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Submission + - Microsoft Is Buying Their Way Into Spanish Schools (opensourcereleasefeed.com)

Submitted by

volume4

on Monday June 08, 2009 @10:55AM

volume4 writes: "HispaLinux is up in arms about the Spanish Goverment's announcement that Microsoft will be powering computers in their education system instead of Open Source and Linux after a, seemingly successful, paid for experiment run in schools in Aragon. Paul Brown, editor-in-chief, speaks his mind about the situation and why he believes there is more to the deal then meets the eye."

Submission + - Blog is Dead

Submitted by

The Narrative Fallacy

on Monday June 08, 2009 @10:50AM

The Narrative Fallacy writes: "Douglas Quenqua reports in the NY Times that according to a 2008 survey only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs the company tracks had been updated in the past 120 days meaning that "95 percent of blogs being essentially abandoned, left to lie fallow on the Web, where they become public remnants of a dream — or at least an ambition — unfulfilled." Richard Jalichandra, chief executive of Technorati, said that at any given time there are 7 million to 10 million active blogs on the Internet, but it's probably between 50,000 and 100,000 blogs that are generating most of the page views. "There's a joke within the blogging community that most blogs have an audience of one." Many people who think blogging is a fast path to financial independence also find themselves discouraged. "I did some Craigslist postings to advertise it, and I very quickly got an audience of about 50,000 viewers a month," says Matt Goodman, an advertising executive in Atlanta who had no trouble attracting an audience to his site, Things My Dog Ate, leading to some small advertising deals. "I think I made about $20 from readers clicking on the ads.""

Submission + - Training Geeks to be 'normal' at Geek Heaven (latimes.com) 2

Submitted by

Critical Facilities

on Friday May 15, 2009 @10:37AM

Critical Facilities writes: "Apparently, Neumont University, also referred to as "Geek Heaven" has implemented several programs which attempt to socialize/normalize their admittedly eccentric student body. According to the article, "The 6-year-old school places its graduates in high-tech jobs at such companies as EBay Inc., Microsoft Corp. and IBM Corp. If trends hold up, more than 90% of the 59 students graduating with bachelor's degrees today will find work within three months...Administrators forced them to close their laptops in class, established social clubs and required them to take courses in interpersonal communications and public speaking."

As would be expected, there is a major shortage of women attending this particular university. In typical geek fashion, those women who do attend the school don't appear to be particularly appreciated by their male colleagues as evidenced by a quote from student Cameron Murray who is quoted as saying, "the women at Neumont "are more like dudes with long hair," which hurts the dating scene.""

Submission + - Apple TextEdit to support ODF (apple.com)

Submitted by ablaze on Wednesday October 17, 2007 @02:30AM

ablaze writes: According to the 300+ features page at apple.com, Apple's TextEdit is going to support the OpenDocument Format. That's great news, as they used to support MS Office formats only.

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