Monthly Archives: July 2007
Wireless Woes :(
Why, oh gods, why must it be so hard to satisfy the wireless needs of Macs and PCs in the same house with the same router? So we move into our new place, install the wireless router with WPA2 Personal security. My MacBookPro connects just fine. Nothing else will.
I change it to WPA Personal. The MBPro [...]
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Initial Review of Newsvine
Tonight I came across the magic that is Time’s list of the 50 best Web sites of 2007, so I took a few of the sites for a spin.
Given the recent interest in citizen journalism, I keyed on Newsvine, a cross between something akin to NetVibes and Digg. Out of curiosity, I joined up and played [...]
Gibson Schmoozes in SL
Author William Gibson (Neuromancer) will promote his new book Spook Country in the online world Second Life, a move one blogger at Wired called “a clever trick for a book publisher fighting for survival in the digital age.”
Potter’s Magic Doesn’t Work on Young Readers
A federal report shows that the decline in reading as children grow older is about the same as it was before Rowling’s boy wizard made such a splash in the book world. The chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts told the New York Times that while the Potter books were a good thing [...]
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