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The Future of Education

By Parker Mason | Published: October 25, 2008
A few weeks ago there was an excellent article in the Globe and Mail called “The Class of 2012: Mr. Google’s Children” that followed a group of students in Toronto as they moved towards their high-school graduation last spring to where they are now (I’d link to it, but you know the way that newspaper [...]
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Getting Started Online Part Two: RSS

By Parker Mason | Published: October 20, 2008
(note: this is a belated followup to the post I wrote almost a month ago about Twitter) A few weeks ago, I told my roommate about the magic of RSS feeds. I also told him about how he could go about subscribing to these feeds using an RSS reader like Google Reader. Last week, I couldn’t help [...]
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Wikipedian Coincidences

By Parker Mason | Published: July 7, 2008
Over the weekend, Jens wrote a post about how certain topics (like fictional characters) in Wikipedia have unreasonably high word counts when compared to what should be more culturally important issues. For some bizarre reason, Seth Godin wrote about the same topic in the past few days. Today’s edition of XKCD was also quite similar. I’m thinking about [...]
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