Well, I did it. I stayed up all night reading techie news and following the iPad chatter on Twitter, then promptly at 7:30 a.m. local time (we’re in Central Time zone at the moment), I pulled up the Apple Store website and placed my order for a 32GB iPad + 3G. So now the wait [...]

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I was just listening to the latest episode of This Week in Google (TWiG), a new Leo Laporte podcast, when I was struck by the discussion of how microblogging, as on Twitter or Facebook, can sometimes steal posts away from “normal” blogs. I’m not the only one out there who finds myself tweeting instead of [...]

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The timing couldn’t have been better. My first semester in grad school ended Friday, July 31st, and Monday, August 3rd, the Kindle arrived. I’ve done little else besides fiddle around with it since then. In fact, half a day went by before I realized Twitter had gone down! I’ll have more to say about it [...]

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I was chatting with a friend on Twitter tonight, and happened to mention the Kira Café, an institute in Second Life. It has been some time since I visited Kira, and since their Play As Being group meets four times a day, around the clock, I decided to drop in and say hello, even though [...]

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Tomorrow is the day the iPhone 3G S arrives, finally. A couple of hours ago I checked on my order with AT&T, and saw that it has been shipped via FedEx, but there is still no tracking number posted there, so I will just have to be patient and trust. But one unexpected side effect [...]

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Here’s a fascinating panel discussion held yesterday at the Future of Media: 2009 forum. Thanks to @themediaisdying for pointing to this on Twitter. The participants included such people as the founder of Twitter, the founder of Craigslist and the Executive Online Editor of the Wall Street Journal. Anyone who’s interested in how they’ll be getting [...]

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I’ve been delving into the underpinnings of several web technologies lately, including one that’s been added to this site. If you scroll down below the Google ads in the right sidebar on this page, you will now find “Kat’s Tweets” — the last 5 posts I’ve made to my Twitter account. That took a bit [...]

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It struck me just now, reading a book on my iPhone called We the Media, by Dan Gilmore, which is about blogging among other things, that I’m actively practicing what he discusses in his book. While driving down Interstate Highway 40E toward Oklahoma City, I’m reading an ebook on my phone, watching the GPS “breadcrumb [...]

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Longtime Scilands buddy, Hackshaven Harford, Twittered this week about a new app he’d found called Sparkle IM from Genkii. Sparkle is a virtual worlds (VW) client for the iPhone that allows the user to login and communicate via instant messages with friends, and via proximity chat with avatars that are in the same location. Sorry, [...]

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One of the reasons I’ve been so upset over not having good internet access is that there are just so many things I want to do that require it. This won’t be news to any of my readers, of course, but it becomes even more apparent when that access is missing or impaired. For instance, [...]

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