By Pem McNerney on March 29, 2010
Image via CrunchBase Since its introduction earlier this year, Google Buzz has attracted quite a bit of attention, not all of it positive. A social media tool built on top of Gmail, it takes advantage of a user’s email network by integrating photos, videos, links, and other resources. But some of its features, and their […]
Posted in Social Media, Uncategorized | Tagged Gmail, Google Buzz, non-profits, user privacy
By Pem McNerney on March 27, 2010
Image via Wikipedia Software Programming Guru Joel Spolsky wrote his final “Joel on Software” blog post last week, leading some to wonder whether blogging was going the way of hot metal typesetting. Award-winning journalist and Salon.com co-founder Scott Rosenberg doesn’t think so: Blogging emerged and continues to thrive because it gives us something our old […]
Posted in Blogging, Writing | Tagged Blogging, Idea Lab, Joel Spolsky, pbs.org, Scott Rosenberg
By Pem McNerney on March 27, 2010
Image via CrunchBase Data visualization meets Drupal: Equally exciting, some extremely powerful data-visualization tools now are available for anyone to create visualizations within a semi-controlled space: Data360, and IBM’ s Many Eyes are two of the best. We at the Jefferson Institute just released betas for a set of highly abstracted Drupal data-visualization modules — […]
Posted in CMS, Drupal | Tagged data visualization, Data360, Drupal
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