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Who killed Google Reader
If you became a heavy user of the Internet within the past decade, you may only know of Google Reader through those reminiscing about the tools of long ago and far away. Perhaps you have also heard the product mentioned … Continue reading
End of Edmodo
Edmodo was a popular site for K12 education that shut down about a year ago. At the time, I thought that the closing was a function of financial problems brought on by their free tier. This position was seemingly promoted … Continue reading
Struggles for rural students interested in coding
A recent The Hill article that despite colleges seeing a rise in computer science majors, students from rural high schools are being left out. Small differences in high-speed access in rural areas remain, but the main issue appears to be … Continue reading
Twitter’s direction?
People use microblogs (e.g., Twitter, Mastodon) for different reasons. I have mostly used such tools for discovery. I get the feeling many have moved from RSS readers to microblogs to keep up with innovations. I am also on the other … Continue reading
Companies warn employees about use of popular AI services
Apple, Amazon, and several other companies that make heavy use of tech have requested that their employees not use services such as ChatGPT and Bard. It is not that these companies are concerned about the use of AI in general, … Continue reading
Blogging with AI
One of the concerns I have read about large language models (AI such as ChatGPT) is that these services allow the creation of content so easily that the Internet will be flooded with material written for all purposes and of … Continue reading