Author Archives: laura

Malicious Junk Mail

Posted on June 2, 2011 by laura

A few days ago, a colleague I hadn’t corresponded with in a while told me he almost missed my email because it wound up in the spam folder, and he hesitated before deleting it because my full name wasn’t displayed … Continue reading →

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Amazon Gets Spammy With Kindle Advertising

Posted on May 21, 2011 by laura

My first (and possibly last) story created with Storify. Storify is a nice tool when you’d like to quickly create a story from media pulled in from around the web, so it’s a shame you can’t embed the stories you … Continue reading →

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William Faulkner’s Complete Works Now Available As EBooks

Posted on May 19, 2011 by laura

Yesterday I noticed via an update from William Faulkner’s author page on Facebook that Random House has finally released all of his published works in eBook format.

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Bulimia

Posted on May 7, 2011 by laura

I snapped this picture while I was walking around town at lunchtime this week.  As cats will, this one seems to own the entrance to the Théâtre Boulimie in Lausanne. Boulimie has the same meaning as bulimia in English. Although … Continue reading →

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Detailed analysis of iPhone location data

Posted on May 2, 2011 by laura

After reading Pete Warden’s iPhone Tracker FAQ and the article by Alex Levinson, I wanted to extract the precise location information from the consolidated.db file from my iPhone backups to see exactly how accurate the location data were, as well … Continue reading →

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iPhone Tracker tests

Posted on April 21, 2011 by laura

I was alerted to today’s big news about the iPhone when richf posted about it on webdoc.com. His post lead me to the article on ReadWriteWeb that describes how iPhone software is automatically keeping a log of the phone’s location … Continue reading →

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What is wrong with people?

Posted on April 14, 2011 by laura

Today via a link to an interesting article in The Guardian posted on LinkedIn by Luca Toledo, I  found an amazing video from a camera sent into space by a 7 year old boy and his father.

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Social Media Is Dead, Long Live Social Media!

Posted on April 10, 2011 by laura

Last week I read an article on Memeburn that really bothered me, The demise of social media and the return of mass media. I don’t want to pick on anyone, but I’ve seen too many similar articles in the last … Continue reading →

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Evolution and ‘Pollution’ of Twitter hashtags

Posted on January 13, 2011 by laura

@RobinSloan posted an article on Twitter Media last week that piqued my curiosity, The Art of the Hashtag. In it, he described how media outlets such as MTV are carefully crafting Twitter hashtags and promoting them on TV to encourage … Continue reading →

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Not even eBooks can invade Switzerland

Posted on December 8, 2010 by laura

Earlier this week, I stopped by the FNAC on my way home from work to see if there were any eBook readers on sale. I didn’t have much time to browse, but I didn’t find anything on display in any … Continue reading →

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