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Gestural shorthand and the new emoticons

NYT’s got an interesting article up on how video chat is changing how extended families keep in touch. Definitely worth a read for its own sake, but I call your attention to this quote:
But grandparents and grandchildren are already working on ways to nudge the medium a little closer to actual teleportation.
When Deborah Lafferty, 55, [...]

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Joe Biden uses social tech for collaboration

Politico has an article up about Joe Biden’s possible role in the new administration. This paragraph stuck out to me:
Biden is equally popular with some GOP staffers, drawing top-level Republican aides into free-ranging discussion on nettlesome policy problems, even setting up secure computer forums where aides can swap ideas without partisan recrimination, according to a [...]

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