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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.
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Technolotics #14 – Blame it on Francis
[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/14_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 14 Feed: RSS Notes Flock Released Folksonomy browser released Very early version Includes blogging features, del.icio.us integration instead of bookmarks, and a feedreader Why Google are really scanning the whole worlds library Whats the point – the books can’t be read online, and google don’t have an online store Searching within books seems a… Read more
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Technolotics #13 – Kiddy Fiddling Slander Monkeys
[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 13 Feed: RSS Notes Contributer Reminder Anyone is welcome to contribute stories – either through our email or wiki However we will never run with anonymously contributed stories Please include your real name and email Also we will only discuss stories that are a) newsworthy b) relate meaningfully to wider issues in… Read more
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Technolotics #12 – iSuckPod
[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/12_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 12 Feed: RSS Notes Why you shouldn’t buy another ipod The long awaited ipod video has been released, along with the new iMac G5, and iTunes 6 containing the long awaited iTunes video store Videos are restricted to music and 5 ABC tv series for now, and are two dollars each This is not… Read more
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Technolotics #11 – How to Pick up Chicks
[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/11_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 11 Feed: RSS Notes Folksonomy rankings, the future of search? Ok what is a folksonomy [1] A new search engine for social bookmarking, entitled collaborative rank [2], has launched. Site is a research project by a student of the University of New South Wales [3] in Australia It enables search of taggers posts to… Read more
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Technolotics #10 – So good they made it thrice!
This weeks episode totaled out at over 90 minutes! But we enjoyed it so much, we wanted to let you listen to the lot. It’s now available as three separate parts [audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/10_technolotics_1of3.mp3] [audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/10_technolotics_2of3.mp3] [audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/10_technolotics_3of3.mp3] Listen: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 Feed: RSS Notes 90% True For decades polygraphs have come under such criticism for their unreliability,… Read more
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Technolotics #9 – Buy it, Burn it, Return it
[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/09_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 9 Feed: RSS Buy it, burn it, return it Scotti’s Record Shops chain in northern New Jersey, US, actively encourages ‘piracy’ [1]. Are CD rentals the way forward? How long can a forward thinking approach like this survive? Customers can return a new or used CD in 10 days for 70% of purchase price… Read more
