I See The Potential
We’re surrounded by technology and it’s becoming even more ingrained in every little facet of our day (at least that’s what my Twitter, Facebook, Buzz, Squidoo, Delicious, Digg, Tumblr, 7 email accounts, Ipod, Droid, GPS and Laptop would lead me to believe) . Between texting, pinging, poking, facebooking, emailing, calling, posting, tweeting, buzzing and favoriting [...]
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It’s amazing how much technology (even going back to the good ol’ lightbulb) changes not only our lives but our bodies. It’s even more fascinating though how adaptive our bodies are (whether we realize it or not). How Your Tech Could Be Resting Your Internal Clock
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We’re hearing lots of hype about the Apple Ipad this week and I have to admit that after checking one out myself it’s a pretty impressive little tool. The question of course is …. what kind of tool is it really? It’s easy to criticize it as just a blown up IPod, Ipod Touch, Iphone, [...]
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I might really be about to step in it here but here goes …. Do we really need school librarians anymore? In an age where hours of research in old, dusty, musty archival stacks has been replaced by research anywhere, anytime, about anything from a computer or even your phone is the librarian a dying [...]
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How cool is this? The world’s longest married couple (104 & 102 year old – Herbert & Zelmyra Fisher) will be answering your romance questions on Valentine’s Day on TWITTER (and you thought you were too old to get into that Twitter thing). Interested in checking it out? Follow them on Twitter at @longestmarried The [...]
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Ben Heywood from PatientsLikeMe.com joined us this morning for a far reaching interview that covered ALS (aka Lou Gehrig’s disease), his brother Stephen’s struggle with the disease which ultimately lead to the creation of the outcome based patient data website www.PatientsLikeMe.com and in a larger sense what REAL health care reform looks like. Never heard [...]
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You’ve probably heard a lot about the study that came out recently about the amount of time that kids 8-18 are consuming electronic media. I’m reading the full study now and will probably comment on it later but wanted to share this PDF summary presentation from the study. Interesting stuff (especially if like me, you [...]
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You can see the commercials now …… stuck in the rubble? There’s an app for that …. literally. This guy’s iPhone saved his life in the Haiti earthquake but not the way you’d expect. There’s also a touching moment in the video when he discusses part of what was going through his mind as he was [...]
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On the “My Great Kid” Radio show we had a great interview with Leslie Poston, social media expert and co-author of “Twitter For Dummies”. Leslie not only shared a lot with us about Twitter but also a ton about “social media” in general and what it means both for us as parents but also for [...]
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