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Entries for March, 2008

My Bio

I am working on writing up a bio for a new project I am getting ready to join (more info to come soon). David is weirded out writing in the third person… Friends, what do you think I am missing here?
David is a native Texan, most recently of Austin, where he attends the University of [...]

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Why Are Students Not On Twitter?

Since I’ve been on Twitter, I’ve noticed that one important group of people is very underrepresented in the community - students.
Why are they not on Twitter? To me, it seems that Twitter would be the perfect medium for students to communicate with one another - SMS brought to the next level. Is it too early [...]

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How Do You Facebook?

I started writing this post with an introduction something like this:
Is it just Pirates and Ninjas for you, or do you use it as a communications medium/platform, like email? (Just more informal and personable?)
But then I started thinking, the beauty of social networking, as mediated through the internet, is that it reflects our social networking [...]

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Traveling Out of One Backpack

There is some great discussion on Zen Habits (and Lifehacker ) about how to travel lightly, as Leo is preparing to travel overseas. His goal is to travel to Thailand with everything he needs in one backpack. That sounds like something fun that I would like to do at some point in the future, but [...]

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Mobile Tip: Be a T9 Ninja

For those of us without phones with qwerty keyboards typing is sloooow, but if you use predictive text entry, like T9, you can use it to your advantage in wild and crazy new ways. When you are surfing the web on a T9-enabled device, you have to login to a lot of websites, why not [...]

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