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Mobile Storytelling: An Evolving Story

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Curtis Wong of Microsoft Research has a wonderful presentation of Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope project where the tool for presenting the universe around us sets a stage for storytelling by allowing researchers and students alike to create a narrative through the interface.

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Martin Luther King Day - Let Freedom Ring

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It was in a small town in northeastern Ohio, six months after my ex-wife and I adopted our son, Jonathan. Three and a half years before we adopted Jonathan, Cathy and I had sat together, tears streaming down our faces, when we heard the news that Martin Luther King had been shot in Memphis. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I had a chance to meet with staffers involved in the drafting of two key federal bills that are most likely to be adopted, and shared my issues. She is a University of Minnesota law school professor who was born in Africa and is a terrific advocate for the Treaty and its empowerment of the blind community.

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