Category: Technology
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 […]
Newest Project
I thought with the lack of news going on this week, I would provide some info onto what I am currently working on. I have decided to create a library organization software, both to fulfill a need in my life and to experiment with some new technologies for myself. The eventual goal is to create […]
Government Regulations: Do They Help or Hurt?
Cosmic Variance is a blog that discusses mostly physics related news and advances, noted an interesting study this morning. The study (PDF) examined the number of patents granted for sulfur-dioxide control technologies per year, noting at the points when major air control legislation listed. The graph can be quickly summed up by saying that before […]
Could Facebook Have Just Killed Open Social?
Facebook, on December 12th announced that they will be licensing the Facebook Platform methods and calls. In essence if you have written an application for Facebook, it will be able to run on other sites that have a license for FB platform. This could be the shot that killed Open Social before it ever even […]
HTML vs. Text Email Newsletters
I have recently been involved in a project at my current job (Student Assistant for the T-STEM Center at TTU – the job rocks) in coding up an email newsletter. I have been doing research on the side reading blog posts and such regarding the HTML vs. text email battle. For those who don’t know, […]
Gmail 2.0
So I am currently running the Gmail 2.0 code. The contacts are probably the best feature, it works beautifully. Here is a screenshot of it as it looks on my account. Also you can edit a contact right in the mail message. Which is awesome especially give that many people embed their information in the […]
Twitter Becomes Better With More People
Robert Scoble, recently wrote an blog post responding to Phil Crissman about his Twitter behavior. Phil was basically asking him if he could actually get anything of value out of 6,000 people talking on Twitter, or was it all just “eating a sandwich” type of information. I have to say that I have been slowly […]