musings

More Pain for Newspapers?

November 11, 2008

Call me a Luddite, but I loved reading my morning newspaper. It was a morning habit – a retreat from the laptop. But I canceled the delivery of all but the Sunday edition yesterday. Last week The Philadelphia Inquirer was late most days. Cutbacks in delivery service have killed reliability, and my ability to read [...]

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Going Google

November 9, 2008

Flashback to 15 or so years ago….. First came Outlook, bright, shiny, and new. My first email client. It opened a whole new world of communication and suddenly Microsoft had my attention. It wasn’t long before DOS based 1-2-3 was shown the door for the reasonably competent and graphical Excel. It took some time, but [...]

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Are More People “Grouping” in Facebook?

September 2, 2008

This morning I just noticed a good number of my facebook updates were for friends joining groups. I’ve noticed I’ve been joining more.  I don’t really search for groups to join, and I don’t join every group that my friends join.  But occasionally I see a group or a fan site that piques my interest [...]

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