Amazon could solve the digital divide tomorrow and turn a profit on it next year.

October 10 Comments Off on Amazon could solve the digital divide tomorrow and turn a profit on it next year. Category: Feed, HackText

Amazon’s $80 Kindle could close the gap in access to information technology and provide the good experience without the bad. When I’m involved in discussions about using new media and technology in education the inevitable rejoinder is ‘What about the digital divide?” It’s great if you make the ultimate teaching tool for the iPad, but what about […]

Are you ready to enter the Panopticon?

September 21 Comments Off on Are you ready to enter the Panopticon? Category: Feed, HackText

When you get right down to it, Privacy is a poor hack. Right now, the privacy controls are out of our hands. Though we may think that editing our Facebook feed and hiding behind fake e-mails protect us, the truth is anything but. A few years ago, I was able to find my grandmother’s social […]

DiigNO: Don’t use Diigo or The problem with freemium.

September 19 Comments Off on DiigNO: Don’t use Diigo or The problem with freemium. Category: Feed, HackText

There are a lot of tools on the internet, some are great, some not so much. Diigo is a tools you should stay away from. It seems like whatever you create on the service may disappear. A while back, everyone thought that Yahoo was going to shut down Delicious and went out to find alternative web-bookmarking […]
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Read Like Me

September 13 Comments Off on Read Like Me Category: Feed, HackText

A while back I was in a professor’s digital journalism class talking a bit about what I do for Student Media at George Mason University. When I had finished the professor told his students that they should be more like me. While I’m not sure I can recommend “being like me” to anyone, I’d agree that […]

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