According to this announcement, a Linux client for Dropbox should be coming out in a week or so:
http://forums.getdropbox.com/topic.php?id=2371&replies=1
I’ve been using Dropbox for several months, and it’s really, really great.
What is it? Watch this video:
http://www.getdropbox.com/screencast
It’s backup and auto-syncing done REALLY well. Best of all, you can sync between more than one computer, even if one is [...]
Posted on September 1st, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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From Tom Stites’s “Guest Posting: Is Media Performance Democracy’s Critical Issue?” (Center for Citizen Media: Blog: 3 July 2006):
In late 1980s the late Neil Postman wrote an enduringly important book called Amusing Ourselves to Death. In it he says that Marshall McLuhan only came close to getting it right in his famous adage, that the [...]
Posted on July 30th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Adam Goodheart’s “10 Days That Changed History” (The New York Times: 2 July 2006):
APRIL 16, 1902: The Movies
Motion pictures seemed destined to become a passing fad. Only a few years after Edison’s first crude newsreels were screened  mostly in penny arcades, alongside carnival games and other cheap attractions, the novelty had worn off, [...]
Posted on July 30th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Reuters’s “YouTube serves up 100 mln videos a day” (16 July 2006):
YouTube, the leader in Internet video search, said on Sunday viewers have are now watching more than 100 million videos per day on its site, marking the surge in demand for its “snack-sized” video fare.
Since springing from out of nowhere late last year, [...]
Posted on July 18th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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