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TechTease Top 2K11 highlights in music, media, and technology

December 31, 2011
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TechTease Top 2K11 highlights in music, media, and technology

(◑﹏◑) If you’re not totally over all of the year-end retrospectives…a few more highlights from 2011. The #SATX hashtag For a moment we almost lost our hometown Twitter category to South Austin, Texas tweets. Thankfully, San Antonio microbloggers out-tweeted the Austin based accounts enough to keep the #SATX hashtag homesliced. When you get a...
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UPDATED #OccupySanAnto joins Occupy Wall Street movement (and RIP Steve Jobs)

October 5, 2011
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Should I be blogging about Steve Jobs? I didn’t know him. All kidding aside…he did get me to Think Different. Can we really deny how he contributed to the digital era? I’ve decided to pay homage to Jobs by outlining how Occupy San Antonio might use technology tomorrow, when they join the rest of...
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San Antonio, Texas Punk Rock Archive 1986-1989

September 24, 2011
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I was just a tween back in 1986. My favorite movie was Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, and for my brother it was Top Gun. Together we watched reruns of the Cosby Show and Growing Pains. Thanks to my parents we were exposed early on to everything from David Bowie to Kiss. My...
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Fair Trade Fund releases app that measures your ‘slavery footprint’

September 22, 2011
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As a San Antonian I'm not voting for Elizabeth Warren. But her thought-provoking speech, well, made me think.
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iPhone ‘Phone Story’ game banned from the App Store

September 14, 2011
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Sadly, nowadays I make many assumption about my tech gadgets. I presuppose that most of what I buy comes from China, or somewhere else where cheap labor is exploited. From the Phone Story website: Phone Story is a game for smartphone devices that attempts to provoke a critical reflection on its own technological platform....
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Which social media tools work best for you?

March 11, 2011
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Which social media tools work best for you?

“From Facebook to YouTube to Digg and beyond, which media outlets will net the most bang for the buck in terms of customer communication, brand exposure, traffic, and SEO? ” – via cmo.com READ MORE HERE.
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How-to overshare on Facebook: A mother’s painful status update story

January 3, 2011
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How-to overshare on Facebook: A mother’s painful status update story

Michelle Jimenez-Reyes, a single mother of two, is someone we can all learn from. She’s part of the local community in a variety of ways. By day she’s an award-winning massage therapist, and by night a skillful mixoligist serving crowds at the Mix Night Club. You can also find Michelle working on public school education...
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Incredible Tech: VozMob’s Internet-less Community’s Internet Presence

November 23, 2010
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Incredible Tech: VozMob’s Internet-less Community’s Internet Presence

With economic doom and gloom around every corner, discussion of media (both access and literacy), tends to fall flat in the face of the ever-present knowledge: resources just aren’t there.
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Skip the Mall Nerdz

November 22, 2010
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This is the first year I’ve put together a gift guide for the masses. With so much crap on the net to buy, the possibilities seem endless. What was the methodology behind choosing these items? My friends, family, and co-workers And, after going to one bat-shit crazy shopping event last weekend in real-time, I...
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