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Kevin Watson

Open Government - 2 views

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gov2.0 digiciv open government

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  • Kevin Watson on 16 Sep 10
     
    Great article on the Gov 2.0 conference, and how open government can be furthered by our use of the internet and technology we have today.
Kristen Nicole Cardon

Electronic Thesis IP&T - 0 views

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technology resesarch BYU thesis

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  • Kristen Nicole Cardon on 23 Sep 10
     
    A fascinating dissertation on engagement in education.
Katherine Chipman

Ethics and Law on the Electronic Frontier, Spring 2002 | OER Commons - 0 views

www.oercommons.org/...lectronic-frontier-spring-2002

internet

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  • The interaction between law, policy, and technology as they relate to the evolving controversies over control of the Internet. Topics include: intellectual property and copyright control, privacy and government surveillance, and freedom of expression and content control.
Madeline Rupard

For the Digitally Illiterate - 1 views

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computer digiciv technology old people

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  • Madeline Rupard on 19 Oct 10
     
    This flowchart speaks the truth. Just for fun.
Brandon McCloskey

BBC News - Sick PCs should be banned from the net says Microsoft - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-11483008

computers bbc digiciv

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  • Brandon McCloskey on 07 Oct 10
     
    Applying lessons learned from society to computers. Interesting view of the internet.
Jeffrey Chen

Mormon media in the 20th century - 1 views

www.ldschurchnews.com/...in-20th-century-Mormonism.html

digiciv media mormonism lds.org

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  • Jeffrey Chen on 21 Oct 10
     
    Check this out. The Church really embraces media as a tool for good!
Kristen Nicole Cardon

Classic Movie "Avatar" Updated for Today's Audiences - 1 views

www.theonion.com/...ted-for-todays-audiences,18052

Satire Technology Digiciv Onion

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  • "Avatar was a true classic of its time,
  • "Our hipper, bolder, and updated movie is sure to resonate with younger generations and older fans alike."
  • Kristen Nicole Cardon on 28 Sep 10
     
    Quite funny! Think of how fast we can update in the digital renaissance.
Gideon Burton

They Call It Hacktivism - 0 views

www.gis.net/hacktivism.html

hactivism cyberactivism

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  • What are the limits of political protest in cyberspace, where the boundaries between public and private space are murky? How far can activists go without infringing on the rights of the people against whom they are protesting? As international reliance on computer technology increases, can anyone with a little technical know-how declare their own war?
  • 'In cyberspace, you don't have clear public byways intersecting private spaces, so there is no place to camp out and play your First Amendment card. If you try to deny service to someone else, by whatever means you use, you could be in pretty big trouble.'' The FBI spokesperson said that the use of Floodnet could constitute a federal crime: It is illegal to intentionally block access to an Internet server. But the members of the collective argue that they are simply gathering at the gateway, not chaining themselves to the door.
  • Gideon Burton on 12 Oct 10
     
    The onset of cyberactivism / hactivism in 1999 raises important questions.
Erin Hamson

The Frontier In American History: Chapter X - 0 views

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  • As the American pioneer passed on in advance of this new tide of European immigration, he found lands increasingly limited
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      The close of the Frontier
  • . But the captains of industry by applying squatter doctrines to the evolution of American industrial society, have made the process so clear that he who runs may read.
  • it seemed not impossible that the outcome of free competition under individualism was to be monopoly of the most important natural resources and processes by a limited group of men whose vast fortunes were so invested in allied and dependent industries that they constituted the dominating force in the industrial life of the nation
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      Unregulated turn of events, the people were turned loose and made the best of it. What is wrong with this? They set the standards, and there is no room for competition.
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  • Mr. Harriman
  • mastering the economic forces of the nation
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      According to Adam Smith and the free market economy theory, the people are the best regulators. This sounds like socialism...
  • The Granger and the Populist were prophets of this reform movement. Mr. Bryan's Democracy, Mr. Debs' Socialism, and Mr. Roosevelt's Republicanism all had in common the emphasis upon the need of governmental regulation of industrial tendencies in the interest of the common man
  • "the State University and the public school system which it crowns would be the strongest evidence of its fitness which it could offer."
  • "general system of education ascending in regular gradations from township schools to a State University, wherein tuition shall be gratis and equally open to all," expresses the Middle Western conception born in the days of pioneer society and doubtless deeply influenced by Jeffersonian democracy.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      applying pioneer principles of avaliability and indivdualism to education and other opportunities to suceed in life as presently constituted.
  • propaganda to induce students to continue
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      Want everyone to go to college to become their best individual self.
  • all under the ideal of service to democracy rather than of individual advancement alone
  • The times call for educated leaders.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      And have yet to cease to call for experienced leaders. Which is why we are all sitting here reading this, to become educated leaders.
  • The test tube and the microscope are needed rather than ax and rifle in this new ideal of conquest
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      influence of technology on life
  • It is hardly too much to say that the best hope of intelligent and principled progress in economic and social legislation and administration lies in the increasing influence of American universities.
  • able to think for themselves, governed Dot by ignorance, by prejudice or by impulse, but by knowledge and reason and high-mindedness,
  • The learning of the few is despotism; the learning of the many is liberty.
  • At first pioneer democracy had scant respect for the expert.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      individualism
  • That they may perform their work they must be left free, as the pioneer was free, to explore new regions and to report what they find; for like the pioneers they have the ideal of investigation, they seek new horizons.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      application of pioneer ideals
  • Thus it is the function of the university to reveal to the individual the mystery and the glory of life as a whole
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      opening the mind to new ideas and ideals
Brandon McCloskey

