Month: January 2008

  • Social Networks and Business

    Recently I’m having the chance to view how a business works with social networks and social media. So I wanted to discuss some of the lessons that I am learning in this experience and what exactly are some of the ways a business can use social networks to help themselves. The main goal of a […]

  • Cheap vs. Frugal

    An issue that is near and dear to my heart is the discussion over being cheap or being frugal. This is brought on by all of these articles on the subject. To start with, what does the term cheap mean: of very low account or small cost, frugal on the other hand: economical in use […]

  • Google and the New York Times: Walking Down the Aisle?

    This afternoon a post from Real Clear Markets came up on Techmeme, asking “Might Google Buy the New York Times?” The question is so ridiculous I almost didn’t want to respond but at the same time I can see how some people would think this is a good idea. New York Times would gain the […]

  • Teaching Philosophy is a Great Idea

    Recently the TED Blog highlighted a study noted by the British Psychological Society. The study taught 105 children for 16 months at 1 hour a week philosophical inquiry. The results of the study showed: “Compared with 72 control children, the philosophy children showed significant improvements on tests of their verbal, numerical and spatial abilities”. Perhaps […]

  • Google and Wikipedia As Research

    On Sunday an article came out from The Argus discussing a professor who had banned her students from using Wikipedia and Google. The accuracy of Wikipedia is for a different blog post. The key here is that Wikipedia and Google have been banned as even starting points. I find myself in partial agreement with this […]

  • Trent Reznor and the $5 Album

    Today Trent Reznor, the lead in Nine Inch Nails, was interviewed in an article for Cnet News.com. Reznor was interviewed over his latest expirment, in which he bankrolled an album “Niggy Tardust” with Saul Williams and then released it without any record labels and converesly any promotion. The entire album was made as a free […]

  • Friendfeed Rocks

    For the past several months I have been using Friendfeed and it rocks. The basic service aggregates RSS feeds from across the web. Of course this is a little bit simplistic so allow me to explain. Friendfeed allows you to plug in all the sites where you reside on the interwebs and bring all those […]

  • Bill Gates at CES 2008

    Bill Gates last night gave his final keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Gates will be stepping down from Microsoft as a full time employee, and work at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation starting this July. I watched his keynote address and wasn’t all that impressed with either the actual speech or with […]

  • Texas Tech Email Changes Are Stupid

    I’m currently extremely frustrated with Texas Tech and their email support at the moment. I’ve just converted over my email from being redirected to my Gmail account where I handle everything into setting up Thunderbird to receive the emails here at my apartment. Why did I do this in the first place, well it wasn’t […]

  • Presidential Election for US in 2008 Predictions

    Short and sweet post tonight about the presidential election here in the US. Tonight the Iowa caucuses, the first in a multi-state system whereby each primary party chooses their candidate for President of the US, was completed. As reported by the BBC, Huckabee received the Republican nomination, with Obama taking the Democratic caucus. All right […]