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Gideon Burton

iGoogle - 0 views

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    Create a custom home page with RSS feeds and widgets, or even your Gmail.
Greg Williams

How Computerized Tutors Are Learning to Teach Humans - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    The machines are taking over
David Potter

"The Kindle Swindle" - 1 views

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    Editorial by the President of the Authors Guild talking about because Kindle does not own the audio rights to the books, they shouldn't allow the text to speech function. However, this is a big blow to the disabled communties abilitiy to consume Kindle media.
Parker Woody

Free Journals Grow Amid Ongoing Debate -- Kaiser 329 (5994): 896 -- Science - 0 views

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    Great article on the open access campaign of scholarly journals.
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    Article on the open access campaign of scientific journals
Katherine Chipman

The Law of the Internet | OER Commons - 0 views

  • Concurrently, we encounter problems that no one anticipated as we collectively built the internet as we know it today. This seminar will consider some of the most intriguing of the issues to which the advent of the internet has given and continues to give rise. It will focus on a cluster of topics about which any computer user likely knows a good deal already: spam, spyware, peer-to-peer file sharing, personal privacy, and e-commerce. It will also venture into a few issues-like blogging, RSS (Really Simple Syndication), social software, and internet filtering-that may be less familiar.
Gideon Burton

What If We Ran Universities Like Wikipedia? - 2 views

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    a new form of academic organization is emerging...
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    I think Wikipedia-esque universities would be much more efficient. Kind of in the way free market economies tend to maximize economic output, "free market" universities would tend to maximize educational output. Are there any universities which currently implement this?
Brandon McCloskey

Chinese Cow Manure Generates Electricity In Largest-Ever Methane Capture System | Popul... - 0 views

  • A gigantic Chinese dairy farm is now the world’s largest methane farm, turning a massive source of greenhouse gas emissions into a lucrative renewable energy source.
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    How agricultural advancements are evolving their own energy converters.
Brandon McCloskey

Web 2.0 for all? - 0 views

  • a lot of work around standards for Web 2.0 work has yet to properly started, let alone finished.
  • Some of this work has happened. Things like RSS feeds, XML etc have made it simpler for computers to share complicated bits of data. But it hasn't gone far enough and it's not just data.
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