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Disaster response communications: Maybe the best argument for municipal wifi.
City wi-fi put to the test, Future Tense: August 8, 2007
“Rescuers and law enforcement officersneeded street maps, ongoing traffic info and a way to monitor the site. Minneapolis info officer says this is not how she would choose to test the system’s [...]
Feedburner
What’s the difference between feed subscribers and “reach?”
The popular service Feedburner, which manages and augments feeds (I use it for this blog), offers a wide range of measuring services to tell you how well you’re connecting with people via your feed.
One of its metrics, “Reach,” which is supposed to indicate active engagement by subscribers, was [...]
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It might as well be
PHP to me…
In my bio, I refer to myself as a semi-geek: I use many online and computer-based tools quite effectively. But I’m not a programmer. I don’t know how to code beyond basic HTML. I rely on my network of real geeks for coding and [...]
Blogoscoped.com
Google wants to manage your medical records: Good, bad, or both?
First Google Health Screenshots
“Google Health, codename “Weaver”, is Google’s planned health info storage program. NYT says this approach “would give much more control to individuals.” A prototype of Google Health has now been shown “to health pros and advisers,” (tags: info+access privacy health healthcare [...]
OK, excuse me for delving into buzzwords here, but this is actually potentially important. Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently spoke at the Seoul Digital Forum. Someone asked him about what his vision of “Web 3.0″ might be. Here’s his reply:
The bottom line is that he predicts the software we use will not be something packaged [...]
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What makes a cornerstone skill online?
Recently I wrote about my frustration about what I perceive as low adoption rates for cornerstone skills for today’s online media — especially by people who are interested in online media.
Here’s a bit more explanation about why I think learning to use a feed reader and [...]
ABCnews.com
Spies start treating bloggers like journalists.
I, Cringely . The Pulpit . The $200 Billion Rip-Off | PBS
“Part 3 of how America went from having the fastest and cheapest Internet service in the world to what we have today — not very fast, not very cheap Internet service that is hurting our ability to compete economically [...]
Over at CommonCraft, Lee LeFever recently published a great basic video tutorial, Social Bookmarking in Plain English. Here it is:
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Of course, there’s more you can do with social bookmarking than what Lee describes — he was just trying to cover the bare basics. For instance, you can use del.icio.us, a popular social [...]
MyYahoo: Subscribing to feeds doesn’t get any easier than this. Or does it?
In my long and varied experience giving presentations, workshops, and coaching to help people wrap their brains around today’s online media, I’ve noticed a pattern that helps me predict who will really “get it” and use it well, and who doesn’t.
The people who [...]
addons.mozilla.org
FasterFox: I like it, but Computerworld disagrees.
Audience Research & Development - Media 2.0 Intel with Terry Heaton and Steve Safran
“Blogs vs. news. The web vs. print. The “vs.” supposes that there are two choices, and it is the notion that we need a “vs.” that is one of the biggest reasons why traditional media and [...]
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