Day: October 21, 2006
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Beyond the digital native / immigrant dichotomy
Great comments and links from Quentin D’Souza and Christopher Harris on my post “Digital refugees and digital bridges” yesterday. Quentin’s diffusion model of technology use IS helpful (categorizing users as innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards) but I think his framework still suffers from the oversimplification problems of a simple dichotomy between…
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IE7 for Windows and Vista / Open Source reflections
After sharing six beta versions over a period of 14 months, Microsoft has formally released Internet Explorer 7 in advance of its major operating system revision, Vista. My personal browser of choice on the Windows side of things will remain Firefox, largely because IE in all previous variants has been the most security-vulnerable web browser…