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Apple's iPod touch, iPhone as education tool: Should universities dictate whether you're a Mac or PC?

Apple has been a strong player in the education vertical for years via its Mac juggernaut. Now it appears that the iPhone and iPod touch has a shot at extending that dominance.  News of the iPhone as tool have been springing up everywhere Techmeme. The latest is...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Macintosh, Apple iPod, PC, Student, Missouri, Apple Inc., Apple iPod Touch, Tool, Northwestern, Medill, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-11

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Can you teach programmers to be journalists?

Megan Taylor over at PBS' MediaShift writes about the challenges of getting programmers and journalists to work together.MediaShift . Can Programmers, Journalists Get Along in One Newsroom? | PBS It's an interesting subject because newsrooms are increasingly digital and they need to add programming skills to help...

Tags: Software, Software Engineering, Journalist, Programmer, Ms Taylor, Development Tools, Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-10-27

Apple's iPod touch, iPhone as education tool: Should universities dictate whether you're a Mac or PC?

Apple's iPod touch, iPhone as education tool: Should universities dictate whether you're a Mac or PC?I do understand a need to narrow the support costsbut at the same time I agree that the school or university should not dictate what I purchase for what ever reason.Part of the problem is...

Tags: Desktops, Digital music, Digital media, Microsoft Windows XP, Apple Inc., PC, iPhone-as education tool, Apple iPod Touch, iPhone-a, education tool, Universities, Apple Macintosh, Apple iPod

Discussion threads 2009-05-11

Election Day '08: Where to get live results

There's no better time in history to watch election results on the fly. Some, but not all, of us will have access to a television, where you can watch results stream in on ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC or Fox. But for those of you...

Tags: Result, Associated Press, Election Day, Twitter, CNN, Palm Beach Post, Northwestern, Corporate Communications, Blogging, RSS, Web Site Development, Channel Management, Marketing, Internet, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-11-04

Undercover NBC Dateline reporter bolts from DEFCON 2007

Undercover NBC Dateline reporter bolts from DEFCON 2007With all due respectsIt's good and rather funny to see them get caught with their knickers down. Hopefully the network will apologize to the attendees sure they will or at least show the outing on one of the news shows.more due respectYou're...

Tags: Undercover NBC Dateline

Discussion threads 2007-08-03

Open source reporting starts getting respect

Who broke the U.S. Attorney scandal that is now fascinating political Washington? According to the Columbia Journalism Review, bloggers. Who offered the best coverage of the Scooter Libby trial? According to The New York Times, bloggers. In fact many top journalists were caught up in that trial, and in my...

Tags: Blogging, open source, blogger

Blog posts 2007-03-16

Evolving from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0

In “Web 2.0 = a piece of jargon,” fellow ZDNet blogger Dan Farber highlights Tim Berners-Lee’s recent commentary on Web 2.0 and notes that “For Berners-Lee, the Web is just the Web no versioning and has always been about interaction between people online.”Berners-Lee reflected on the evolutionary nature of the...

Tags: iSyndicate, YellowBrix, Web, Web 1.0

Blog posts 2006-09-02