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History

Subtle impact

Twenty years ago, most people would probably say that the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima was the single-most significant event of the last century. Five years into a new century and history is already writing a different story. Yesterday was the 60th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima. The […]

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Diversity Technology Weblogging

Technology is neither good nor evil

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Technorati has been coming under fire a great deal lately, including this latest by Om Malik, who writes: So this is where I lose the plot – I tag my post, Technorati benefits, and despite all that, my tags help spammers who clog my RSS readers gain more readers. That’s absolutely rotten! […]

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Stuff

I still wish I could breath under water

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I watched the movie, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou on DVD tonight. It starred Bill Murray and a host of other well known actors. Critics hated it, or loved it — in about equal measure. I also loved it and hated it, in about the same measure. It’s a odd movie […]

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RDF

Creative genius with data

Jeff Jarvis writes today about looking for technologists for a new start up: As you may know, I’m working on a still-stealth start-up for news and we’re looking for talent, starting with a top-notch engineer who’s both an algorithms/analytics expert and a creative genius when it comes to playing with data. Of course, we’re always on the […]

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Diversity Weblogging

Life isn’t an oven, you can’t control the temperature

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. It would be the ultimate irony if of the individual posts related to BlogHer, the one or ones linked the most were either by guys who attended the conference, or those who didn’t. Having said that, I am linking to one, Jay Rosen’s. Of his overall impression of the conference, Rosen […]