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The Semantic Web

By Adam Feldman Saturday, November 15, 2008 0:58 No Comments

This post is part of a series I am writing for a class on New Media. Some technical explanations may seem unneeded or lengthy, but I am writing for the benefit of a very intelligent but less technical audience.

“The Semantic Web is a web that is able to describe things in a way that computers [...]

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An Extremely Short History of Personal Computers & the Significance of Open-source Software

By Adam Feldman Wednesday, November 5, 2008 17:21 No Comments

This post is part of a series I am writing for a class on New Media. Some technical explanations may seem unneeded or lengthy, but I am writing for the benefit of a very intelligent but less technical audience.

Anyone else see any humor in my having an obnoxiously long title for this post?
Personal computers only [...]

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Ready for Primetime

By Adam Feldman Thursday, October 30, 2008 22:25 No Comments

This post is part of a series I am writing for a class on New Media. Some technical explanations may seem unneeded or lengthy, but I am writing for the benefit of a very intelligent but less technical audience.

The Philosophy
Something I think is a really cool offshoot of the kind of thinking that characterized the [...]

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