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Developing Apps for Apple’s Mobile Devices While Android mobile devices like my Droid X are certainly gaining in popularity, Apple product...

My Top Social Media Books In general I’m unhappy with the focus and range of books on social media. Still, some interesting works are wort...

Comcast and General Electric Complete NBC Universal Deal Comcast has now completed it’s acquisition of NBC Universal. Marguerite Reardon r...

Two Great Debates on Net Neutrality: Cerf-Farber and Lessig-Gilder With the FCC releasing its latest rulings on Net Neutrality just before...

Digital Destruction I was talking with a woman the other day whose husband is losing her job because “films don’t use film anymore”. Yes, ...

Why I’m a Tsaiko: Sports and Social Media I don’t have a lot of time for sports these days but I do stay true to my alma mater, the Univer...

How IT Came to Rule the World, 2.8: Apple, Silicon Valley and the Counter-Cultural Impulse While Woz earned his title as the “Mozart of di...

The Smith Effect I: Markets, Governments, and IT The “Smith Effect” resulted in new ways to analyze the social field and the overlap betwee...

Flash: Multimedia Embraces HTML 5 Steve Jobs in an open letter last April criticized the legacy media platform for being power hungry, non...

The Meaning-Makers: WPP This is my second post for The Meaning-Makers series. The first discussed advertising behemoth, Omnicom, one of the...

http://apennings.com/multimedia/developing-apps-for-apples-iphone-and-ipad/ The iOS is notable for its user interface. Apple made history ...

http://apennings.com/social_media/social-media-some-thoughts-on-curriculum/ Social media has been part of our curriculum for the last seve...