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Rachael Berkey

First Steps Toward the Dark Side

Rachael Berkey | Posted June 28, 2012

Read More: eBooks, eReaders, iPad, 1q84, Haruki Murakami, The Night Circus, Book Clubs, Book Perfume, Books, Commuting, Huffpost Book Club, Literature, Reading

I have a confession to make. I bought an e-reader. Okay, I fell even further than just an e-reader. I bought an iPad.

This happened two weeks ago, and I've already read three books on it start to finish.

I'm not sure if this is a good thing or...

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Daniel Burrus

Will Our Kids' Tomorrow Be Better Than Today?

Daniel Burrus | Posted June 28, 2012

Read More: Online Gaming, Burrus, Education, Impact Technology, Iphone, Social Media, Technology, Trends

In the United States, 90 percent of two-year-olds already have an online history. By age five, more than 50 percent are regularly interacting with a computer or a tablet device. By age seven, most kids are regularly playing video...

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Jason A. Llorenz

The Latino Civil Rights Agenda Includes Expanding the 1%

Jason A. Llorenz | Posted June 28, 2012

Read More: Hispanic Technology And Telecommunications Partnership, League Of United Latin American Cities (LULAC), Broadband, Digital Divide, Entrepreneurship, Latinos, Naleo, Tech Entrepreneurs, Technology, Wireless

This summer, The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) and the League of United Latin American Citizens
(LULAC) gathered their respective constituencies in Orlando to educate, inspire and focus the community on the issues facing a nation as it prepares to vote on the next term...

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Jason A. Llorenz

Improving the Economy and Igniting America

Jason A. Llorenz | Posted June 28, 2012

Read More: Obama Broadband, Broadband Infrastructure, Broadband Internet, Broadband Tech, Ignite America, Obama Wireless Infrastructure

This month, President Obama had broadband on his mind. He signed an executive order to make broadband construction cheaper and more efficient on federally owned or controlled land and buildings as well as along federal roadways. This corresponds with another new initiative on broadband technology, a public-private partnership dubbed U.S....

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Bianca Bosker

Google Now's Latest Trick: Outsourcing Your Brain

Bianca Bosker | Posted June 27, 2012

Read More: Google IO Conference, Google Now, Google, Google Glass, Google Glasses, Google i/o, Video

You can stop thinking now. That's Google's job.

Google took a step toward enabling us to outsource our brains with a new feature that taps into our personal data to automatically offer advice on what we should do or know next. The couch potato web is here, so...

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Bruce Kushnick

Broadband Wars, Verizon NJ Update: Kick the Wireless Cantenna?

Bruce Kushnick | Posted June 27, 2012

Read More: Verizon Wireless, Broadband, Cantenna, Dsl, Economy, Fios, High Speed Internet, Verizon Homefusion

(Fifth in a series. Also see: Please, sir, may I have another?; How wireless hype is hurting America; The great Verizon FiOs ripoff; and Broadband wars: The battle for New Jersey has begun.)


To summarize the situation in...

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Jim Steyer

Social Media, Social Life: How Teens View Their Digital Lives

Jim Steyer | Posted June 27, 2012

Read More: Common Sense Media, Health, Kids, New Research, Research, Social Media, Teens, Well-Being

When I think about the fact that today's teens are the first generation to go through their entire lives with social networking sites at their fingertips, I can't help but question the impact of it all. How is the immediacy of social media and mobile technology shaping their interpersonal relationships?...

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Jason Gilbert

Nexus 7 vs. Kindle Fire: Google Smacks Amazon With Superior $199 Tablet

Jason Gilbert | Posted June 27, 2012

Read More: Nexus 7 Tablet, Amazon, Amazon Kindle Fire, Google, Google Nexus 7 Vs Kindle Fire, Google Nexus Tablet, Google Nexus Tablet Vs Kindle Fire, Kindle Fire, Kindle Fire Vs Nexus 7, Kindle Fire Vs Nexus Tablet, Nexus 7, Nexus 7 Kindle Fire, Nexus 7 Micro Sd, Nexus 7 Vs Kindle, Nexus 7 Vs Kindle Fire, Nexus Tablet, Slideexpand

Somewhere, Jeff Bezos just punched a wall with his bare fist. The Amazon CEO is angry, frustrated, bloodied -- he must be! -- because his company's Kindle Fire just got totally upstaged and outshined by Google and its inspired new Nexus 7 tablet.

Consider these two...

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Chadwick Hagan

iPhoneography -- Capturing the Digital Age

Chadwick Hagan | Posted June 27, 2012

Read More: Apple, iPhone Apps, Iphone, Iphone 4s, Iphone 5, Iphone Photo Apps, Siri

If you ask an iPhone owner what type of smartphone to buy, chances are they will suggest an iPhone. And while the reasons for this ongoing love affair with what is arguably Apple's most popular product are many, one of the features that have made the iPhone incredibly popular is...

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Shelly Palmer

The TollRoads.com: An Abject Failure in Customer Service

Shelly Palmer | Posted June 27, 2012

Read More: California, Customer Service, Phone Service, Tech, Technology, Tolls

At 3:30 p.m. last Friday, while driving back to Los Angeles from Foothill Ranch, California, I needed to take Route 241. Sadly for me, the blue Mustang 500GT I rented from Hertz did not come with a GPS system. And, wanting to keep my eyes on the road and my...

