from the Mozilla labs, and while it’s still in a prototype state it looks really intriguing. The project’s goal is to allow you to interact with the browser (and by extension [...]
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Leo Laporte’s new TWiT Army Page

I just signed up for Leo Laporte’s TWiT Army Page. It’s an interesting use of microblogging (e.g. Twitter, for the uninitiated) for a community rather than the public at large. Only problem: I’m now signed up for way too many of these things to keep up with. I’d love to hear what John Dvorak has [...]
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Racing through LA

Rockstar Games is set to release the next Midnight Club this October. The game is set in Los Angeles and looks like it will be a blast. According to reviews it’s an open map, so players will be able to drive through LA at will, although they have changed some of the geography of the [...]
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Great news for Google Calendar users on Macs

Lifehacker is reporting that Google Calendar now supports CalDAV, allowing you to sync iCal with GCal. This was already possible, but only via paid 3rd party tools from what I could determine. I really like Google Calendars, since it’s available online and lets you create multiple shared calendars. However, while it may be a bit [...]
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New gadget: Canon G9

I purchased a Canon G9 a couple of weeks ago and have been very happy with it. It is essentially a prosumer grade point-and-shoot digital camera. It’s about the size of a 35mm P&S, making is much larger than something like the Canon SD1000 (which is about the size of a deck of cards). However, [...]
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Sonicwall TZ150 update…

So I’ve been getting a bunch of emails from Sonicwall telling me that my “subscription services” are about to expire. I just bought the thing a month ago, and it has a number of add-ons (e.g. content filtering, spam filtering) that you can subscribe to annually. I don’t need any of that and basically ignored [...]
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New Media Expo August 14-16

I’ve just registered for the New Media Expo in Las Vegas. It’s being held at the convention center from August 14 – 16. Should be tons of fun; some very well known podcasters and new-media luminaries are presenting. Only downside: as it’s the middle of August in Vegas it will probably be about 145 degrees [...]
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