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Don’t Close the Book on Libraries

May 16, 2010
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Image via Wikipedia This is my open letter to Mayor Bloomberg and Speaker Quinn in response to the $37 million in budgets cuts planned for the NYPL, reducing the days the Library is open from 6 to 4. – Dear Mayor Bloomberg and Speaker Quinn, Now is not the time to close the book on [...]

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What Adults Can Learn From Kids

April 3, 2010

Now here is a video that is incredibly impressive! Not only is this 10 yr old girl a child prodigy but an excellent public speaker with some interesting points of view. Don’t watch this or you just might learn something. “Learning between grownups and kids should be reciprocal“. Remember the days when kids should be seen [...]

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What I’m Reading This Sunday Morning:

February 28, 2010

The Millennials: Confident. Connected. Open to Change. Here is a topic I explore quite frequently here on my blog, the differences between Generations X, Y and the Millennial’s. Looks like the Pew Research Center is also doing an in depth study on the same subject. Very interesting read I hope you enjoy. The full article is [...]

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Shuttle Rollout

October 16, 2009

OK, so I have a little bit of Trekkie in me but I’ve always enjoyed the more boring aspects of the Space Shuttle, like how do they position the Shuttle onto the launchpad? The? 7 hour, 3.4-mile trip began at 6:38 a.m. and was completed at 1:31 p.m. That’s about 1/2 mile an hr. Hmmm… “Space shuttle Atlantis was moved [...]

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“Columbus” – Greatest Businessman Ever?

October 12, 2009

Happy Columbus Day everyone! I was just going over my History Channel subscription delivered to me via email and thought I’d share this short clip on Columbus day. Columbus could be considered one of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time (among other things). Very interesting piece! “From the YouTube History Channel: Christopher Columbus is known as many [...]

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“Age Of Stupid” – Film Opens Today

September 22, 2009

Just in time for President Obama’s big Speech at the U.N. today about Global Warming, the premiere of possibly the first movie to be distributed worldwide without the help or financing of any major movie studio and it happens to be on Global Warming. The Age of Stupid is not only a film about global warming but [...]

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I am an Immigrant in the Digital World

September 12, 2009

I was doing some research about “Digital Natives” for a freelance piece of work I am writing. I feel like a digital native but technically I am not so the research was an eye opener. A digital native is a person for whom digital technologies already existed when they were born, and hence has grown up [...]

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9/11 – National Geographic Video

September 12, 2009

There are a few conspiracy theories revolving around 9/11. One theory suggests rogue planes carrying explosives assumed the flight paths of the real ones. Could such a complex plan work? Video found on the National Geographic YouTube channel. A conspiracy that would involve a tremendous amount of people to pull off.  Not practical but an interesting video [...]

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