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...This business would be nowhere if it were not for Skype,” Gerrard says of the frequent late night conference calls that the group had over the summer. Because all three had internships, daytime communication was covert...
...might not produce a groundswell to demand a halt to global warming or killing in Darfur, a virtual community unmoored from geography can deliver a critical mass. And once converted, advocates are far better informed than a generation ago. They can hear the personal tales of aid workers over Skype. When the Western press steers clear, they can access and share local media reports. Thanks to what Chris Anderson called the "long tail," far more documentaries are available than when movie theaters and video stores catered only to the most popular side of the market. Netflix carries close...
...making the Middle Ages modern. Michael McCormick, professor of History 1101: “Medieval Europe,” is known for his talent of engaging students with largely unpublished information about Medieval Europe. But McCormick has found yet another way to make his class stand out: by offering Skype office hours every Monday from 10-11 p.m. Skype, a software program that enables users to make phone calls over the Internet and communicate via instant messaging, is a popular program that many college students use to talk cheaply with friends overseas. While some History 1101 students were apprehensive about...
This predicament was the result of an ill-fated lapse of attention in a Marrakech internet café. Shoulder to shoulder with bellowing German skype-users and unibrowed Moroccan gamers, I failed to notice when my bag, student visa et al., was thieved from my side. Hence, my reapplication for entry to the States...
...shoestring budget and relying on donations from admirers and the people to whose aid he came, Zhou preached the digital gospel, educating his pupils in the arts of establishing a blog, posting, taking digital photos and videos, using instant-messaging tools and sites like Flickr, Twitter and Skype - often working with people who had never even turned on a computer before. Isaac Mao, co-founder of Chinese site CNBlog.org, describes Zhou as someone who "represents the beginning of a new trend of Chinese Internet users ... It's brave for him to express his opinion on his blog...