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Book Nook
 Amy Phelps |
Not Techno SavvyThu, January 28, 2010 @ 11:50AM With the iPad coming out, I seem to keep having discussions with fellow blogger Art Smith about why I don't have some sort of ebook reader and why I'm hanging onto "dead trees." For one thing, books smell good. I can't explain it properly, but they do. But my major hang-up with those devices is that I spend too much of my life as it is on the computer due to work. I cannot spend anymore of it reading for hours on end on yet another computer screen. Art tells me these devices do something to try to simulate a paper page. And yet it's still a simulation. It's not a paper page. While I've not read a book on one of the ereaders, I have had to read pdfs of books before. And it's a chore. I would much rather read an actual book. I also cannot imagine cuddling up on the couch with my kids and reading one of their favorite picture books - on a computer screen.
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It's your internet
 Art Smith |
Broadband adds optionsFri, March 12, 2010 @ 2:42PM Broadband adds options Broadband is changing the way we live our lives. If you have been on the Internet for past decade or so you have noticed it has changed a bit. The universal force driving change on the Internet is the speed in which you can view pages as well as send and receive files. In the early days of the Web most people accessed the web by using modems to use their phone line to connect to providers such as CompuServe and AOL. You could talk on the phone or you could be online, you couldn’t be on both. Attaching computers to a system designed for short verbal conversations put a great strain on the nation phone system because people tended to stay online for longer periods than they talked on their phones. Phone systems were upgraded but the need proved to be short term. The need for speed grew quickly and computer users migrated toward faster options. Today only about four percent of people access the Internet via their phone lines.
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Editor's Log
 Jim Smith |
Cloudy skies in WashingtonMon, March 15, 2010 @ 1:24PM Not the best news to hear during Sunshine Week, but better than I expected. Big surprise, federal agencies reportedly are not following the president's direction for a "new era of open government," according to a study dealing with how government follows the federal Freedom of Information act. The National Security Archive, a private group, on Sunday (the first day of Sunshine Week, an annual obervance by journalists) published a report that indicated: —Thirty-three of the 90 agencies now have an older unfulfilled request than they did on Sept. 30, 2008. —Five agencies reported releasing less and withholding more information during the 2009 budget year, which includes the first nine months of the Obama administration, than they did the previous year. —35 of the 90 agencies told the auditors they had no records of putting in place the new FOIA policies enacted by President Obama.
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