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What Thomas Edison Can Teach You about Blogging  Thomas Edison was one of the most prolific and influential inventors that the world has seen. Inventing world changing technologies such as the light bulb, phonograph and the motion picture camera - Edison is someone whose views on emerging technologies can inform what we do in blogging today.
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| Aug. 8, 1876: Edison Patents Mimeograph 1876: Thomas Edison receives a patent for the mimeograph. It will dominate the world of small-press-run publication for a century.
Before the inkjet printer, before the laser printer, before the dot-matrix printer, before the photocopier, there came the mimeograph machine. They were everywhere — in schools, offices and the military. If you needed just a few [...] [..] |
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| Aug. 15, 1877: ‘Hello. Can You Hear Me Now?’ 1877: Thomas Edison suggests using the word hello as a telephone greeting. The idea catches on.
Edison invented a lot of things, for sure, but one thing he didn’t invent was the telephone. The brass ring for that one goes to Alexander Graham Bell, although Elisha Gray filed his patent for a similar device the same [...] [..] |
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| Aug. 14, 1888: I Sing the Meter Electric 1888: Oliver B. Shallenberger receives a patent for the electric meter. There’s no free lunch. You’ll get an electric bill.
When Thomas Edison started selling electricity for illumination in 1882, he charged per lamp. He soon replaced that with a complicated chemical ampere-hour meter.
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| Aug. 14, 1888: I Sing the Meter Electric 1888: Oliver B. Shallenberger receives a patent for the electric meter. There’s no free lunch. You’ll get an electric bill.
When Thomas Edison started selling electricity for illumination in 1882, he charged per lamp. He soon replaced that with a complicated chemical ampere-hour meter.
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| NPR Digital Chief Joins Etsy Via PaidContent: NPR digital chief Maria Thomas is joining the crafty ecommerce site Etsy as COO. Thomas had been at NPR for six years, and pushed the public broadcaster's podcasting and digital music efforts. Her move comes weeks after the departure of CEO Ken Stern, who had championed NPR's digital investments, which put him at odds with some station managers. Thomas said her departure is unr [..] |
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| Microsoft Want To Use Games To Teach [Microsoft] Microsoft is co-funding a research institute aimed at finding ways to use videogames to teach maths, science and engineering to children. The Games For Learning Institute (G4LI) at New York University in [..] |
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Japanese classrooms using Nintendo DS to teach English  Filed under: Nintendo DSWe've had many Game Boy Pockets, GBA SPs and other portable devices snatched up by certain agitated educators during our formative years, which is why the recent news of a new program to teach English to Japanese student [..] |
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First Music Download Trial May Go Back To Court  Jammie Thomas, the woman who was ordered to pay six times her yearly salary for sharing music may get another chance to defend herself.
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Another Brash co-founder, Thomas Tull, bolts  Filed under: BusinessShockingly, the Brash formula of churning out abysmal movie-based games with little (read: no) redeeming qualities apparently hasn't panned out so well. Now, another of the company's co-founders, Legendary Pictures' Thomas Tull, has follow [..] |
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Edison's beatbox  I found this really interesting hacked synth made by “sonofcastille” on YouTube. Unfortunately I don’t know much more about it, or the maker. If anyone has more information, post it in the comments and I will update the entry.
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| Set-top box modders sent to prison Teach telly hackery, go directly to jail
Two men have been sentenced for a total of 15 months for advising people how to bypass security settings on their set-top boxes.
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| What Can Games Teach Us About The Election? [Feature] With just 42 days left until the United States chooses its 44th President, it is vital that the electorate is well versed in the key issues affecting the country. Although many cultural commentators bemoan the lack [..] |
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| Web 2.0 presentation Clif Mims and I gave a talk and led a discussion (two hours worth) for a group of interested faculty at our university (U. of Memphis) about Web 2.0 in teaching and learning. I enjoyed this and, learned quite a bit. Note to self: the best way to learn something is to teach about it.
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