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Will Contextual Advertising Work on TV?

Since when did Alyssa Milano and Ethan Suplee hawk Klondike Bars?...

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5 Reasons Why I Vote Linux

I have been a Windows user since 3.x on a 33 MHz Packard Bell PC with 2 MB of video RAM, which at the time cost an arm and a leg and blew our Mac 2e out of the water (the video memory was later upgraded to a whopping 4 MB to run Rebel Assault II,...

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The Kindle Can’t Hold a Candle to Real Paper

I will be the first to admit that I do not embrace new technology willingly.  A colleague of mine recently described me as someone who "talks like [he] is from this century, but uses gadgets like [he] is from the 16th century."  And yes, perhaps I was a little too harsh on my good friend,...

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Thoughts On Video Commenting

Earlier today news leaked out that the comment management system Disqus (background here) has enabled video commenting on sites that use the service through a partnership with Seesmic. Basically this means that people can post video comments in addition to regular old text comments in response to articles, blog posts,...

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Wikipedia Grids and Reality Television Prediction

After the debacle that was my use of Twitter to predict the outcome of American Idol, I decided to attempt redemption in the form of another online tool.  After doing some research, I realized that many fans of reality television were using grids made on Wikipedia to calculate statistics used for elimination predictions. ...

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