BBC News - Hardware hacking just for a laugh - 1 views

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digiciv hackers

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  • Brandon McCloskey on 12 Oct 10
     
    More hacking for fun
Brandon McCloskey

BBC News - Tech Know: Hacking the everyday - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-11430070

digiciv hackers

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    Hackers at work
Katherine Chipman

Overview - The Babbage Engine | Computer History Museum - 0 views

www.computerhistory.org/...overview

babbage

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  • Babbage embarked on an ambitious venture to design and build mechanical calculating engines to eliminate the risk of human error in the production of printed tables. The 'unerring certainty of machinery' would solve the problem of human fallibility. His work on the engines led him from mechanized arithmetic to the entirely new realm of automatic computation. Tabular errors provided a practical stimulus. But this was not his only motive. He also saw his engines as a new technology of mathematics.
  • It was not only the grindingly tedious labor of verifying a sea of figures that exasperated Babbage, but their daunting unreliability. Engineering, astronomy, construction, finance, banking and insurance depended on printed tables for calculation. Ships navigating by the stars relied on printed tables to find their position at sea. The stakes were high. Capital and life were thought to be at risk.
Bri Zabriskie

Technology and Education | Box of Tricks - 0 views

www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1121

presentations education web2.0 digiciv literacy labs

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  • Bri Zabriskie on 14 Oct 10
     
    Here's some awesome ideas for digital literacy labs (or if you need a cool way to present your latest reading assignment). Prezi's not the only one out there. :)
Madeline Rupard

Encounters at the End of the World - 0 views

www.imdb.com/tt1093824

science technology documentary film review

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  • Madeline Rupard on 05 Oct 10
     
    Well, there's snow on the mountains finally. I am one of the few people who smiles at the sight of white. I have this weird obsession with Antarctica and I want to say how greatly I adore this film I watched the other day. If you have any interest in cold places as I do, I HIGHLY recommend this beautiful film by Werner Herzog (director of Grizzly Man). Its not a simple Planet Earth documentary, but examines why all of these different people end up at the bottom of the world. And some of the under ice scuba diving is simply breathtaking. FYI, it's on instant view on netflix.
  • Katherine Chipman on 05 Oct 10
     
    Wow! The pictures look amazing! I'm definitely going to look into it! Thanks for sharing!
Madeline Rupard

Rebels Against the Future - 0 views

reason.com/...rebels-against-the-future

digiciv science revolution

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  • Madeline Rupard on 05 Oct 10
     
    I wasn't aware that there was a legit, active anti-technology movement in the world today. Apparently there is.
LeeAnne Lowry

Rapid Advances in Techonolgy - 0 views

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digiciv techonology

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    It's shocking how fast new technology replaces the old.
LeeAnne Lowry

Philo Farnsworth - 0 views

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digiciv technology

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  • LeeAnne Lowry on 14 Oct 10
     
    The top ten inventions post got me interested in learning how they were invented, and I especially like the explanation of the invention of the television--not to mention it was invented by Philo Farnworth, a "Mormon"!
Kristi Koerner

THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING - 0 views

ei.cs.vt.edu/~history

technology

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  • Kristi Koerner on 14 Oct 10
     
    Interesting collection of materials on computing.
Bri Zabriskie

Plover: Freeing Stenography | Geek Feminism Blog - 0 views

geekfeminism.org/...plover-freeing-stenography

open source software stenography

shared by Bri Zabriskie on 13 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • overlap between the stenographic and computer geek worlds is bafflingly small, considering how vital efficient text entry is to virtually every tech field
  • on-commercial applications for stenographic technology.
  • into any X window using a $45 off-the-shelf keyboard.
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  • Steno is the only text input system that’s functionally equivalent to conversational human speech.
  • wearable computing is unlikely to really take off until we get the head-mounted display issue worked out, and I don’t currently have any idea of how to make that happen on a practical level.
  • could be attached to thighs, belly, biceps, or wherever,
    • Bri Zabriskie
      Bri Zabriskie on 13 Oct 10
       
      initial reaction? weird, weird weird weird!
  • phonetic system in your muscle memory.
    • Bri Zabriskie
      Bri Zabriskie on 13 Oct 10
       
      which is why TypeWell which expands words when you type all the consonants is so much easier to remember. Plus you can program your own abbreviations. It' makes mroe sense for the general public. And how are Deaf/ HoH people supposed to learn the phonetic system of what to them is a foreign language? That seems a bit short sighted to me. 
  • hackathon
    • Bri Zabriskie
      Bri Zabriskie on 13 Oct 10
       
      a what?
  • Bri Zabriskie on 13 Oct 10
     
    Interview with someone who's created an open source stenograpic keyboard emulator for transcription services. I work in transcription so I think this is pretty stinking awesome.
Jeffrey Chen

Grant for evolution museum - 0 views

www.thecrimson.com/...shen-grant-million-science

science digiciv evolution money

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  • Jeffrey Chen on 19 Oct 10
     
    Cool technology helps us better understand the science of evolution
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