Going to try a bit of an experiment, using +Daniel Treadwell's WordPress plugin. I'm going to write here, using the Google+ tools and such, and then let it cross-post to my blog…effectively, going to try using Google+ as my blogging engine for a bit.
We'll see how this goes. Would love feedback if you have any.
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refix”>+Daniel Treadwell's Google+ to WordPress plugin. Let's see how this works.
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Wish the light had been better, but for a from-the-hip shot with no real prep, I like it.
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Here's a much better take on my G+ post from last week re: people complaining about Apple. +Harry McCracken says it better than I did:
"If you think people who use Apple products are prisoners, you’re essentially accusing them of being too stupid to make their own decisions. At least Stallman explicitly calls them fools! Raymond, with his pretty-window-treatment metaphor, apparently thinks Apple users are style-obsessed fetishists, too dim to make the right purchasing decisions. "
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A Strange Sort of Prison, a Strange Sort of Freedom
Free software advocate and GNU creator Richard Stallman has blogged that he's glad Steve Jobs is gone. That's, um, gauche. But it's not why I bring up his post. He also calls Jobs "the pioneer of the …
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I swear I will scream if I have to read one more comment that mentioned how Amazon's Kindle Fire is "just as locked down" as the iPad, like that's a bad thing. Seriously, people…do you complain that your Microwave uses proprietary parts? That you can't run arbitrary programs on your toaster? Seriously?
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ass=”proflinkPrefix”>+Kevin Kelly, riffing off of Arthur C. Clarke: "This is the futurist's dilemma: Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable. Either way, a futurist can't win. He is either dismissed or wrong."
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The Technium: The Futurist's Dilemma
The Technium. kk lifestream. *Lifestream; *The Technium; *Cool Tools; *True Films; *Screen Pub; *Quantified Self; *New Rules; *Street Use; *Asia Grace. FEEDS RSS feed. Most Popular Postings; Tech Shop…
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My post summarizing yesterday's Amazon Kindle announcements, with some thoughts on how it effects libraries.
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Ready, Aim….Fire! | ALA TechSource
Submitted by Jason Griffey on September 28, 2011 – 10:36pm. That explosion you heard today? That was the sound of a thousand heads hitting a thousand desks over at Barnes & Noble HQ today as Amazo…
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She's not even 4, and she begged me months ago to try a small one of these in a mall. Now she's convinced that they are the best things on earth and she must do them anytime there is one in sight.
She's awesome.
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Really interesting take on design choices for devices…going to have to think about this for a bit.
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Hands Per Device (HPD)
Hands-per-device, or HPD, is an alternative approach to efficiently designing interactive content and applications for a today's multi-platform ecosystem.
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Apple is now within $20 Billion of the combined Market Cap of Microsoft & Google. And as MG says, they still haven't announced the iPhone5, or the iPad3.
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apple is approaching $400 billion market cap
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parislemon • It has been almost a month since Steve Jobs…
It has been almost a month since Steve Jobs officially stepped down as CEO of Apple. Today the stock is literally off-the-charts at a new all-time high. Apple’s market cap is now nearly $25 billion……
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