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Reading Program Is Called Ineffective
via NYT > NYTimes.com Home by (author unknown) on May 01, 2008
President Bush’s $1 billion a year initiative to teach reading to low-income children has not helped improve their reading comprehension, according to a Department of Education report released on Thursday.
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Digsby First to Support Facebook Chat
via Mashable! by Kristen Nicole on May 01, 2008
New(ish) chat tool Digsby is probably amongst the most curious of the recent entrants to the market, because of its all inclusive approach to communication–not just chat. It supports all the major chat services, and also pulls in your email messages and status updates across various services as well. To stay in line with its cool take on desktop communication, Digsby has just announced...
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Launch of the Open Access Directory
via Open Access News by Peter Suber on April 30, 2008
I'm very happy to introduce you to the Open Access Directory. First an excerpt from today's announcement:Peter Suber and Robin Peek have launched the Open Access Directory (OAD), a wiki where the open access community can create and maintain simple factual lists about open access to science and scholarship. Suber, a Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College, and Peek, an...
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Send Emails — The Old School Way
via geeksugar -- Geek is chic. by geeksugar on April 13, 2008
For someone like my dad, who still calls his email his www, nothing beats a good ol' back to basics pencil and paper email. Thanks to ThinkGeek and their paper email pads, my dad can send fifty handwritten emails for only $4. No navigation to your email client, no mind-boggling passwords to fill in, just simple To:, Date:, Time: and Subject: fields to fill in. Done and done! Now for the hard...
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Yankees unearth Red Sox jersey in new stadium
via ESPN.com by ESPN.com news services on April 13, 2008
A construction worker and Boston fan working on the concrete crew at the $1.3 billion new Yankee Stadium buried a Red Sox shirt in with the concrete foundation in the hopes of jinxing the Yankees' new home, the New York Post reported.
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Scrabble Tries to Fight a Popular Impostor at Its Own Game
via NYT > Technology by (author unknown) on April 06, 2008
RealNetworks is quietly introducing a version of Scrabble on Facebook, despite pledging to save Scrabulous, the popular, unauthorized online version of the board game.
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Amazon Accelerates Its Move to Digital
via NYT > Technology by (author unknown) on April 07, 2008
With the No. 1 source of music sales now an online downloading service, Amazon.com looks at the development of its digital offerings with a sense of urgency.
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Amazon rings up shopping via text-message
via Webware.com by Dawn Kawamoto on April 02, 2008
Amazon.com unveiled on Wednesday a text-messaging shopping service, which adds a mainstream player to the mix of companies that offer shopping to-go.Amazon TextBuyIt is designed to let mobile device users window-shop, compare prices, and purchase products from Amazon.Shoppers send a text message to "Amazon" with the product name, search term, UPC, or ISBN code. The e-commerce giant will offer...
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NEH’s Office of Digital Humanities
via Dan Cohen's Digital Humanities Blog by Dan Cohen on March 25, 2008
What began as a plucky “initiative” has now become a permanent “office.” The National Endowment for the Humanities will announce in a few hours that their Digital Humanities Initiative has now been given a full home, in recognition of how important digital technology and media are for the future of the humanities. The DHI has become the Office of Digital Humanities, with a new website and...
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