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Buzz-is-the-new-FriendFeed

By alex | Published: 2/11/2010
A lot of buzz lately on Google Buzz. It’s been tagged mainly as either a Twitter clone, a FriendFeed copy, or Wave Light. Its greatest asset is that it pulls from (and into) the ever-expanding Googleverse. It works with your Google Mail, Phone, Search Results, Picassa, etc. They don’t make this as blatant as they […]
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A year with Diigo

By alex | Published: 9/1/2009
I’ve just finished exporting my bookmarks from Diigo and will be moving back to Delicious to keep my bookmarks. I’m not thrilled by this, but I think it works out better for me in the long run. I’m leaving Diigo only reluctantly, after a year of using it in classes and on my own. I […]
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Pretty People Prefer Pur

By alex | Published: 4/20/2009
As an early Earth Day review… If you don’t have one of these, you should. There are plenty of people who will tell you to just drink from the tap, but I think they are usually undiscerning in their taste. On the other had, having water shipped from Fiji, no matter what good it is […]
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A good writing book

By alex | Published: 4/5/2009
Somewhat by default, I’ve been assigned to teach our graduate course “Writing for Interactive Media.” A big piece of this is figuring out how the web is different as a genre, and in fact, a lot of this will be writing for different goals (a short presentation, an interview, a video piece, an audio piece, […]
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