talkingDigital

Over the past five years (maybe more) talkingDigital has changed directions many times. Most recently the site was used as the master feed for a number of podcasts. We will continue to produce podcasts and post the latest episodes here, but the content of the site will be soon be expanding.

talkingDigital is the home base for a variety of ongoing projects and experiments conducted by Adam Cochran, a professor of Mass Communication at Colorado Mesa University. For the past year and a half, Cochran has been working on an M.A. in Journalism from the University of Memphis. With the degree work completed, he now has time to work on expanding the content on talkingDigital. We hope to add more podcasts, but also post on topics that are important to the talkingDigital team.

Our passions at talkingDigital are centered around the role of technology in art, education, and industrial progress. We love politics, disruptive technologies, religion and almost any other subject that tends to lead to world-change. We hope that you enjoy the new direction and we encourage you to comment and participate in the discussions presented.

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This is the second half of our discussion about Facebook with a panel of guests from the Grand Junction Business Incubator Center.

In this episode, we discuss some of the more advanced concepts of Facebook and we break them down and try to explain them on a basic level. We discuss Facebook pages, who should not use Facebook, how to handle negative feedback and much more.

As a bonus, here’s a link to some of the material we edited out of the interview. Some of it was deep conversation about Facebook that could not, by any stretch of the imagination, be defined as basic. Other segments were simply goofy bloopers.

For more discussion about how to get the most out of social media, visit Lumigrate.com.

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In this episode we discuss…

• The mind of IBM‘s Watson
• Facebook friend acceptance guidelines
• Norton’s arbitrary cybercrime index
• Samsung Galaxy 10.1 – it looks like an iPad until you use it
• Android vs. iOS comments
• Colbert vs. Huffington post
• Listener email and web spam
• Picasa 3 is good – use it
• Narcissistic teenagers with digital cameras
• Secrets of device manager
• Music for this podcast:
• Disco High by UltraCast
  http://freemusicarchive.org/music/UltraCat/Disco_High/ultracat_-_01_-_disco_high
• HelpMeRick.com & talkingDigital

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• Castellini on Computers 008 – Flynn is my user (talkingdigital.org)
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• Castellini on Computers 010 – Summers in Meeker (talkingdigital.org)