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First day of German

I don’t spreche Deutsch.  Not even a little.  That’s what I found out today in my first German class.  We spent 3 hours going over even the easiest of German phrases, My name is…, I come from… in…, I speak…, My hobbies are…  Even after all that, I couldn’t remember one thing when my host [...]

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Getting Settled

I just landed here in Stuttgart, and man, are things different.  The guy at the passport-check kept asking me if I was in the Army.  He did let me through, though.  I have stamp #1 on my passport.  Sweet.  All of my bags made it.  I didn’t think they would.  My host-sister, Ally, and her [...]

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Heading off…

So here I am…sitting at Omaha Eppley Airfield.  I’m heading off to Germany in about 2 hours.  It will be a long day of travel, I think I’ll be in Airports and airplanes for about 16 to 17 hours.  If only all had free WiFi.  It was tough to leave Ms. Emily Conway at the [...]

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Twevolution at SDSU

I’ve posted to a limited degree in the past about Twitter, the microblog utility that has become the #3 social media website in the world. It’s pretty cool, but it’s just starting to hit the mainstream.
Here’s my 30-second salesman pitch:  with Twitter, you can communicate with others dynamically using the tools of the web, [...]

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Facebook updates, then un-updates, its Terms of Service

Early this month, Facebook changed its Terms of Service. This change in their terms was subtle, but crazy, at it would seemingly give FB license to use your uploaded content FOREVER. Even if you deleted your account. That seems like it would be a pretty decent invasion on users’ expectations of privacy. [...]

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SDSU Collegian on Twitter

To everyone who’s into this whole Web 2.0 revolution, (That would be you, Mr./Mrs. Person Readingmyblog) the SDSU Collegian has recently started a Twitter account.
Twitter is a “micro-blogging” platform where its users post blurbs of 140 characters or less. The users will post everything from what they ate for dinner that evening, to links [...]

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Blogging @ SDSU?

How many student organizations at SDSU have their own blog? I don’t know of any. ZERO. That is extremely depressing. I am probably in the 90th percentile of tech savvyness at SDSU, and I don’t know of a single student group that has their own blog. Blogs are the basics, [...]

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Speaking of Alltel…

Last week I saw a new Alltel Commercial…where’s Verizon?
I’m sure most of you are familiar with Chad, our buddy from the Alltel commercials preaching the benefits of “My Circle.” These ads showed the ever-so-cool Chad easily one-upping the wannabes from AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile. For the longest time, there was a nice little Verizon representative, [...]

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iPhone Coming Soon to SD?

As part of Verizon’s scheduled acquisition of Alltel, VZW agreed to sell some of its assets. A recent story in the Wall Street Journal (It’s subscriber only, so I’ll do my best to analyze) named AT&T as a company interested in purchasing the service areas that Verizon is giving up. It also [...]

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Coming soon to Blogger…

Hey! So…my Digital Media Production class is requiring everyone maintain an almost daily blog! Whew…this will FORCE me to blog regularly, driving me into the habit of content creation. Well…not so fast. While requiring blogging, they are also requiring a Blogger account. Bummer. I will do my best to [...]

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