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Recycling Can Result in Trash

February 17, 2010
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With so much information at your fingertips and so much being bombarded at you at any given second, you should totally relish in the opportunity to creatively restring ideas. Pretty much anything can be synthesized and made new if you have the brain energy and creativity to do it. But the plagiarists are running rampant.

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True Life: China Hacked My Gmail Account

January 22, 2010
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On Wednesday morning, at approximately 6:30 AM, I was checking my e-mail and drinking coffee. Suddenly, I received a series of e-mail bouncebacks. Why? I hadn’t sent an e-mail since Tuesday night. When I opened the original message, I realized that someone had been using my Gmail account to send SPAM messages without my permission.

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Storytelling Online and Georges-Pierre Seurat

December 16, 2009
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Bryan Macintyre’s “The internet is killing storytelling” was published by The Times over a month ago, but I haven’t yet forgotten it. Macintyre believes that the byte-sized information we consume online is ruining our interest in narratives, which are vital to the human experience. I do not agree.

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Tedium in a New Medium

December 8, 2009
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I have a theory about some of the funniest, most compelling, and most intelligent content on the Internet: it’s produced and consumed by educated and funny people who are bored out of their minds at desk jobs. Why don’t you think anyone updates on the weekends? Let’s call this theory “Tedium in a New Medium”.

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Who Wants to Be a Googleaire?

November 5, 2009
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When you were in grade school, did your teachers tell you that no question is a stupid question? Well, I have to be honest with you: some people ask too many questions. They ask too many questions because they’re not asking the right questions; they don’t get the right answers so they have to ask more questions.

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