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Yana Nahriah Hajar

Learning to Text: Don't LOL at Death, and Other Tips - WSJ.com - 0 views

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tech-savvy acronym texting

shared by Yana Nahriah Hajar on 06 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Yana Nahriah Hajar on 06 Aug 09
     
    As texting has gone mainstream among the over-20 set, the acronyms have only grown longer and more confusing, giving rise to the necessity of online lexicons for parents and CEOs alike. "
HUANHUAN XU

UN to text message food vouchers to Iraqi refugees - 0 views

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SMS

shared by HUANHUAN XU on 28 Oct 09 - Cached
  • HUANHUAN XU on 28 Oct 09
     
    Iraqi refugees in Syria will receive UN food vouchers through text messages on mobile phones. Can this program really work? I have doubt about that.
yunju wang

Digital Publishing Is Scrambling the Industry's Rules - New York Times - 0 views

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online text

shared by yunju wang on 08 Sep 09 - Cached
  • that promise to do for books what the iPod has done for music: making them easily downloadable and completely portable
  • Mr. Benkler said he saw the project as "simply an experiment of how books might be in the future." That is one of the hottest debates in the book world right now, as publishers, editors and writers grapple with the Web's ability to connect readers and writers more quickly and intimately, new technologies that make it easier to search books electronically and the advent of digital devices that promise to do for books what the iPod has done for music: making them easily downloadable and completely portable.
  • For unknown authors struggling to capture the attention of busy readers, however, the Web offers an unprecedented way to catapult out of obscurity.
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  • For many authors, the question of how technology will shape book publishing inevitably leads to the question of how writers will be paid.
  • books themselves are a relatively new construct, inheritors of a longstanding oral storytelling culture. Mass-produced books are an even newer phenomenon, enabled by the invention of the printing press that likely put legions of calligraphers and bookbinders out of business.
  • yunju wang on 08 Sep 09
     
    Yochai Benkler, a Yale University law professor and author of the new book "The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom" (Yale University Press), has gone even farther: his entire book is available - free - as a download from his Web site. Between 15,000 and 20,000 people have accessed the book electronically, with some of them adding comments and links to the online version.
Sandra Rivera

The powerful and mysterious brain circuitry that makes us love Google, Twitter, and tex... - 0 views

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twitter motivation social media

shared by Sandra Rivera on 29 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Sandra Rivera on 29 Aug 09
     
    Seeking. You can't stop doing it. Sometimes it feels as if the basic drives for food, sex, and sleep have been overridden by a new need for endless nuggets of electronic information. We are so insatiably curious that we gather data even if it gets us in trouble. Google searches are becoming a cause of mistrials as jurors, after hearing testimony, ignore judges' instructions and go look up facts for themselves. We search for information we don't even care about.
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