Chris Mejia
Chris Mejia
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TEHCNOLOGY COLUMN | iPod nano sets the bar high with handy, fun features
When it first came out, the original iPod conquered the music industry and became the standard by which any other media player was measured. By today’s standards, however, the original iPod seems quite unwieldy; and now, the iPod nano has become the flagship non-touchscreen iPod in Apple’s lineup, making the iPod classic an afterthought for those who need to carry around 160GB of music.
TECHNOLOGY COLUMN | Web offers access, not accuracy
Back in the early days of the World Wide Web, before the Internet became virtually omnipresent in businesses and households, the idea of an “Information Superhighway” — a term coined by Al Gore — that connected every household and allowed them both to consume and provide information was a distant possibility. And although the term seems somewhat dated in the age of Web 2.0, it is still a good analogy.
Technology column: In everyone we trust?
Wikipedia has been hailed as one of the most successful collaborative Web projects of all time. Hosting over 3 million articles in English alone, the site is one of the largest repositories of freely available information. It would take about 1,000 volumes to translate the contents of Wikipedia into print. The philosophy of the Wikimedia foundation, which runs Wikipedia as well as several other sites, is that anyone can contribute and anyone can access.
TECHNOLOGY COLUMN | A music player you can operate eyes-free
When you open its tiny box, the first thing you notice about Apple’s newest generation of the iPod Shuffle isn’t its miniscule dimensions — that it’s almost the same size as a stick of gum, or that it weighs less than two quarters.
TECH COLUMN | Mejia: Kindle inherently less useful than iPod
Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader has much in common with Apple’s iPod: a sleek, white design, a huge content library and a compact form. But while the iPod has become the behemoth of portable music players — to the point where some people call any digital music player an iPod — the Kindle doesn’t seem poised for the same kind of success.
TECH COLUMN | Mejia: Twitter generates buzz on the news scene
Step aside, bloggers: Your days as the go-to reporters of the Internet are numbered. Twitter has shown itself to be a worthy, albeit unlikely, competitor to more traditional blog style news reporting.
Mejia: Obama’s tech savvy may boost gov’t.
All eyes are on President Obama as he embarks on the process of reversing America’s struggling economy while dealing with international turmoil. So much so, in fact, that people are watching every move he makes — down to his phone of choice.
Mejia: Merging television and the Web
Digital media and television are on a collision course.
Mejia: User-generated content: A fad, or here to stay?
Since YouTube was founded in early 2005, it has hosted over 80 million videos. In 2006, Time Magazine declared “you” the Person of the Year.
Mejia: Cloud computing puts apps online
If I told you the next big thing in tech was going to be cloud computing, you might be a little confused. After all, clouds and computers don’t usually go together.