Information Maven: Greg Meyer

For someone who remembers paying $2000 for an Apple Macintosh SE, the concept of a $100 laptop is positively mind-boggling. Ok, I suppose in basic form it’s not that different than the mini-computers many of us use to make cellular phone calls, but it’s still impressive nonetheless.
My friend Ethan Zuckerman writes about the current […]

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While looking for random information, I found Volunteer Match, a location-based search for finding volunteer opportunities. Nifty stuff.

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It’s not every day that you see something really interesting on the sidewalk.
Here are some amazing (and I believe, unretouched) photos of sidewalk art.

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It looks, once again, that user experience on the web drives sales. This should probably not be news for anyone who’s used the web in the last few years, but a survey released today confirms this fact.
ComputerWorld notes that price is not always the main driver for success. I can attest to this; […]

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I found a very interesting if somewhat geeky piece on social bookmarking today. D-Lib (no, not a rapper but a digital library project) is an entirely online magazine supported by our friends at DARPA. Incidentally, they also published a case study of Conotea, a scientific tool for this purpose.
So why is DARPA […]

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