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A few things you might not have known about email

Sometimes email is considered a Web 1.0 technology, when in fact it predates the web. SMTP is part of the most basic plumbing on the net and has several advantages over newer, faster, “real-time” interactions.

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Ada Lovelace Day: Florence Nightingale

March 24th is Ada Lovelace day with the intent of highlighting the achievements of women in technology. My contribution to this effort is an article about Florence Nightingale and her invention of visualizations and methods to improve the health and lives of everyone.

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Print on Demand

The world of print has always been too complicated, expensive and elusive for most people, but now under economic pressures, doors that were never available are slowly being pried open so that we can print to a heidelberg just as easy as an inkjet.

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Have Gun, Will Travel

The ever popular CV, it’s that thing you update every once and awhile when you have too. More recently, the buzz words “living document” have been bantered around when discussing business plans and resumes and it is important to keep your CV up to date, but maybe not for the reasons you’d expect.

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TweetCC a Creative Commons Journey

The microblogging platform Twitter has become a phenomenon and along with success comes the interest of re-purposing content. Twitter itself does not have a mechanism to license your tweets nor does it claim one. So tweetCC was created to fill that niche.

TweetCC is a simple way for you to declare how you want your tweets to be used and allow the world to easily look-up and respect your decisions. The project is one year old now and this is a quick look back at the reasons behind its creation and some current stats and developments.

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