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Dead Media Watch #297 – Hyphens

Posted on September 29, 2009 by Thomas Purves

About 16,000 words have succumbed to pressures of the Internet age and lost their hyphens in a new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. No one has time for the poor hyphen anymore. It seems to be going the … Continue reading →

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Live notes from DemoCamp22 with Yossi Vardi

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Thomas Purves

The Jewish mother is the secret weapon of the Isreal tech success. It’s a state of mind. All of your life you aspire to prove to your mother that you are not an idiot. (This is a lost cause). But … Continue reading →

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Some neat events coming up at Rotman this fall

Posted on September 22, 2009 by Thomas Purves

My alma mater, the Rotman School at UofT has a great track record of bringing in some great speakers to Toronto and as well there’s a lot of excellent research that comes out of the school itself. I would say … Continue reading →

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