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Where’s Neil Postman when you need him?

I’m contemplating teaching Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death in my Introduction to Humanities class this semester, particularly Chapter 4 (“The Typographic Mind”). I don’t feel like scanning the chapter and I couldn’t find a pdf or doc… Read more

The World 2.0

* I can’t remember the last time I heard a busy signal. * The Guiding Light has gone off the air after 72 years. I used to watch that show with my grandmother when I was ten. * An MSN article predicts that, due to the competition from virtual,… Read more

The Kindle and “Picard’s Syndrome”

Due to my recent tech splurge, I’m now the owner of a brand new Amazon Kindle, acquired just before Thanksgiving.  I’m quite happy with it. Reviews all over the net are fairly accurate. I like the weight, the screen’s readability, the size, the… Read more

Ten Tech Gratitudes for 2010

(In no particular order) 1. Droid I bought my Droid in November 2009 and it has changed how I interact with people, sometime for the worse, but usually for the better. On the one hand, even though I’m a technophile, I really don’t like the… Read more

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