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“That’s how you know it’s real”
During a talk at SXSW yesterday, tech journalist Steven Levy talked about how he had once brandished an iPod with an external microphone to record an interview with Steve Jobs. Jobs was horrified when he saw that Levy had a case on his iPod. Jobs asked Levy why he would choose to change the form…
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Ice Cube on the architecture of Charles and Ray Eames
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On SOPA/PIPA
Jeff Jarvis writes on SOPA/PIPA: The question of fact is difficult to answer as it is an attempt to prove a negative: How do we know how many copies of a work pirates would have bought if they hadn’t pirated? How do we know how many more people discovered and bought a work because it…
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Using GIS to solve common problems in local government, city planning
Here’s a short piece I recently wrote about a group of Texas counties collaborating on GIS solutions. This will be of interest to anyone who attended my presentation at SXSW last year on the importance of open data and data visualization in government. The consortium operates under the direction of the East Texas Council of…
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Trailer for Wes Anderson’s new movie, Moonrise Kingdom
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Privacy rights complicated by employee-owned devices?
via InfoWorld: Until something changes in the law or in future court rulings, owning all the equipment an employee uses does give a business the most control over its data and communication. Of course, that contradicts the trend to let people use their home PCs and personal devices, which many businesses like for the cost…
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Why Best Buy is going out of business … gradually
Applies to most traditional retail, really. Link.
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B-29 Superfortress “FiFi” at Austin airport
Michael Castellon 