Category Archives: Internet

Blocking The Big Education (Edu-Junk) Spammers

There are two main organizations that I know must be dishing a thousands or millions of spam a day out to the school community. I have been watching the constant spam spewing from a few sources over the last couple … Continue reading

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Why Tweetbot Rules

I have bought just about every Twitter client for iOS and have found them all pretty much as waste. They have features that are hit or miss and they are all probably fine for the basic user if you want … Continue reading

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Cloud Computing: More Like Costco, Less Like Oxygen

The hype around the cloud computing is getting tiresome.
The recent highly-visible downtime with Amazon is not a rare occurrence, it just happened to be so widespread that Amazon and others that rely on the EC2 infrastructure had to publicly address … Continue reading

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BYOI (Bring Your Own Internet) and K-12 Students: Perils and Opportunities

Nothing New
Mobile internet connectivity is nothing new.
Back in the 1990s, many of us were running around with Ricochet modems and PPP connections on our fat heavy laptops maybe getting 19200 bps around the streets of San Francisco. For New Year’s … Continue reading

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The Real Fundamental Problems Of Twitter

After investing a solid year into Twitter, I have found some serious flaws in how Twitter currently operates. Other recent articles covering the Pew Research Survey are more focused on who uses Twitter but I think they all are missing … Continue reading

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