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Old Man Google

Posted by: | September 5, 2011 | No Comment |

Google. The name stands alone as one of the most revolutionary innovations in recorded history, fifteen years after its inception in 1996 as the “web crawler” BackRub, “designed to traverse the web.” Where its predecessors Yahoo and AOL, with their once-widely popular search engines, have failed to corner the search market, Google founders Larry Page […]

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Technology: helping the spread of news (part 4)

Posted by: | November 19, 2009 | No Comment |

In our previous three blog entries, we discussed how technological advancements like the printing press, steam engine, telegraph, radio, and television (see beow) have helped spread information and the news to the public-at-large.   In our final entry, we will continue the discussion on how technology has helped shape the spread of information and the news. Source: http://www.wired.com Like the television set, the Internet (see picture below) was another revolutionary advancement in technology, in terms […]

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Technology: helping the spread of news (part 3)

Posted by: | November 5, 2009 | No Comment |

In our previous two blog entries, we discussed how technological advancements like the printing press, steam engine, telegraph, and radio (see below) have helped spread information and the news to the public-at-large.   In this entry, we will continue the discussion on how technology has helped shape the spread of information and the news. Source: Wikipedia While, the telegraph and radio were helpful in spreading information and news to the public-at-large,  the television […]

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Technology: helping the spread of news (part 2)

Posted by: | October 22, 2009 | No Comment |

In our last blog entry, we discussed how technological advancements like the printing press and steam engine (see below) have helped spread information and the news to the public-at-large.   In this entry, we will continue to discuss how technology has helped shape the spread of information and the news. Source: http://www.westsussex.gov.uk/apps/eLearning/medium_image.jsp?imageid=1311 Like the printing press and the steam […]

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