How To Use The Internet To Buy A House
As recent first time homeowner, I never bought a house pre-Internet – and I wouldn’t want to. How to go online to make your home buying experience better.
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WhatDomain.org Explains Upcoming Changes to the Internet Landscape
Beginning October 2013, the World Wide Web is going to get even bigger. According to WhatDomain.org, over 1,400 top-level domains will be available. The new domains will be online and each be a part of a “neighborhood”.
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Random Hacks of Kindness
Thousands of hackers have recently been working together for a huge hacking session over 19 cities. Random Hacks of Kindness has chosen three as the most outstanding applications.
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Search: Online “Filter Bubbles”
As Internet companies attempt to personalize their services to each user, there is an unintended result: we view an edited down version of reality that colors the world that we see. Eli Pariser discusses this in his latest TED talk that you can watch here.
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Disconnect to Connect
Today I read a great blog post written by Richard Watson, the publisher of What’s Next (a website that documents global trends) and co-founder of Strategy Insight (a specialist scenario planning consultancy). The blog’s title, Why Doing Nothing is Often Better Than Doing Something, grabbed my attention. What Watson found was that he felt overwhelmed with too much information. He was drowning in the details of life and was missing the boat on being an innovative, creative deep-thinker.
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Advocating for Net Neutrality (Part 1 of 3)
I remember being in my Mass Communications and Society class giving a speech on net neutrality and trying to persuade my classmates to join the coalition for a free Internet. At that time it was something that I was passionate about, but as I looked at the blank stares across the rows of students, I came to realize that most didn’t even know what net neutrality was at that time.
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Link Wars
I think about the links in articles on the Web, especially when I’m blogging. I purposefully put links in my writing and put them in for a reason. When I’m reading content, I click on a headline to read an article, then I am sent to another source of information, and maybe even another story. I may never make it back to the original content that I intended to read.
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Taking the Google Brain Offline
When I don't know something, I Google it. I seek answers on the Internet at home, at work and in the grocery store. It's instant gratification to get the answer quickly and move on.