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 Monday, February 11, 2002
false economies How schools are tricked into using PCs--when Macs are better: I'll add that just because you learn to drive in a Ford does not preclude you from eventually driving a Chevy. Same difference with standard productivity applications, such as Microsoft Office, which is available across platforms. But then, any general operation in a Mac application will be much the same in comparable Windows software, even if the exact machinations necessary to effect a result are slightly different.
For simple elegance of design, ease of use, and economy of operation, there's simply no comparison between the two platforms. If you want to work for the machine, go with Windows. If you want the machine to work for you, go with the Mac.
Furthermore, students learn a lot more about how to adapt to changing technology if they're asked to learn more than one standard. Computing w/Macs will make students far more flexible thinkers and problem-solvers than being forced to stick with "what everyone is using." 6:21:36 PM 
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nothing to hide?Battling Over Records of Bush's Governorship: ""What seems to be coming out of the administration is the idea that public information is a dangerous thing," said Tom Connors, a council member of the Society of American Archivists." 6:13:51 PM
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I love Radio. Even more I love the idea of the 2-way web, however it's accomplished. But here's what I want to know: What is it for? Why is Dave Winer pushing it so hard? Is he just trying to make a buck? Or does he have some vision for making the world a better place through greater citizen participation in public debate? And if the latter, then can any "debate" (or conversation) on the Internet be considered "public" in the political sense? Meaning, is the internet an expansion of the public sphere, or is it simply a new sphere, a third sphere to add to the traditional public/private divide? If the internet is really part of the public sphere, then building a 2-way web that has conversations about more than software, games, and tv shows, could eventually enrich public life and result in a better world. However, if the internet is simply something else, its own, self-contained, self-referential, virtual world, a world with no "hooks" into the real, then building the 2-way web is really a huge waste of time. 10:53:05 AM
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cooperative use of language (aka: the 2-way web)
I've been reading Language and the Internet by David Crystal. Some good stuff, easily skimmed through for those of us who aren't linguists. But what's interesting here is his summary of H.P. Grice's "four maxims of conversation that underlie the efficient co-operative use of language" (49), which are closely related to Dave Winer's definition of
integrity. The four maxims are:
- The maxim of Quality: Try to make your contribution one that is true, specificially:
- Do not say what you believe to be false.
- Do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence.
- The maxim of Relevance: Make your contributions relevant.
- The Maxim of Quantity: Make your contribution as informative as is required for the current purposes of the exchange. Do not make your contribution more informative than is required.
- The maxim of Manner: Be perspicuous, and specificially:
- Avoid obscurity.
- Be brief.
- Be orderly.
Just some food for thougtht. If I say more, I'm afraid I'll be breaking a maxim; in fact, I think I already have. 9:14:39 AM
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betterandbetterMozilla Keywords and Bookmarks - Granneman Information Solutions: "Imagine this: you want to search Google for all Web pages about Alan Moore's Watchmen. Instead of going to Google's Web site, you just type this into your Web browser's address bar -- google alan moore watchmen -- and hit Enter on your keyboard. The next thing you know, you're at Google's Web site looking at a list of Web pages relevant to your search. Pretty neat, huh?"[via Radio X Neophyte]
8:30:52 AM
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I just tested BlogApp 1.0 from Web Entourage Software. Bill Bumgarner says it works, but it didn't for me. And this highlights the problem I have w/Radio: The program must be running for you to post. And if it just ran quietly in the background, that would be fine, but it doesn't. It sucks resources -- slows my whole machine down. Plus, I use dial-up, so if I leave Radio running, it's always trying to uptstream or check news every hour or whatever, which is lame. I was hoping with something like BlogApp that I could post w/nothing more than a browser running, but that won't work, will it? Ever? 8:23:17 AM
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OS X uptime
[localhost:~] user% uptime
7:43AM up 25 days, 13:23
How cool is that? Ok, it's possible I could have gone that long w/OS 9 not crashing, but it's pretty damned doubtful -- especially on a laptop. So I love my new iBook, but why would you ever want it to be bigger? 7:50:14 AM
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