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People who just don’t get it

sharky - May 5, 2010

Geekosystem reports this nugget about the news coverage of the recent attempted bombing in Times Square, New York.CNN anchor Don Lemon, speaking to former...

More on privacy and schools

sharky - May 5, 2010

The Badger Herald, campus newspaper of the University of Wisconsiin at Madison, reports that an Arizona university is chipping its students to monitor classroom...

School didn’t mean to spy on students, says report from … school

sharky - May 5, 2010

A school board in Pennsylvania that started a privacy firestorm by activating the Webcams on its students' school-issued laptops has been cleared of wrongdoing...

A question of priorities

sharky - April 16, 2010

Mobile telephony is critical in the developing world. The infrastructure is cheaper and easier to deploy. It can connect far-flung rural areas with urban...

Goin’ straight

sharky - March 12, 2010

We all have that friend who shares too much. When social interaction was mostly by phone or face-to-face, that was merely an annoyance. But...

Bank freezes account over ‘objectionable’ blog

sharky - February 25, 2010

Disturbing news from from Seattle entrepreneur Mark Maunder, CEO of Feedjit.com and founder of WorkZoo (bought by Jobster in 2005). Maunder's friend and fellow...

Seuss-a-phone?

sharky - February 24, 2010

A Kindle is fineif you're older than mebut what of you're onlya child of three? Just text on a backgroundwill never amusea demographic raisedon Dr....

Crowdsourcing history

sharky - February 23, 2010

Since the day Wikipedia was launched (Jan. 15, 2001, according to, ahem, Wikipedia), there's been debate over the merits of the crowdsourced encyclopedia. On the...

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