January 2012
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FULL marks to Apple for devising ways to improve how science, mathematics and...
– The future of teaching: Difference engine: Let the games begin | The Economist
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About half of the Stanford stat professors have joint appointments with other...
– What Are the Odds That Stats Would Be This Popular? - NYTimes.com
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Today marks the launch of a new Google Crisis Response project: Google Public...
– Official google.org Blog: Public Alerts now on Google Maps
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Companies need to start strengthening their digital assets:
— Information...
– bcg.perspectives - The Connected World
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It took $300 million and 13 years to map the first human genome.
Now, less than...
– bcg.perspectives - The Connected World
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Burberry, a British fashion house founded in 1856 that allocates 60 percent of...
– bcg.perspectives - The Connected World
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In emerging markets, traditional companies wanting to build their online retail...
– bcg.perspectives - The Connected World
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Online purchases will account for more than 20 percent of retailing in the U.K....
– bcg.perspectives - The Connected World
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The U.K., for example, has become a nation of digital shopkeepers, but the...
– bcg.perspectives - The Connected World
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every year about 200 million people are going online for the very first time.
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– BBC News - Web economy in G20 set to double by 2016, Google says
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In the early days of electricity, companies would have had a head of electricity...
– Small businesses are the ‘real Internet companies’ not Google, says exec - Telegraph
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(via Next Generation Media Quarterly January 2012) another great roundup Dan :-)
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The Daily Mail, an omniverous middle-market British tabloid, has quietly...
– The Biggest Newspaper In The World Is … The Daily Mail!?
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An engineer, a physicist, and a computer scientist were discussing what was the...
– SS > jokes > Engineer, Scientist, Mathematician
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We believe that the next stop in copying will be made from digital form into...
– The Pirate Bay: ‘The Next Step in Copying Will Be Made From Digital Form Into Physical Form’ - Megan Garber - Technology - The Atlantic
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The board, according to the Longitude Act, could give incentive awards to help...
– Steven Johnson (steven) > Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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The actual Longitude Act, issued in the reign of Queen Anne on July 8, 1714, did...
– Steven Johnson (steven) > Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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Forbes’ excellent privacy blogger, Kashmir Hill, may have coined (or...
– Neologism Watch: From Hashtag to Bashtag - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
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YouTube now sees 4 billion video views per day. That’s a 25% increase over the...
– YouTube Reaches 4 Billion Views Per Day | TechCrunch
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Tuesday’s State of the Union Address from U.S. President Barack Obama will...
– Crowdsourcing the State of the Union | The Mozilla Blog
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while digital music sales still make up a minority of the music industry’s...
– Digital Sales Grow Worldwide, Big Music Still Frets About Pirates - Peter Kafka - Media - AllThingsD
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85% of net new jobs in the EU between 2002 and 2010 were created by small and...
– SME Performance Review - Small and medium sized enterprises (SME) - Enterprise and Industry
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Only 2% of Google engineers WEREN’T exposed to computer science at high...
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http://cnettv.cnet.com/highlights-from-cnet-women-tech-panel-ces/9742-1_53-50118179.html
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Computer hackers plan to take the internet beyond the reach of censors by...
– BBC News - Hackers plan space satellites to combat censorship
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In a 2011 telephone survey, the Pew Internet and American Life Project found...
– Teenagers Sharing Passwords as Show of Affection - NYTimes.com
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In the three hours following Stargazing Live being aired we saw an almost...
– Professor Brian Cox triggers telescope sales rise on Amazon - Tech News - Digital Spy
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The 35 per cent of ICT teachers with specialist qualifications compares poorly...
– Gove’s plans for school ICT are ‘high risk’ - Public Service
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We’re at a crossroads where it is now obvious that simply throwing away...
– Lauren Weinstein’s Blog: In Defense (Ouch!) of Facebook’s Data Deal with Politico
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Piracy is not going to be solved by the heavy hand of the law. As far as...
– SOPA is the equivalent of smashing the Gutenberg press – Telegraph Blogs (via infoneer-pulse)
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ifttt / Recipes →
So, this is a test to see if IFTTT is working… If this shows up in Evernote and Twitter then all is good!
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GalaxyZoo, a citizen-science site, has classified millions of objects in space,...
– ‘Open Science’ Challenges Journal Tradition With Web Collaboration - NYTimes.com
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If most of the people we encounter online are weak ties rather than close...
– Steven Johnson (steven) > Online echo chambers: A study of 250 million Facebook users reveals the Web isn’t as polarized as we thought.
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The possibilities for flexible text seem limitless. Rutherford says she...
– Beyond Choose Your Own Adventure: Coliloquy Ebooks Give Readers an Active Role
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