Sat.May 14, 2011 - Fri.May 20, 2011

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Happy Birthday, Blog!

Ari Herzog

Photo by dantada. May 14 marked the fourth birthday of my creating this blog. It’s seen many web locations, names, and iterations. The archive elaborates how I began writing about everything under the sun, then wrote about environmental issues, then segued into social media tips, and recently focused my writing about broader topics of emerging media.

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R.I.P. Friendster

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This month marks the final chance for you to view my Friendster profile before it will be deleted when the site closes. TechCrunch shares a guide on how you can save your Friendster data (photos, blog posts, etc.) if you choose. I’ll let it self-erase as there’s nothing there I haven’t deleted over the years. The site will go down in smoke and enter my consciousness as yet another social networking site that I was once a participant, along with SixDegrees.com , GeoCities , asso

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The Importance of Blueberries

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Ingenious video with two kids making fruit salad: Can’t see it? Watch here. You’re guaranteed to laugh. It was uploaded to YouTube in May 2009 and since witnessed over 5 million views. Talk about a virus. Also talk about a website about the video explaining why the parents decided to establish a trust fund for their college education — sparking people to donate.

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How Video Can Replace Student Textbooks

Ari Herzog

Photo credit: dave. This Feature Friday article is written by Charles Sipe. The recent documentary Waiting for Superman paints a bleak picture of the US education system that is falling behind other developed countries and failing to provide the high skilled workers that are needed to drive innovation and compete with the rest of the world. According to the film, by 2020, 123 million US jobs will be high skill, high pay, but only 50 million Americans will be qualified to fill them.

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