Submitted by Jgmize
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I have been so busy lately that I almost forgot to write about my lightning venture into writing a Google Wave robot: Trendy.For those of you living under a rock in the last several months, Google Wave offers an API for the development of robot, which are... well, robots, which when added to waves, do automated tasks with i (Read More)
Submitted by Jgmize
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Zefrank: digital natives have grown up in a landscape where access to information and influence has been flattened Clay Shirky: There are people horrified by this prospect, but the criticism that Wikipedia, say, is not an "authoritative source" is (Read More)
Submitted by Adamsherk
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This week I am doing some client work in NYC, and decided to mix it up a bit from my usual routine. Instead of staying in one of my preferred haunts (I am Mithril level with Hilton) I took a chance on a new hotel based upon positive social media word of mouth. This particular hotel has a strong presence on Twitter, and gets (Read More)
Submitted by Morgan
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Every email you write is an opportunity to strengthen a relationship.If, in the grind of daily business, you’re wasting that opportunity, you’re making a huge mistake.Email has become a primary means of communication inside companies and across divisions - sometimes even just across a cube division! Are you going to wait fo (Read More)
Wired: Beyond the Beyond:
*I hope this insect-brain researcher is off his rocker, because I really don’t want to confront a new paradigm where a mosquito is stalking me with as much smarts as a hungry alleycat.http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091117124009.htm(…)Research repeatedly shows how insects are capable of some intelligent behavio (Read More)
Submitted by Pink Lisa
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Lindsay Lohan treated herself to a little shopping last night as she stopped by a jewelry store in LA. She might have been celebrating some good news, after revealing on Twitter that she's working on writing and producing a new TV project. One thing LL won't be doing anytime soon is designing jewelry with party pal Pascal (Read More)
SFist:
Composer William Bolcom William Bolcom composed two third of the pieces in the program presented by the New Century Chamber Orchestra, in a run which opens tomorrow in Berkeley (and repeats Friday in Palo Alto, Saturday in San Francisco and Sunday in San Rafael). He is also penning a world premiere for another NCCO conc (Read More)
MediaShift:
Last month, UWIRE.com, an edited college media newswire, mysteriously vanished from the Internet. "UWIRE, a popular service that aggregated articles from student newspapers across the country, promoting student journalism both within higher education and to the outside world, has disappeared," wrote Simmi Aujla for the Chro (Read More)
Submitted by Jungleg
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The other day, I wrote the popular 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.9. As usual, most people are very excited about the new release which is now in beta and available for testing. In the article, I made a few fundamental errors which I have since corrected.Notably, I mentioned that WordPress 3.0 would be going t (Read More)
Submitted by Chronotope
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When I meet people and the "what do you do for a living" question comes up*, my new acquaintances tend to jump to the conclusion that I somehow fund my lifestyle by playing video games all day long, or they assume I simply do nothing but write reviews (for the record, I'm happy I don't!)Although many of you who visit me her (Read More)
Submitted by Reechard
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A couple of people pointed out that in my wednesday post about Go, I completely left out the concurrency stuff! That's what I get for rushing the post - I managed to leave out one of the most interesting subjects! Go provides very strong support for communicating processes. I haven't done a lot of hacking with the concurr (Read More)
Submitted by Reechard
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The Go language, getting a lot of attention because it was recently open sourced by Google, seems to be a sort of programmers’ Rorschach test in that everyone calls it a replacement for C++/Python/Erlang/Your Language Here… My sense is it wouldn’t be getting that much attention if it were released apart from Google. But thi (Read More)
Submitted by Adamsherk
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Poor video. For a while, he was the hot boyfriend of the online world. His buddy, pre-roll advertising, was touted as the way to save the industry. Now, like a guy who dumped us, people are trashing-talking video content on news sites and telling all their girlfriends that video on the Web fails to perform.I think it's time (Read More)
Confessions of an Aca/Fan:
Last January, I wrote the following essay to run as the foreword for a recently published collection of short fiction -- Interfictions 2: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing -- which was edited by an old friend, Delia Sherman. The essay offers my explanation of what we mean by "interstitial writing" and my exploration of t (Read More)
NPR Topics: Books:
The history of literature is filled with authors who also performed surgery or scribbled prescriptions. Lynn Neary speaks with two doctors who are also fiction writers — Abraham Verghese and Terrence Holt — about the link between medicine and writing literature.» E-Mail This    » Add to Del.icio.us. (Read More)