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Kirsten Dirksen

Internet of Food: Tweeting Aquaponic Gardens in Oakland

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted June 27, 2012

Read More: Agriculture Technology, Aquaculture, Aquaculture Hydroponics, Aquaponics, Aquaponics Gardening, Garden Technology, Gardening, Hydroponics, Video

The land in West Oakland where Eric Maundu is trying to farm is covered with freeways, roads, light rail and parking lots so there's not much arable land and the soil is contaminated. So Maundu doesn't use soil. Instead he's growing plants using fish and circulating water.

It's called...

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Vernon Irvin

In Collusion: Tracking the Online Tracker

Vernon Irvin | Posted June 27, 2012

Read More: Collusion Data Tracking, Collusion Firefox, Collusion Firefox Plug In, Collusion Plug In, Data Tracking Internet, Internet Data Collection, Third Party Data

Ever do a quick Google search for "pizza delivery" and forget to put in your town? I did and, conveniently enough, pizza delivery locations pop up within a 20-mile radius of my home. And after I searched for flights between California and Washington, DC, I began seeing ads pop up...

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Alex Pasternack

New York's Giant, Beautiful New Park, Built Atop a Landfill, Makes New York City Millions

Alex Pasternack | Posted June 27, 2012

Read More: NY Around Town, New York, New York Cit, Staten Island, Best Of Ny, Freshkills, Freshkills New York, Freshkills Staten Island, Landfill Parks, Landfills, New York Freshkills, Park, S Staten Island Park

Public parks don’t tend to be cash cows, not unless they get advertising or become, well, private. But the park that sits on top of the old Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island is different. It won’t initially open for at least another three years, and its full opening...

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Lee C. Camp

Apple, LSD and the Kingdom of God: A Review of Walter Isaacson's 'Steve Jobs'

Lee C. Camp | Posted June 27, 2012

Read More: Bob Dylan, Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson, Afterlife, Apple, Biography, Christian Eschatology, Eschatology

Steve Jobs was notoriously impatient. His tirades were so well known that, in the early years of Apple, one executive had the job of keeping Jobs in check and calming the wake of wounded feelings. This notorious impatience was coupled with what Walter Isaacson, in his brilliant biography "Steve Jobs,"...

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Stephanie Hodges

Atlanta -- Still Not Failing Fast Enough?

Stephanie Hodges | Posted June 27, 2012

Read More: Jeff Haynie, Appcelerator, Atdc, Atlanta, David Cummings, Ecosystem, Innovation, Michael Eckert, South, Startup, Stephanie Hodges, Tim Dorr, Wei Yang

A "Technology laggard," an "ole boys network" and, worst of all, "risk averse." Jeff Haynie hurled these insults and then some at Atlanta on his blog in 2008.

The post was titled "What's wrong with the Atlanta startup ecosystem and how to fix it." Founder and CEO...

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David Sable

Story of Evolution

David Sable | Posted June 27, 2012

Read More: Stories Evolution, Stories Technology, Storytelling, Tech Storytelling

Theory of evolution...

Could it be that stories were the catalyst for humankind's rise?

Think about it. What really separates us from the rest of the animal world?

Thumbs? Overrated.

Cognitive thinking? We've all seen other mammals and even other species display reasoning skills, and we've seen the movies...

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Timothy Karr

An Old Plan for New Media

Timothy Karr | Posted June 27, 2012

Read More: Broadband, Comcast, Congress, Data Caps, Free Speech, Hulu, Net Neutrality, Netflix, Television, Youtube

Welcome to the Comcast Age.

No, that's not a new corporate slogan, but the future facing Internet users everywhere.

Cable giants like Comcast and Time Warner have come to dominate information access in the United States. And they're using this new power to squeeze out competitors and remake new...

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Danny Groner

5 Keys to Avoiding Common Freelance Designer Mistakes

Danny Groner | Posted June 27, 2012

Read More: Creativity, Design, Designers, Freelance, Freelance Design, Freelancers, Mistakes, Networking, Work

Being a freelance designer offers some wonderful liberties, like the ability to create your own schedule, but there are some pitfalls to avoid. There are also additional stresses: How do you find clients? Should you specialize in one area? What should you charge? For most freelance designers, comfort comes with...

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Larry Magid

Common Sense Media Report Shines Positive Light on Kids and Social Media

Larry Magid | Posted June 26, 2012

Read More: Common Sense Media, Kids And Social Media, Social Media For Kids, Social Media Use, Teen Social Media

Common Sense Media just published a report that paints a mostly positive picture of social media's impact on teens' social and emotional well-being. Social Media, Social Life: How Teens View Their Digital Lives points out that "Many more teens report a positive impact of social media use on...

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Andras Szakal

A Smarter Government Through Cloud Computing

Andras Szakal | Posted June 26, 2012

Read More: Cloud Computing, Smarter Ideas, The Cloud, Cloud Technology, Government, Ibm, Information Technology

A smarter government is more agile, more able to effectively respond to changing government needs and citizen dynamics. One of the best ways to improve the way our government works -- both its operational efficiency as well as the services it provides to citizens -- is through cloud computing.

Yesterday...

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