Media
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Surely Some Revelation Is at Hand
(Yet Another) Rumpus Lamentation: It’s a sunny winter day in Tucson, Arizona. There’s an event being held in the parking lot of a supermarket called Safeway.
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Notable New York, This Week 1/10-1/16
This Week in New York the Rumpus Women take Brooklyn; storytelling from Sex Workers Literati, the Moth, and Sideshow Goshko; inspired words from Patricia Smith and Willie Perdomo; Douglass Rushkoff and Steven Berlin Johnson talk tech and innovation; and Nerd…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
My favorite NY Times columnist, Virginia Heffernan, takes on headphones. The Times also analyzes a changing television market after seeing what’s on offer at CES. See how designers updated an old classic – the boombox – to make something that…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Lots of tweets and texts and facebook updates may actually encourage more in-depth analysis. Tablets schmablets. Americans really just want more smartphones and TVs. Is RSS dying? Yeah, right. Police don’t need a warrant to dig through your cellphone (at…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
As Facebook grows, will it be able to maintain its small business vibe? The surge in internet-connected consumer devices means that parts of the world will run out of IPv4 addresses this year. Is the iPhone the new Mac? This…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Apple support company sues customer for complaining. China wants to be a leader in innovation. One strategy: Trying to drastically increase the number of patents it holds. Goldman Sachs just put a lot of money into facebook. Smartphones are racing…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
In 2010, people really wanted to get to the Facebook website, using all kinds of silly search terms. Here’s a cool infographic showing how technology use in the world has changed in the past decade. Profile Maker now makes it…
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Danya Glabua’s Tech Links
iPhone users can now text in Cherokee as part of the effort to preserve this endangered language. Given all of Apple’s recent successes, it’s no wonder the Financial Times picked Steve Jobs as person of the year. The FAA upgraded Santa’s…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
A great breakdown of how much each tech company spends on lobbying and for what. Trying to explain to Mom or Granddad for the 100th time how to upload videos or attach a file? There’s an app for that. Literature isn’t…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
It’s a day for (hopefully productive) outrage. The FCC is meeting today to discuss net neutrality regulations. If you use the Internet, you should probably be paying attention. Speaking of free speech, Apple removed the Wikileaks app from its App…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Yahoo is probably shutting down social bookmark site Delicious, and tech types are really upset about it. In another corner of the social internet, Tumblr gets more page views than WordPress, and they’re busy raising money to keep it up.…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Smartphones users skew male among 15-24 year olds everywhere . . . but the US. Yeah, yeah, Gawker (& deviantART & McDonald’s . . .) users got hacked. This guy explains how to do it. Gyst, Myte, and Veer: Role playing…