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Center for Democracy & Technology | Keeping the Internet Open, Innovative and Free. Related articles The Declaration of Internet Freedom (muninetworks.org) Civil liberties groups praise revised cybersecurity bill (networkworld.com) Google and Facebook’s new tactic in the tech wars (tech.fortune.cnn.com) Is it time for an online ‘constitutional moment’? On the Declaration of Internet Freedom (blogs.siliconvalley.com) Journalists,…
Mac 101: Automator. this tool allows you to tag content automatically to implemenent the folksonomy approach to file storage and search Related articles Cloud Files vs. Cloud Drive (rackspace.com) New Conference Paper: Folksonomies as Subject Access – a Survey of Implementing Tagging in Library Online Catalogs and Discovery Layers (infodocket.com) Amazon Glacier: Back Up All…
Inspired by Khan Academy a new Stanford e-learning course on AI has triggered a huge volume of interest (4 times the size of the entire student body!) Stanford Artificial Intelligence course draws avalanche of sign-ups. Related articles Artificial Intelligence (unrealengine.com) Using Artificial Intelligence (And A Little Scolding) To Reduce Energy Use (fastcoexist.com) Artificial intelligence (cyberleague.wordpress.com)…
David Allen, Getting Things Done® and GTD®. this approach to time management focuses on organizing things by the context in which you do them, like you have done with the house: kitchen, office, recreation etc. Related articles GTD Times: Ten Ways To Get More Done At Work (gtdtimes.com) Test Your…
OmniPlan for Mac – The Omni Group. really good project management software. wish it was hosted and web based Related articles News: OmniPlan adds PDF export, task and resource reports (ilounge.com) Manage Projects Like A Pro On Your iPad [Feature] (cultofmac.com) RSS Sponsor: OmniPlan for iPad → (omnigroup.com) Weekly Poll: Which Omni Group Apps…
43 Folders | Time, Attention, and Creative Work. best project and time management approach Related articles Great Email Time Management Tips Part 1 (brucemayhew.wordpress.com) The Paradox Of Time- What I Have Learn’t So Far (auniqueworld.wordpress.com) Find Time to be Savvy-5 Favorite Sites for Tech, Time and Productivity (solo-e.com) Management Tip ~ Stop Wasting Your Boss’s…
John Rooksby. Related articles What kind of researcher do you want to be? (cassieearl.wordpress.com) Outside In: Breaking Some Anthropology Rules for Design [guest contributor] (ethnographymatters.net) More self-managing organizations? (orgtheory.wordpress.com) Ethnography & The Customer: Building a Compelling Brand (ablebrains.typepad.com) Ethnography revisited – timing and pacing (orgtheory.wordpress.com)
Ethnography.com » Blog Archive » “Culture” in the Science Fictional Universe of “Big Data”. Related articles Forget the Cloud: DNA Could Become the New Home for Big Data Storage (bostinno.com) New Web Intelligence and Big Data Coursera Class (datascience101.wordpress.com) UC Berkeley Big Data Bootcamp (datascience101.wordpress.com) The Big Apple’s Big…
CS224W Social and Information Network Analysis | Stanford University Online. Related articles Stanford’s Next Lesson: Free Online Courses For Credit And Degrees? (npr.org) Stanford’s Next Lesson: Free Online Courses For Credit And Degrees? (npr.org) Stanford adds social learning component to free online course (insidehighered.com) Digitization Projects: Stanford Releases Hundreds of Oral History Interviews Online (infodocket.com)…
How language transformed humanity | GrrlScientist | Science | guardian.co.uk Interesting TED Video and article suggesting that language has driven all biological and cultural evolution and is our most powerful neurological social technology allowing us to implant a thought into someone’s mind without the need for surgery according to Mark Pagel. Language created social learning…
A good overview of the need to make finance more social e.g. focused on the cultural, health and the environmental context of investments. David Blood is a graduate of Hamilton College ’81 who I heard at the reunion weekend.
Hipmunk updates flight search app for iPad | Travel | Macworld. Related articles Hipmunk Flight & Hotel Search (for iPad) (pcmag.com) Find your next flight with Hipmunk iPhone app (reviews.cnet.com) Review: Don’t leave home without Hipmunk’s travel search app for iOS (macworld.com) Hipmunk (pcmag.com) Hipmunk and Kayak launch tools to help you fly cheap (venturebeat.com)…
Introduced by noted anthropologist and dean Katherine Newman the graduation ceremony for JHU Krieger School of Arts and Sciences featured Thomas Lovejoy, founder of Nature series on PBS and the Biodiversity Chair at the Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment based in Washington, DC. Lovejoy noted that “human creativity is without limits” and critical…
I just returned from alumni weekend at Hamilton College and was amazed at the evolution of this school since I completed my studies there. A new science center that looks like an Apple store, expanding visibility for its expertise in writing, media and communications, a dynamic network of alumni and new e-learning platforms connecting it…
For years, other countries have been far more cautious about the impacts of electromagnetic radiation on human health than in the US and far too little is known about this as we increasingly expose ourselves to these fields. In parts of Europe for example there are much stricter regulations on exposure to EMFs than in…
Increasingly I’ve noted the rise in the rental economy in the USA as the previous ownership mentality of many Americans traumatized by economic collapse and wealth inequalities is replaced by one of access. One interesting example of this is college students who, according to a slew of recent articles, are now taking over McMansions which…
Most adults I know dismissed Twitter, with only 140 characters at their disposal, as a waste of time just a year ago. But after the Iranian revolts, the Arab Spring and the London riots in which Twitter played a key part, it is not so easily dismissed anymore. But its seemingly brief and trivial nature is…
Soon, several computer scientists argue, stock traders will locate themselves in optimal points long fiber optic cable routes (shown on the map) to optimize the speed of their trades by milliseconds. High-frequency trading is a new way for financial firms to make money by trading securities ultra-fast. Instead of holding securities for the long term,…
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