Archive for June, 2006
Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
Plato wrote the following passage about the adoption of the alphabet in Phaedrus. I think this is timely - in an era of online dictionaries, computer-generated music mashups and myspace frontin':
The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples ...
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Wednesday, June 14th, 2006
According to a recent M:Metrics study, mobile social media are in heavier use in Britain than anywhere else, with “10.1 percent of Britons, 7.2 percent of Germans, 6.5 percent of French and 6.7 percent of Americans reporting they uploaded photos or videos to the Web, used chat or used dating ...
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Monday, June 5th, 2006
I'm still here; I've just been finishing up large amounts of research work over the past week, an investment in time now that will flexibilize my time over the next several months. Stay tuned - regular updates will resume this week as if there had been no interruption at all.
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