From the darker side of the Internet, a UT employee was sued for making a false Web site that included libelous statements. The person basically set up a page that looked just like a legit newspaper’s site, The Oklahoman, and then posted links to it on some other sites. Stupid. And, here’s the commentary we […]
Rumors are circulating about new Kindle models, the e-book reader from Amazon. Looks like they will try to make them cuter to appeal to kids. Get them while they’re young. This weekend, political bloggers descend on Austin for the NetRoots convention. It used to be called the YearlyKos, named after the blog Daily Kos. From […]
Great post on Social Media Today by Brian Solis entitled The Social Revolution is our Industrial Revolution. We need to start thinking about things differently and our direction with the social usage of the Web is a major shift. This NY Times piece discussed some of the legal implications of blogging, subpeona’s being delivered to […]
The Silicon Valley Insider details the differences between Google’s Lively and Second Life. Mainly, no sex in Lively. It’s the PG virtual world. This Yahoo/Microsoft/Icahn just won’t go away, and it gets uglier by the minute. NY Times had two views of Apple on the same page. One was very complimentary about the efficiency of […]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjgE3ltXU68] Looks like it wasn’t quite as hot there.
So, I got up yesterday all excited about my new iPhone purchase. I had postponed upgrading my cell phone, just waiting for Apple’s new entry in the phone category, the better, faster iPhone 3G. Decided to head to The Domain’s Apple Store, because I thought that would be the premiere Apple location. I knew it […]
Taken with one of the isight cameras in here. I look happier than I am.
At the beginning of class today, I relayed the story of one of my students from last semester and her quest for a job. I hope she’ll be blogging about it soon on WebPubNET, but basically she was successful in securing employment for working a personal network. She made a point to come to a […]