Apple endangers shameless mobile advertisements
In life, few things are as passively satisfying as “blocking” out the little annoyances. Telemarketers calling during dinner? We gripe for a second then simply say, “Please put me on [...]
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Posted October 21, 2015in Tech Talk
Posted October 14, 2015in Tech Talk
Peeple are inherently good
Connoisseurs of late 1990s television might remember a certain VH1 roundtable discussion show, “The List,” which basically laid the blueprint for modern Internet content. The concept of the show was [...]
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Posted October 07, 2015in Featured Story, Tech Talk
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There’s something exclusive about being part of a group. Feeling part of a movement or private society is why people join churches or gyms, go to specific schools, buy specific [...]
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Posted September 30, 2015in Tech Talk
Facebook finally lets us say ‘No’
If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. Children across the country are told this every day when they say something hurtful. The problem is [...]
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Posted September 23, 2015in Featured Story, Tech Talk
Apple, a national treasure
Dear President Obama: With the Iowa Caucus nearing and political drama starting to consume the news cycle, I’m sure you’ve heard the rumblings for a federal holiday on Election Day. [...]
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Posted September 16, 2015in Tech Talk
Closing in on a cure for compression
Virtually every medium of media has its zealots. The most well known group is audiophiles — music or sound lovers pursuing the cleanest audio sound possible. These fanatics will espouse [...]
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Posted September 09, 2015in Tech Talk
Livestream button-mashing now on YouTube
The National Football League — America’s most popular sport — loves to tout its $10 billion revenue value. Between dominant television ratings and local teams stoking the flames of fandom, [...]
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Posted September 02, 2015in Tech Talk
5 steps to become a web billionaire
To the uninspired and greed-fueled, the modern web must be secretly infuriating. Parroting a phrase I heard time and time again in the photography showcase at the Iowa State Fair, [...]
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Posted August 26, 2015in Tech Talk
We’re all Internet victims sitting in wait
The Internet can be the ugliest place in the world. Anonymous online posting is the No. 1 plague of the 21st century. The list of horrible things people can do [...]
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Posted August 19, 2015in Tech Talk
Goodbye, Google; we hardly knew you
There are big companies like Ford or 3M, and then there are massive companies like General Electric or ExxonMobil. Now, Ford generates more revenue than General Electric, but G.E. is [...]
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