Internet
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As a follow-up to my self examination in Being a Productive Animal, I’ve taken it upon myself to assemble a list of the activities I do in my free time separated by whether I consider them productive or unproductive. It may seem a simplistic bifurcation, but at the end of the day the productive activities are the ones…
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I Used DuckDuckGo for a Week and Had to Switch Back. Here’s why.
Bing, DuckDuckGo, Google, Internet, NSA, PRISM, Privacy, Product, Search, Search Engines, Startups, Technology
It was really hard to switch off of Google, and when I finally did it, I didn’t think I would switch back. In the past, whenever I’ve tried another search engine, I have failed. Searching is such a natural, compulsory thing to do on the internet, that whenever I have navigated to Bing or DuckDuckGo,…
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Ok, girls and boys, time for some venting about the state of the internet today. Let’s look at some problems that we all face on a regular basis–dare I say first world problems?–and maybe some ways they can be fixed. 1. Facebook Grammar This has been a problem from the beginning. Nothing gets my…
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I found this article the other day, and it isn’t that recent article by today’s terms (read: 6 months ago) but it is still relevant. First and foremost, I found it particularly interesting how Deresiewicz tied the history of friendship to our latest foray into “faux” friendship, seeming to trace a line directly from Plato…
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