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Connecting, Curating and Changing | NWP Digital Is - 0 views

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Evaluating Sources: The CRAAP Test - Information Literacy Research Skill Building - Lib... - 0 views

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    "Currency The timeliness of the information: When was the information published or posted? Does the time period that the information was published matter in relation to your topic? When was the information last revised? (onine often found in the footer area) If reviewing a web source, are the links current or are they broken? Relevance or Coverage The importance of the information in relation to your topic: What is the depth of coverage? Is the informtion provided central to your topic or does the source just touch on your topic? Is the information unique? Who is the intended audience? Basically, is the information at the appropriate level for your research or does it target a different type of audience? Is better information available in another source? Authority Consider the source: Can you tell who wrote it? If the author is not identified who is the sponsor, publisher, or organization behind the information? Are the author's credentials or organizational affiliations listed? Is contact information available? Is the source reputable? Accuracy The reliability, truthfulness, and correctness of the informational content: Where does the information presented come from? Are the sources listed? Are the sources reputable? Can you verify the information in other sources or from your own knowledge? Corroborate! Does the language or tone seem free of bias or ideologically based arguments? Purpose or Objectivity The reason the information exists: What is the purpose of the information? Inform? Teach? Sway opinion? Sell? Entertain? Can you determine possible bias? If you can are they clearly stated or do they become apparent through a close reading? Does the point of view appear objective? Does the site provide information or does it attempt to debunk other information? (Weighing positive evidence versus negative evidence) "
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The Origins of Good Ideas - WSJ.com - 0 views

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  • the way that good ideas usually come into the world. They are, inevitably, constrained by the parts and skills that surround them.
  • the adjacent possible defines all those molecular reactions that were directly achievable in the primordial soup. Sunflowers and mosquitoes and brains exist outside that circle of possibility. The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself.
  • The strange and beautiful truth about the adjacent possible is that its boundaries grow as you explore them
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  • Johannes Gutenberg, for instance, took the older technology of the screw press, designed originally for making wine, and reconfigured it with metal type to invent the printing press.
  • The premise that innovation prospers when ideas can serendipitously connect and recombine with other ideas may seem logical enough, but the strange fact is that a great deal of the past two centuries of legal and folk wisdom about innovation has pursued the exact opposite argument, building walls between ideas.
  • intellectual property, trade secrets, proprietary technology, top-secret R&D labs.
  • they reduce the overall network of minds that can potentially engage with a problem, and they reduce the unplanned collisions between ideas originating in different fields.
  • Modeled on the success of services like Twitter and Flickr, new Web startups now routinely make their software accessible to programmers who are not on their payroll, allowing these outsiders to expand on and remix the core product in surprising new ways.
  • Nike announced a new Web-based marketplace it calls the GreenXchange, where it has publicly released more than 400 of its patents that involve environmentally friendly materials or technologies. The marketplace is a kind of hybrid of commercial self-interest and civic good. This makes it possible for outside firms to improve on those innovations, creating new value that Nike might ultimately be able to put to use itself in its own products.
  • Nike is widening the network of minds who are actively thinking about how to make its ideas more useful, without adding any more employees
  • might well turn out to be advantageous to industries or markets
  • Apollo 13 mission
  • the mission control engineers realize they need to create an improvised carbon dioxide filter, or the astronauts will poison the lunar module atmosphere with their own exhalations before they return to Earth.
  • "We gotta find a way to make this fit into a hole for this," he says, and then points to the spare parts on the table, "using nothing but that."
  • the building blocks that create—and limit—the space of possibility for a specific problem
  • The trick is to get more parts on the table.
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