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Archive for July 2008

SoCal Earthquake, Twitter and the Portability of Communication Mediums

In Ideas on 30 July 2008 with Comments

The 5.4 magnitude earthquake that struck near Los Angeles is old news now. However, after reading articles about twitter’s ability to break news fast, I realized the importance of having multiple communication mediums. Sometimes, it seems like having a phone, blog, AIM, Twitter, and Facebook seem overly redundant, but redundancy is all too important in [...]

Half Broken Phone

In Events on 29 July 2008 with Comments

I seem to be having a string of bad luck this summer. The latest victim is my 2+ year cell phone. I believe someone stepped on it while I was playing basketball.

Amazingly, it can still make phone calls with just the bottom half! That’s pretty awesome. The bad part is that I have lost everyone’s [...]