Technology

Thoughts on the internet, technology, social media, etc.

  • Infographic: Comparing Ebooks and Books

    Listing as a book reviewer at the Indie View has opened my world to a dynamic culture of ebook authors. Warren Adler wrote an interesting piece at the Huffington Post about new industries and perspectives that have developed as a result of the ebook. There is also a good article about the democratizing of the

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  • Coupon Audit Top 100 Book Blogs (I’m #93)

    An infographic by the team at CouponAudit

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  • What Would Andy Say?

    I liked to listen for NEW WAYS to say old things and OLD WAYS to say new things. : Andy Warhol (1980), Popism: The Warhol Sixties It’s natural to wonder what Andy Warhol would have thought about “social media” if he were alive today. He made his name selling Pop Art and using “new media.”

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  • The Speech I Wanted to Give

    [This is the speech I wanted to give to a group of grade 4 – 12 students but didn’t because I thought an outline would suffice.] How many of you have heard of Twitter? Who can explain what Twitter is? Do you know what it’s called when you post on Twitter? Now, can anyone tell

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  • The Wonderful World

    On Wikipedia, media theorist, Marshall McLuhan, is credited with coining the term “Global Village” in the early 1960s. Back then, the Village was built with radio and television broadcasts. Today the Village is being built with Internet and Web technologies. Regardless of the technologies, Global Village still refers to the collapsing of barriers and the

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  • Good to Code (or Insatiable Text Drive)

    A friend sent me the video above after my post on Tom Bronson’s presentation. Then I found this video…

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  • Text Drive

    Among the more interesting workshop topics at this year’s National Middle School Association conference was text messaging as an educational tool. The workshop was called: If You Can’t Beat ’em… Staying true to the title of his workshop, presenter Tom Bronson asserted that currently banned or discouraged student behavior of sending text messages during class

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  • Making Face(book)s

    There was a time my teachers existed only within the four walls of their classrooms. At the end of the day, after they ushered us to the school yard (the school’s lobby when it rained) for dismissal, they faded back into the dimly lit corridors of the school. Not to be seen until the next

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Vincent Young