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Brandon McCloskey

BBC News - Ray Ozzie tells Microsoft to 'go beyond the PC' - 0 views

  • For the most part, we've grown to perceive of "computing" as being equated with specific familiar "artifacts" such as the "computer", the "program" that's installed on a computer, and the "files" that are stored on that computer's "desktop
  • Such thinking, he said, was becoming less and less relevant as the way people used computers and what they did changed
  • Connections rather than computers were more important
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  • To prosper and stay relevant, he said, Microsoft must embrace this change and get to grips with a world that cares about "continuous services" rather than computers
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    Wow, this is really relevant to a lot of things we've been talking about in class. I highlighted a good part of it.
Jake Corkin

Freud's Theories About Sex As Relevant as Ever - 0 views

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    an opinion essay on Freud's relevance today
Jake Corkin

Freud's Influence Has Waned But Many Ideas Hold Sway - 0 views

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    another opinion essay on the relevance of freud in modern psychology
Jeffrey Whitlock

Choosing a smart password - Official Gmail Blog - 3 views

    • Jeffrey Whitlock
       
      This is a informative, brief, and relevant blog post with good advice on how to protect your interent security
    • Andrew DeWitt
       
      It is interesting... often feel stuck in the delimea of making up a new password for each new website that I will have to remember or reuse an old password.
Rhett Ferrin

Digg - Seafood Crisis - Will There Be Any Left In The Future? - 0 views

    • Rhett Ferrin
       
      I felt that this comment was relevant to class. 170 billion pounds!!!
Jeffrey Whitlock

The pioneers: or, The sources of the ... - Google Books - 0 views

    • Jeffrey Whitlock
       
      Written by one of the most popular early romanticist writers. A book very relevant to our class because it contains themes from both Romanticism and the Frontier.
Rhett Ferrin

Crowdsourcing - 0 views

shared by Rhett Ferrin on 29 Sep 10 - Cached
    • Rhett Ferrin
       
      This is the author's blog about crowdsourcing, so this will give you relevant, up to date information.
  • Crowdsourcing: A Definition I like to use two definitions for crowdsourcing: The White Paper Version: Crowdsourcing is the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent (usually an employee) and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call. The Soundbyte Version: The application of Open Source principles to fields outside of software.
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    Jeff Howe's blog about the topic he has championed in Wired and through his book Crowdsourcing.
Mike Lemon

Relevance of evolution: medicine - 0 views

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    Why should I study evolution? Here's an example.
anonymous

The Turing Dating Show - 0 views

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    I thought that this was a comical video that was relevant to the topic today
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