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Online Executive Editor for News at [IDG's Network World] (http://www.networkworld.com/) , which covers news for IT professionals. I edit, write, blog, take photos and videos and spend way too much time on social media. Areas of focus include wireless, startups and university research.

In my ample spare time I run a website about my [hometown] (http://theswellesleyreport.com/).

Have written for the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Boston University's Bostonia, [WellesleyWeston Magazine] (http://w…

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Wi-Fi hotspot blocking persists despite FCC crackdown

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An epic search for the IBM Verse email system

An epic search for the IBM Verse email system

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Jack Sanford — The greatest Wellesley sports star you probably never heard of

Jack Sanford — The greatest Wellesley sports star you probably never heard of

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Why there's no Nobel Prize in Computing

Why there's no Nobel Prize in Computing

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Whirling through the world of propeller beanies

Whirling through the world of propeller beanies

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FIRST LOOK: Ray Ozzie's Talko cloud calling/messaging iPhone app

FIRST LOOK: Ray Ozzie's Talko cloud calling/messaging iPhone app

I never did use Ray Ozzie's Lotus Notes or Groove (acquired by Microsoft) collaboration tools, mainly because…

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Shun the shackles of party control | Bob Brown Original

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By Bob Brown
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A few years ago, University of Montana Professor Harry Fritz and I had the opportunity to team teach a class on American culture and politics at Nankai University in Tianjin, China. I had a previous experience at Nankai, so I wasn’t surprised that our Chinese students required no interpreter. They had completed 12 years of English training and could easily speak and understand English. kAm%96 r9:?6D6 DEF56?EDV F?56CDE2?5:?8 @7 p>6C:42?
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FBI Raids Office of Virginia Democrat Who Led Redistricting Effort

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By Bob Brown
| Lexington Herald-Leader Verified
Virginia Legislature. Senator L. Louise Lucas, D-Portsmouth, waits to vote as the Senate Courts of Justice met in the Old Senate Chamber inside the State Capitol in Richmond, Va., Friday, March 4, 2016, to vote for Judge Rossie D. Alston to be named to the Supreme Court of Virginia and Judge Kenneth Melvin to replace Alston on the Court of Appeals. (Bob Brown/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT The FBI searched the district office of Virginia Senate leader L.
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FBI Raids Office of Virginia Democrat Who Led Redistricting Effort

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By Bob Brown
| Fort Worth Star-Telegram Verified
Virginia Legislature. Senator L. Louise Lucas, D-Portsmouth, waits to vote as the Senate Courts of Justice met in the Old Senate Chamber inside the State Capitol in Richmond, Va., Friday, March 4, 2016, to vote for Judge Rossie D. Alston to be named to the Supreme Court of Virginia and Judge Kenneth Melvin to replace Alston on the Court of Appeals. (Bob Brown/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT The FBI searched the district office of Virginia Senate leader L.
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