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Katherine Chipman

Welcome to FamilySearch - 0 views

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lds technology

shared by Katherine Chipman on 21 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Katherine Chipman on 21 Oct 10
     
    New.FamilySearch.org helps members of the church around the world organize and find information about their ancestors and ensure that their temple work is done. This is an example of what Elder Ballard said. He said, "The Lord over the centuries has had a hand in inspiring people to invent tools that facilitate the spreading of the gospel. The Church has adopted and embraced those tools, including print, broadcast media, and now the Internet."
Bri Zabriskie

Safaricom Ltd »  Mobile Phones, High Speed Internet, Broadband, SMS, M-PESA, ... - 0 views

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mpesa third world tech

shared by Bri Zabriskie on 11 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Bri Zabriskie on 11 Nov 10
     
    These guys provide the cell phones in Kenya. Am I the only one who thinks the proliferation of technology in a third-world country is amazingly bizarre?
Braquel Burnett

Technology Used by Church From Early Years - LDS Newsroom - 0 views

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technology church LDS

shared by Braquel Burnett on 27 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Grant’s wife Augusta noted at the time, “I am glad that I live in this age when every day — almost every hour — brings us some new inventions.”
  • Sputnik, the first Earth-orbiting satellite launched by Russia in 1957, inspired the development of satellite networks positioned well above the earth. The first United States broadcast over Telstar 1 in 1962 featured clips from a baseball game in Chicago, a news conference by President John F. Kennedy and a concert from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. 
  • “We are not breathlessly smitten by the Internet, nor are we in any way underestimating its possibilities,” said Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, Church leader, in a 1997 speech. “We are just moving steadily, and we think wisely, to use it along with every other way we know to communicate with each other.” 
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  • 1867 installation of a 500-mile telegraph line
  • Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876
  • 1896 development of the wireless telegraph
  • first broadcast in Pittsburgh in 1920
  • Heber J. Grant launched radio station KZN in 1922
  • radio station in 1925, changing the call letters to KSL.
  • July 1929, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
  • Closed circuit television broadcasts of conference began in 1948
  • first general broadcast occurred in October 1949
  • Bonneville Communications, an advertising arm of the Church, developed, in the early 1970s
  • By 2006, President Gordon B. Hinckley noted that Church-owned satellite dishes numbered 6,066 in 83 countries
  • 1954, general-purpose computers and a punch-card system were implemented in Church business functions.
  • LDS.org, which debuted in 1996
  • 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, another site, Mormon.org
  • Braquel Burnett on 27 Oct 10
     
    Church history and technology
Daniel Zappala

The Day The Internet Threw A Righteous Hissyfit About Copyright And Pie : Monkey See : NPR - 1 views

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copyright

shared by Daniel Zappala on 05 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Daniel Zappala on 05 Nov 10
     
    An online magazine editor claims "the web is considered public domain" to justify copying anything she wants and re-publishing it on her site. Astounding.
Chase McCloskey

Unplugged: Living Without Media - 1 views

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media

shared by Chase McCloskey on 27 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • How could you survive without the media, the internet and a mobile phone for 24 hours?
  • I didn't expect it, but being deprived of the media for 24 hours resulted in my day-to-day activities becoming so much harder to carry out than usual.
  • Brandon McCloskey on 27 Oct 10
     
    Following the idea of a media fast
  • Chase McCloskey on 01 Nov 10
     
    I liked one of the comments made, "I have no dependence on media interaction, but I certainly revel in it. I feel priveliged to have the opportunity to have so much access to so much information. If it was taken away, certainly I would feel deprived. What if took away your kettle and made you boil your cup of tea in a saucepan? You'd be pretty miffed no doubt. It's all about what you're used to and the disruption to that routine."
Brandon McCloskey

Crowdsourcing: Turning customers into creative directors - 1 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...business-11437839

crowdsourcing digiciv economy

shared by Brandon McCloskey on 08 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • "What we think is good for the consumer doesn't matter - it's what the consumer thinks is good that matters."
  • When you link the consumer to the manufacturer there are huge areas of opportunity
  • It's the internet, of course, that makes crowdsourcing possible - on a global scale.
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  • But there are pitfalls. "The biggest caveat is the issue of curation. It's great you opening the gates up to everybody - but all of a sudden you're going to get a lot more stuff."
  • "We later learned that it was this revolutionary business model. I think the reason it's so pure like that is the reason it's worked so well as a crowdsourcing company."
  • "I think that the way companies are seeing crowdsourcing is a lot different from the way we see it. They are looking at it as this new business model, as a way to outsource your work to an anonymous crowd of people. We're more about giving people something productive to do with their passions."
  • it's not so much the software that makes the company, it's the community
  • "It's an affordable way to be ahead. You're able to see what your customers are thinking and what they're dreaming of, and you're able to measure that against what you're doing."
  • His concern is that by "mining" the crowd in this way, the wealth that results from the work done remains concentrated in the hands of the people who put out the call - ultimately endangering jobs and the economy. Mr Lanier also believes that crowdsourcing threatens creativity.
  • Brandon McCloskey on 08 Nov 10
     
