January 2012
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Fix My Street – anywhere! | Jon Worth →
links to local variants on ‘fixmystreet’ from around the world
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“The key to public speaking is establishing a routine that solves for the thirty...”
– Public Speaking for Normal People
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“as soon as Codecademy first launched, the site was inundated by requests from...”
– Codecademy Becomes A Platform: Now Anyone Can Write Programming Tutorials | TechCrunch
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“As of the end of 2011, there are 762 billion (762,000,000,000) objects in Amazon...”
– Amazon S3 Reports Staggering Growth in 2011 - ReadWriteCloud
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“Sound historians Patrick Feaster and Stephan Puille have managed to pull the...”
– Edison’s Files Reveal the Only Known Voice Recording of Someone Born in the 18th Century - Rebecca J. Rosen - Technology - The Atlantic
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“The problem, I began to realize, was my own understanding of how the iPads...”
– Redefining Instruction With Technology: Five Essential Steps
This teacher gets it, and her article perfectly summarizes my feelings on educational technology, why it fails, and why it succeeds.
(via world-shaker)
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“Twenty-five years after the fact, Allan Scherr, a Ph.D. researcher at MIT in the...”
– The World’s First Computer Password? It Was Useless Too | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
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“iPads are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made”
– iNdustrial Revolutions | TechCrunch
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“Britain’s new world champion (Mail Online)… rejects any form of...”
– New York Times bows to Mail Online – for now | Media | The Observer
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“Sheryl Sandberg – Chief Operating Officer at Facebook – spoke at Hubert Burda’s...”
– Google, Facebook, Privacy — And You | TechCrunch
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“Online, you play at being yourself. Apply that pressure of public performance to...”
– I’m all for sharing, but why the online obsession with revealing every detail of your life? | Charlie Brooker | Comment is free | The Guardian
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“It’s daunting, actually, to think about how hard I would have to work, and...”
– On (Not) Learning to Code - Alan Jacobs - Technology - The Atlantic
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“of the 33% of cell owners who used their phone recently in a store to look up...”
– Pew: More Than Half Of Adults Used Cell Phones In Stores For Purchasing Decisions During The Holidays | TechCrunch
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“(Kickstarter) helped finance 10 percent of the (Sundance) festival’s slate, 17...”
– Many Kickstarter-Funded Films Played at the Sundance Film Festival - NYTimes.com
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animalfaceoff.co.uk →
I LOVE THIS… I survived the easy, but that was it :-)
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Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles" |... →
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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.
...”
– 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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Watch(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 