I Say: Blogs Have Been Cool For Many Years

From “Mustapha Hamoui’s Geek Blog::

Like email, the personal blog’s technology is not owned and controlled by a company. It’s a decentralized technology that goes whenever you go. If you choose to follow a blog, no company like facebook can decide whether or not you can read its posts. So don’t hesitate to blog away. If you think blogs are dying, ask yourself: Are emails going away anytime soon?

Right on. And don’t you call email “exciting”!

Click to image to read about “The Blog as Literary Genre”

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Face Unlock Put To Good Use In A Layer Of Convenience

Google reinvents the “face unlock” feature of Android, and seems to succeed in putting it to excellent use in a user-friendly solution: “Google made one of Android’s jokes into something clever“.

They took this technology (face recognition), and finally applied it in a useful way. It’s a subtle thing, but the difference between “staring at your phone to unlock it” and “reading a notification unlocks it” is a huge difference.

It’s this kind of progress that makes me want to use Lollipop ASAP!

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