Our Valley 2009

• Introduction

  In the early 1990s Jim Teece used to show folks at the Jackson County Fair the latest novelty, a little thing called the Internet.

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  WoW Factor

  It is a place where you are as strong as you want to be. Acquiring better armor and gold are the goals. Killing is the way of life.

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  You Tube, We Tube

  If a picture is worth 1,000 words, then what value can be placed on a streaming video seen by thousands of YouTube visitors from across the globe?

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  Upgrade

  Any parent will tell you that getting information from children is an uphill battle as it is, let alone when the subject involves how they're doing in school.

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  A Better Plan-It

  As a television producer, Cynthia Salbato always looked for ways to steer viewers to the Internet, giving them more information, resources or interactive guides to her programming.

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  The Great Beyond

  Who knew the Internet would go from being a fringe curiosity to being an indispensable part of our lives in less than 20 years? And who knows where the Internet will be 20 years from now?

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  Something Clicked

  Talent resident Anna Baker was a widow with a college-age daughter and a 9-year-old son; Bill Powell had been divorced for 10 years. They met on the Internet in 2004, then corresponded by e-mail for a few weeks before meeting for coffee at Talent's Downtowne Coffee House.

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  Textbook Case

  Penny-pinching university students are learning the Web can be like an electronic thrift store, and they're using it to purchase textbooks for less than half the bookstore price, finding the best deals at such sites as Amazon.com, half.com and Chegg.com.

• Downloading Nature

• Serving Sports Fans From Across The Rogue Valley

• Home Pages

• Rebooting

• Game Video

• I Blog Therefore I Am

• Eyes in the Sky

• Automatic for the People

• An App A Day

• The ta-da! moment

• Millisecond Opinion

• If You Build It ...

• All the news that's fit to link

• Cast A Wider Net

• Enter Key

• Up and Running

• Creating A Sense Of .Com(munity)

• Born To Surf

• Facebook: The Nation

• Can You Hear ... err ... See Me Now?

Archives

Our Valley 2008

Our Valley: Who Does That? Odd jobs in the Rogue Valley.

Our Valley 2007

2007's edition of Our Valley, subtitled "Now You Know," is dedicated to those pesky little questions which nag at you for years.

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