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Twitter Caucus: Government in Action! Print E-mail
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Written by Dr. Samuel Centralia, Ph.D., D.D.S., Esq.   
Thursday, 27 August 2009
I keep thinking Twittermania is going to calm down and go away, but it seems that it’s only gaining momentum. I rather admire the discipline and efficiency required to communicate in 140-character bursts, but the misspellings and arcane acronyms make me crazy. I’m the sort of fellow who still composes emails as if they were official correspondence. Using, you know, grammar and stuff.

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Encyclopedia Down: Encarta Bites the Dust Print E-mail
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Written by Dr. Samuel Centralia, Ph.D., D.D.S., Esq.   
Wednesday, 01 April 2009

I suppose it was inevitable. Microsoft this week announced that it would be discontinuing its Encarta product line, effectively bringing to an end the decades-long multimedia encyclopedia wars. The winner? Wikipedia, of course, which is now the destination for approximately 97 percent of Internet encyclopedia queries.

 

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R.I.P. Ink and Paper: Greatly Exaggerated? Print E-mail
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Written by Dr. Samuel Centralia, Ph.D., D.D.S., Esq.   
Wednesday, 18 March 2009
It feels like I’ve been writing about this story for 10 years. Wait a sec, let me check my notes. Hmm. Actually, I have. The cutting edge tech guys have been presaging the death of ink and paper since at least 1994. According to these reports, filed over the last decade, newspapers and magazines will be supplanted by the Internet, and portable devices, and eventually by crazy sci-fi devices like foldable electronic displays.
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Acronym Madness! CES, VOD and 3DTV Print E-mail
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Written by Dr. Samuel Centralia, Ph.D., D.D.S., Esq.   
Thursday, 15 January 2009
Still sleeping off my hangover from the Consumer Electronics Show. Not from booze -- I gave that up after the infamous MIT Nuclear Reactor Lab Tequila Incident of 1992. No, instead I got caught up in all the 3D TV excitement. Predictably, the show was rather tame this year due to the economy, and 3D TV was among the few recognizable hype spots. Unfortunately, sideband frequencies in 3D throughput tend to trigger my acid flashbacks. I just woke up. In Reno. Again.
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