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LeeAnne Lowry

T.S. Elliot: The Modernist in History - 0 views

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digiciv modernism

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  • LeeAnne Lowry on 28 Oct 10
     
    This is actually quite a cool book. It focuses on his life and the issues he raised and how he helped moved forward Modernistic thought.
Rhett Ferrin

1. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Eliot, T.S. 1917. Prufrock and Other Observations - 0 views

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      Rhett Ferrin on 28 Oct 10
       
      Etherised? I didn't know ether could be verbalised.
  • Though I have seen my head [grown slightly bald] brought in upon a platter, I am no prophe
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      Erin Hamson on 28 Oct 10
       
      John the Baptist
  • “I am Lazarus, come from the dead
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Oct 10
       
      Another religious reference
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  • The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,        15 The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening, Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains, Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys, Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap,        20 And seeing that it was a soft October night, Curled once about the house, and fell asleep.
    • Rhett Ferrin
      Rhett Ferrin on 28 Oct 10
       
      This is my favorite part of the whole poem. Eliot makes the smoke act like a cat. I can almost see it moving...
LeeAnne Lowry

The Remedist - 1 views

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digiciv economy Economics

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  • LeeAnne Lowry on 09 Nov 10
     
    This, in a nutshell, was Keynes's economics. His purpose, as he saw it, was not to destroy capitalism but to save it from itself.
Jeffrey Whitlock

How Did Economists Get It So Wrong? - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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      Jeffrey Whitlock on 09 Nov 10
       
      Paul Krugman is a well-known, unabashedly liberal, nobel prize winning economist who blogs for the New York Times. His blogs are interesting, that is for sure.
Jeffrey Whitlock

Mobile Phones in Developing Countries Jerry Hausman, MIT First ... - 0 views

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economics mobile phones

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  • Jeffrey Whitlock on 17 Nov 10
     
    If you get the chance, you should really look into this paper on how Mobile Phones have penetrates and affected developing nations.
Kristen Nicole Cardon

Cellphones - Third World and Developing Nations - Poverty - Technology - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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cellphones technology third developing world economics

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  • The premise of the work is simple — get to know your potential customers as well as possible before you make a product for them. But when those customers live, say, in a mud hut in Zambia or in a tin-roofed hutong dwelling in China, when you are trying — as Nokia and just about every one of its competitors is — to design a cellphone that will sell to essentially the only people left on earth who don’t yet have one, which is to say people who are illiterate, making $4 per day or less and have no easy access to electricity, the challenges are considerable.
  • Text messaging, or S.M.S. (short message service), turns out to be a particularly cost-effective way to connect with otherwise unreachable people privately and across great distances. Public health workers in South Africa now send text messages to tuberculosis patients with reminders to take their medication. In Kenya, people can use S.M.S. to ask anonymous questions about culturally taboo subjects like AIDS, breast cancer and sexually transmitted diseases, receiving prompt answers from health experts for no charge.
  • A cellphone in the hands of an Indian fisherman who uses it to grow his business — which presumably gives him more resources to feed, clothe, educate and safeguard his family — represents a textbook case of bottom-up economic development, a way of empowering individuals by encouraging entrepreneurship
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  • For this reason, the cellphone has become a darling of the microfinance movement
  • companies like Wizzit, in South Africa, and GCash, in the Philippines, have started programs that allow customers to use their phones to store cash credits transferred from another phone or p
  • urchased through a post office, phone-kiosk operator or other licensed operator
  • Interestingly, the recent post-election violence in Kenya provided a remarkable case study for the cellphone as an instrument of both war and peace.
  • Carrying a full-featured cellphone lessens your needs for other things, including a watch, an alarm clock, a camera, video camera, home stereo, television, computer or, for that matter, a newspaper. With the advent of mobile banking, cellphones have begun to replace wallets as well.
  • Kristen Nicole Cardon on 17 Nov 10
     
    Chipchase has a cool job :)
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