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Tweeting Away Your Vacation

Even THEY get a vacation. A vacation – at least as defined by the American Heritage Dictionary – is “a period of time devoted to pleasure, rest, or relaxation, especially one with pay granted to an...

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Limits on Recording Everything: Is the Genie Already Out of the Bottle?

Ted Nelson, the inventor of hypertext, famously recorded numerous moments of his life on tape recordings, video, notepads, and the like.  Nelson, whose work in hypertext dates back to the early 1960s...

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Gone Fishin’– For Information

E-mail free: the Lake Neusiedl, Burgenland, Austria It’s August. The end of August. A Friday at the end of August, specifically. The number of e-mails has declined dramatically as the number of people...

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Are You Sleeping Well?

All that is missing is darkness... Look around your bedroom. Are there tiny beams of light, maybe blue ones and/or green ones? Or a red one? Is there a glow emanating from a digital clock or clock...

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All the News That’s Fit to View

So much news, so little time... The volume of news we create, and by news I mean news reporting, not newsworthy events, is mind-boggling. As someone who studies this as a form of Information Overload,...

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Why Can’t We Just All Get Along (Online) and Pay Attention?

Safety first! Padded pole by UK company 118 118. Sitting on the ANA Boeing Dreamliner inaugural flight from Seattle to Tokyo, Japan, I brought up some reading material on my iPad and first turned to...

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Knowledge Work Kills

Use it or lose it... I’ve often wondered about the impact of the change in how we work, from manual and active labor to knowledge work at our desks, with respect to our health. After all, while our...

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Driving Alone: How Technology is Reducing Distractions on the Road

Lane departure warning in Mercedes-Benz E350 Recently I have been giving some thought to practical uses of technology with respect to one of the most highly-publicized dangers, namely distracted...

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After Sandy: A Slow Return to Normalcy

Delta Terminal 3 at JFK early Thursday morning Airports Open, Some Power Restored, Subways and Buses Running For some, a sense of normalcy has begun to return to the Northeast. The cleanup continues,...

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The End of One Era… and Start of Another

Last one to leave, turn out the lights Since 1998, Basex:TechWatch has been a weekly communiqué from the desks of our analysts directly to you.  Without our loyal subscribers, it would have never had...

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