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The Road to Knowledge Begins with the Turn of the Page

February 27, 2010

Hello! This is my 100th post. And, surely enough, it’s another turn of the page on the road toward knowledge. Even though there’s neither rhyme nor reason to the posts that have preceded this one (kind of like the mixed metaphors in this fortune cookie message), each has been a step along an interesting road…

Here’s to the next 100!

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Memory Matters Less

February 2, 2010

Memory isn’t as important as it once was. In the past, the best way to access knowledge was to have it. And it was difficult to acquire. I recall working on school projects with volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica spread across the kitchen table when I was a kid. Anyone remember combing through card catalogues?

Now, all you need is a laptop phone and the world is yours. I can’t tell you the number of times my friends and I have been arguing about something and just turned to our blackberries for the answer.

Today, instead of consuming knowledge in huge chunks anticipating what we might want later, we get it in bits and bytes as we need it.

There was one more point I wanted to make about this but I can’t remember what it was…

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There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes its what we do with them that’s important.

January 26, 2010

Since I’m posting this from 35,000 feet on a flight to Cincinnati, somebody did something pretty amazing with those 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes! Do you think any of the 26 letters played a role? Regardless, I’m impressed (but not surprised) that I’m squeezed into an uncomfortable airplane seat using the Internet.

The point is that technology is advancing at such a rapid pace that it’s almost impossible to fully fathom. I’d add some statistics to this post, but they’ll be out-of-date by the time I clicked “publish.” I always looked at a flight as my only real chance to “get away.” I literally couldn’t be plugged in. But because of some creative folks with a great idea, that’s no longer the case! It seems like there’s almost nowhere we can’t connect.

Unfasten your seatbelts, put your traytables down, and get ready for the future. It’s all about connectivity. There’s no telling what’s coming our way…

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Criticism of Social Media is More Internet Exceptionalism

October 8, 2009

There’s a concept we’re discussing in my “Cyberlaw” course called internet exceptionalism.  Essentially, the idea goes, courts look at cases involving the internet as somehow “special” and treat them differently under the law than an offline case with similar facts.  Critics do the same to Social Media.  Tools like Facebook and Linkedin are nothing more than people reaching out for people.  We’re social creatures.  The internet is just an extension of our primal need for relationships.

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