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Searching for Media: Hyperlinks from Chapter 9, Searching and Researching, Fifth Edition

Searching for Media The collection of hyperlinks in Chapter 9 of Searching and Researching on the Internet and the World Wide Web 5th Edition Podcasts NPR: Business Story of the Day Podcast (tags: podcast chapter9snr5) Juice, the cross-platform podcast receiver. (tags: juice podcast podcasting web2.0 podcatcher chapter9snr5) PodcatcherMatrix – Choose your favorite podcatcher (tags: podcasting [...]

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2010 06 01 ernie Searching and Researching
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Rosalyn Carter on Daily Show discussing mental healthhealth

Rosalyn Carter was on the Daily Show last night discussing mental health issues and her most recent book Within Our Reach: Ending the Mental Health Crisis. John Stewart did a great job interviewing her and giving her the opportunity to discuss issues important to her. View the video. Daily Show interview of Rosalyn Carter

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2010 05 05 ernie Commentary Comments (0)

Online Python textbook

Invent with Python “”Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python” is a free e-Book that teaches you how to program in the Python programming language. Each chapter gives you the complete source code for a new game, and then teaches the programming concepts from the example.” (tags: gamedev pygame python ebook)

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2010 02 01 ernie Teaching Comments (0)

Two interesting lists – Laze & Zorba

I came across two interesting lists recently. The first is Laze’s playlist on last.fm and the second is an equally excellent lsit – Zorba’s Guide to free eBooks. Both promise hours of enjoyment. http://www.last.fm/user/laze laze playlist (tags: playlist laze) Zorba’s Guide to Free Ebooks « Zorba Press Comprehensive guide to free e-books (tags: free directory [...]

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2010 01 13 ernie Interesting Web Sites Comments (0)

Open Access, Network Economy

The first two links deal with open access to information. The first is a presented as a parable that tells of an inventor who has a great idea and develops it into a product. However, the truckers, the ones who control the distribution lines will not agree to distribute it unless the inventor signs over [...]

2009 07 02 ernie About the Internet and the Web
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In the Beginning … Was the Command Line

In the Beginning…was the Command Line A short, interesting book that is a related series of essays about the relationship between Unix or Linux with a way to understand a computer. This is overlayed with a discussion of the superiority of Unix/Linux to the major windowed operating systems, OsX and Windows. A particularly interesting and [...]

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2009 06 29 ernie Commentary Comments (0)

Reading List

A few books to read that might go on the reading list I use for my classes.  Flesh and machines : how robots will change us / Rodney A. Brooks Here comes everybody : the power of organizing without organizations / Clay Shirky. In the beginning- was the command line / Neal Stephens. Mobilizing generation [...]

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2009 05 17 ernie Comments (0)

Lighthousekeeping – Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson again shows her prowess as a writer weaving humor, love, passion, tragedy, and storytelling in Lighthousekeeping. Duality is the prominent theme. The split we have in our personalities, Jekyll and Hyde, romance and science. Rather than go on explaining the book, here is a quote from about 3/4 way through: ” In the [...]

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2009 05 08 ernie Comments (0)

Man in the Dark

Man in the Dark: A Novel I love reading Paul Auster, following his stories as they go in and out of fantasy and reality. In “Man in the Dark: A Novel“, the man creates a story in which he is bewildered, loved, and final destroyed as he tries to reconcile two realities, and his own [...]

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2009 04 05 ernie Comments (0)

Stalking Death

Stalking Death was the first of Kate Flora’s books that I read. This is a “Thea Kozak Mystery”, and like her other works like the others traces the thoughts and actions of a protagonist who appears in several of Flora’s novels in a series. Thea Kozak isn’t a private detective or police officer, but is [...]

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2009 03 17 ernie Comments (0)