i202 Fall 2009 School of Information, UC Berkeley

202 in the Whitehouse:  a selection from Obama's recent email communications from guardian.co.uk on 10/26:

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To: VPOTUS <joe.biden@whitehouse.gov>

Re: Fwd: "Jonas Bros music never been used in torture, except maybe here in the White House" Hilarious stuff!!!

Yeah, I've read it Joe. I'm the one who sent it to you. You see the thing at the top where it says "Fr: POTUS"? That means me. Barack

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(No, there's no need to verify Bob's ID at the next class.)

Having received a misaddressed email from a classmate recently, I was delighted to see this new Gmail feature from Google Labs.  It might be just the ticket for solving what they refer to as the "Got The Wrong Bob" problem: even a unique identifier like an email address doesn't help when misapplied.

 Here's my bootleg recording of bob's 202 review. its a little quiet, and missing the first 20 minutes, but that was the limitation of the tape recorder I was wearing. Happy Studies!

BobsReview.mp3