Web/Tech

One of my new favorite sites is the hot word blog maintained by the folks at reference.com. Every day, they pick a word or phrase from the news and explain its origin, background and/or meaning.

Best idea I've heard lately:

The coming death of mail as we know it -- no, no, not that mail; the other one:

Signs you're an old fogey: You still watch movies on a VCR, listen to vinyl records and shoot photos on film.

And you enjoy using e-mail.

Chad Modesitt of Greenwood has a serious texting issue. Indianapolis police officer William Bueckers gave chase when he observed Modesitt's car speeding at double the limit:

As Bueckers approached Modesitt's car with his gun drawn, Modesitt began arguing with the officer, explaining that he was interrupting a cell phone discussion with his girlfriend, according to a police report.

Has the future of journalism arrived?

We've talked here before about how our notions of privacy are changing in the digital age. Here's a couple really pushing the limits on what's in the public square:

Cool:

Legislative leaders say all Indiana General Assembly committee meetings will be shown live online in the 2011 session for the first time.

In previous legislative sessions, House and Senate sessions and certain committee meetings were broadcast online. But House Speaker Brian Bosma says cameras and microphones have been installed in all Statehouse committee meeting rooms so that all meetings can be shown online.

How the phone book changed America:

They die so young these days:

First they take away my Zima, now this: Sony has pressed the eject button on the Walkman, discontinuing production of the AM/FM cassette player after 31 years.

It's bad enough that John Hughes is dead and “Goonies” alum Martha Plimpton is playing a grandmother on TV.

This seems a little, well, behind the times:

Students at Indiana University will build basement printing presses and print their own underground newspaper, learning from a legendary Polish journalist whose low-tech publishing innovations fueled the popular uprising that brought an end to Communist rule in Poland.

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