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Web 2.0: Not So Addictive After All

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Having come of age online in the era immediately after the first Internet boom, I was naturally a bit wary of websites that describe themselves as "Web 2.0." Their pastel colors, misspelled names, and use of JavaScript to do everything concerned me. Articles noting the continual data serfdom that such websites promote only aggravated my [...]

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Eavesdropping on High Schoolers

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

The environment of Harvard Summer School is quite different from the regular school year. Instead of the 18-21 year olds that made up the majority of undergraduate students in Harvard College, I am experiencing "people of all ages, from around the United States and more than 90 countries, live and learn together as they satisfy [...]

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Ridiculous Website of the Day: ReverseIndexLookup.com

Thursday, June 22, 2006

ReverseIndexLookup.com is a website that purports to let you track people by just a phone number, email address, or drivers' license. Despite the URL and title both referring to ReverseIndexLookup, all of the text and images on the page (as you can see on the left) refer to either ReverseRecords or "Reverse Records Finder." This [...]

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My Thoughts on Flock 0.7

Thursday, June 15, 2006

After having repeatedly running into people who were using the new public beta of Flock (released just two days ago), a browser based on Mozilla Firefox that sports heavy integration with various Web 2.0 services (including Flickr, del.icio.us, and blogging), I decided to give it a try.The fact that it is a Mozilla-based browser gives [...]

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I Want My eGovernment

Thursday, August 4, 2005

I found this Washington Post article about the American military's attempts to entice recruits by allowing them to get rid of part of their service obligation by serving in the Peace Corps (assuming, of course, their application is accepted by the organization) interesting, especially since while opposition to it is just beginning, the program was [...]

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