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Reading better, writing better, working better?

by Andy DeSoto on July 10, 2008

It’s finally time for me to bite the bullet and pull together an answer to Heidi Cool’s practical question: how has blogging impacted your work? When she tagged me in May, andydesoto.com was merely two months old, and, to be honest, I didn’t know what to say. Over the last few months, though, my familiarity with and respect for the medium has grown by leaps and bounds. Reading .eduGuru Kyle James’ own response to the meme was the push I needed to respond to this question myself. Here’s my answer.

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iPhone or no phone?

by Andy DeSoto on July 4, 2008

When the first-generation 2G iPhone was announced, I nabbed a 16GB iPod Touch. I’m not kidding when I say the gadget dramatically changed the way I went about everyday life on a college campus. Since Wi-Fi is basically ubiquitous on the William & Mary grounds, constant connectivity afforded by the Touch was able to untether me from desktops, libraries, and even my old and clunky IBM notebook.

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Other social networks to try besides Facebook

by Andy DeSoto on May 29, 2008

My blog feed passes by a captive audience of my Facebook friends every time I publish a new post.  To many of us, Facebook is the first social network we became involved in and it’s the one we stay most active in, too.  However, it doesn’t necessarily need to be this way; there are plenty [...]

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