    Examples of successful crowdsourcing
Katherine Chipman

A is for Atom : Sutherland (John) Productions : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Ar... - 0 views

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atomic

shared by Katherine Chipman on 10 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Animated classic presenting what an atom is, how energy is released from certain kinds of atoms, the peacetime uses of atomic energy and the byproducts of nuclear fission.
  • Katherine Chipman on 10 Nov 10
     
    Very interesting--it was made in 1953.
Jeffrey Whitlock

Africa sees massive growth in mobile web usage | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

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      Jeffrey Whitlock on 17 Nov 10
       
      More on mobile phone penetration in Africa.
Brandon McCloskey

Top judge says internet 'could kill jury system' - 0 views

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government

shared by Brandon McCloskey on 21 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • The jury system may not survive if it is undermined by social networking sites
  • "We cannot stop people tweeting, but if jurors look at such material, the risks to the fairness of the trial will be very serious, and ultimately the openness of the trial process on which we all rely, would be damaged."
  • Brandon McCloskey on 21 Nov 10
     
    Interesting effects of social media
Brandon McCloskey

Untitled - Breadcrumb - 0 views

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programming

shared by Brandon McCloskey on 30 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Google Breadcrumb allows you to create an easy-to-use mobile learning application without any programming experience; your application works with only three additions to plain text. Easy to create and readable on Internet-enabled smart-phones or computers, Google Breadcrumb gives you maximum output for the development time.
Madeline Rupard

How "cuil" is it to misspell your brand name? - 0 views

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mainstream digiciv open computer internet www consumerism capitalism

shared by Madeline Rupard on 01 Dec 10 - Cached
  • Madeline Rupard on 01 Dec 10
     
    So true. Flickr. Prezi. Diigo. Scribd. All about the hilarity of trending website's names.
Madeline Rupard

Widget Box - Widget Maker - 0 views

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digiciv open internet communication blog web 2.0 awesome

shared by Madeline Rupard on 01 Dec 10 - Cached
  • Madeline Rupard on 01 Dec 10
     
    So, I just used this for my blog: http://tamesequels.blogspot.com, and will shortly be posting a digital literacy lab for this. Basically, if you want to put a blog feed as a widget on another blog, you can customize one for free on this website. It's really easy and it gives you a code at the end of the customization to post. Check out my blog to see one. It's the "My Photography" section, and you'll see how it posts everything from that blog really nicely. A great tool for making your website alive.
Brandon McCloskey

How I'd Hack Your Weak Passwords - 1 views

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security digiciv

shared by Brandon McCloskey on 10 Dec 10 - Cached
  • If you invited me to try and crack your password, you know the one that you use over and over for like every web page you visit, how many guesses would it take before I got it?
  • One of the simplest ways to gain access to your information is through the use of a Brute Force Attack. This is accomplished when a hacker uses a specially written piece of software to attempt to log into a site using your credentials.
  • And how fast could this be done? Well, that depends on three main things, the length and complexity of your password, the speed of the hacker's computer, and the speed of the hacker's Internet connection.
  • Brandon McCloskey on 10 Dec 10
     
    Now, I could go on for hours and hours more about all sorts of ways to compromise your security and generally make your life miserable - but 95% of those methods begin with compromising your weak password. So, why not just protect yourself from the start and sleep better at night?
Andrew DeWitt

YouTube - What is Google Chrome OS? - 1 views

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youtube google chrome os internet web web 2.0 web2.0 digiciv

shared by Andrew DeWitt on 15 Dec 10 - Cached
  • Andrew DeWitt on 15 Dec 10
     
    Wow!  Google Chrome is becoming its own OS.  If you thought using a mac was really easy and user friendly, image a computer where the computer IS your web brower.
Gideon Burton

the creative internet (106 things) - 5 views

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Google design creativity digital

shared by Gideon Burton on 29 Apr 11 - No Cached
Andrew DeWitt liked it
  • Gideon Burton on 29 Apr 11
     
    Amazing set of creative uses of the new media put together by Google.
  • Andrew DeWitt on 30 Apr 11
     
    Its really amazing what is out there!
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