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Remember when there was no such thing as a blog?

September 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment · social

Remember say, 1996? When brave and crafty individuals cobbled (clobbered?) together pages with lots of blinky clip art?
And, remember 2004 when blogs were sprouting like mushrooms after a rainstorm? That was back before Twitter and Facebook took the wind out of blogging by making it easy to blurt whatever comes to mind.

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Open Source, Social Media, and Open Government

December 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · OpenSource, policy, social

Business Week attributes an increased interest in Open Source software to the shrinking economy.
ReadWriteWeb cites a report conducted by Accenture that millenials (i.e. those born between ‘77 and ‘97) will ignore IT departments that don’t support their IT preferences and applications. That is to say, many emerging social apps like Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and wikis, [...]

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