Internet

Tips to survive teaching an online course

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At the onset of COVID-19, teachers all over the world have had to quickly move to an online teaching format to ensure social isolation. In this blog post, I'll give you some teaching tips that may make that transition easier.

Why you should use technology less

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We should always be aware about our relationship to technology, and whether technology is becoming a diminished substitute for key things that comprise our humanity.

What it's like a year after quitting Facebook

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Yup. I quit Facebook a year ago and never looked back. Read this post to see why that's a great thing.

What Nokia tells us about the Internet in 2008

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Digging up this early mobile Internet tablet and the Nokia promotional video that it shipped with uncovers how we viewed the Internet in 2008.

Three reasons why incubators breed failure

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Isn't it obvious?!?

How the cloud grew up around Linux

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Without Linux, we wouldn't have the cloud today!

Blockchain for IT pros

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Curious about blockchain? Let's talk about it.

Halt and Catch Fire

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The best drama set amidst the backdrop of the computer revolution.

10 years of Facebook humour

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As I was searching around my Facebook settings the other day, I noticed that there was a section that allows you to download your whole Facebook archive of posts and pictures. So I did that and noticed that I’ve posted some pretty funny stuff since I joined in 2007.

The World Wide Web turns 25 years old today

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Last month, I posted a blog post detailing NeXT and how Tim Berners-Lee used a NeXT workstation at CERN to create the World Wide Web. I guess you could call that foreshadowing, since today marks the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web!