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Superb Creative Outdoor Ideas - 1 views

I have always wanted to build a patio to enjoy a lazy afternoon whilst looking out to my garden or where I can enjoy a cup of coffee during weekends as well as an area to receive and entertain gues...

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Greg Williams

LDS.org - Ensign Article - Focus and Priorities - 0 views

www.lds.org/...index.jsp

lds priorities information

shared by Greg Williams on 31 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • principle of accountability also applies to the spiritual resources conferred in the teachings we have been given and to the precious hours and days allotted to each of us during our time in mortality.
  • The significance of our increased discretionary time has been magnified many times by modern data-retrieval technology. For good or for evil, devices like the Internet and the compact disc have put at our fingertips an incredible inventory of information, insights, and images. Along with fast food, we have fast communications and fast facts. The effect of these resources on some of us seems to fulfill the prophet Daniel’s prophecy that in the last days “knowledge shall be increased” and “many shall run to and fro”
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  • “Do you think we need a bigger truck?”
  • our biggest need is a clearer focus on how we should value and use what we already have.
  • But to what purpose?
  • “knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word,” in which “wisdom” is “lost in knowledge” and “knowledge” is “lost in information”
  • We have thousands of times more available information than Thomas Jefferson or Abraham Lincoln. Yet which of us would think ourselves a thousand times more educated or more serviceable to our fellowmen than they?
  • I could never complete my assigned task within the available time unless I focused my research in the beginning and stopped that research soon enough to have time to analyze my findings and compose my conclusions.
  • we must begin with focus or we are likely to become like those in the well-known prophecy about people in the last days—“ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth” (2 Tim. 3:7).
  • But a bale of handouts can detract from our attempt to teach gospel principles with clarity and testimony.
  • Stacks of supplementary material can impoverish rather than enrich, because they can blur students’ focus on the assigned principles and draw them away from prayerfully seeking to apply those principles in their own lives.
  • Each of us should be careful that the current flood of information does not occupy our time so completely that we cannot focus on and hear and heed the still, small voice that is available to guide each of us with our own challenges today.
  • Our priorities determine what we seek in life.
  • “a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth”
  • Our priorities are most visible in how we use our time.
  • Good choices are especially important in our family life. For example, how do family members spend their free time together? Time together is necessary but not sufficient.
  • I believe many of us are overnourished on entertainment junk food and undernourished on the bread of life.
  • Greg Williams on 31 Oct 12
     
    Available information wisely used is far more valuable than multiplied information allowed to lie fallow.
Gideon Burton

Liveplasma - Discovery Engine / Amazon mashup - 1 views

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search mashup Amazon Visualization

shared by Gideon Burton on 01 Nov 12 - Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 01 Nov 12
     
    A visually rich application that combines the Amazon API to show the relationship between movies, bands, actors, etc. You can go straight from interacting to making purchases
Gideon Burton

19 Wildly Specific Subreddits - 1 views

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niche digital culture

shared by Gideon Burton on 18 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 18 Sep 13
     
    Example of highly specific niche communities
Bri Zabriskie

Higher education: iVy League | The Economist - 0 views

www.economist.com/...higher-education

higher education education digital

shared by Bri Zabriskie on 06 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Bri Zabriskie on 06 Apr 12
     
    Woah. 
Gideon Burton

Open Notebook Science (Limits to the detection of early warning signals) - 0 views

www.carlboettiger.info/...-of-early-warning-signals.html

ons open notebook science

shared by Gideon Burton on 22 May 12 - No Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 22 May 12
     
    Carl Boettiger's science paper, with links to his open notebook. Good example of this variety of science in the open.
Gideon Burton

The digital age an age of stagnation? - 2 views

www.wired.com/...future-shock

future shock wired

shared by Gideon Burton on 22 May 12 - No Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 22 May 12
     
    When Will This Low-Innovation Internet Era End?
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  • Sean Watson on 23 May 12
     
    Fascinating article. Thanks for sharing this, Dr. Burton. Do you think it's because internet technologies are mainly looked at as entertainment sources and not utilized as educational, academic, and research empowering tools? Is there something about the facility of information that hampers one's creativity, kind of like the cat and mouse game of dating that heightens one's mojo? Or could it possibly just be the result of a nation that has become exhausted with the competitive level necessary to transform this into what it may become? Or finally, do you think it's just a matter of time like the economic historian, Paul David said?
  • Gideon Burton on 25 May 12
     
    I do think it is a matter of time. People fall into ruts, even with revolutionary technologies. But enough is happening to keep this sphere innovating on the large scale even if it appears same-old in the short term. Nice to hear from you, Sean.
  • Sean Watson on 26 May 12
     
    Very interesting! Nice to hear from you too, Dr. Burton.
Gideon Burton

Digital Government report - May 2012 - 0 views

www.whitehouse.gov/...igital-government-strategy.pdf

whitehouse gov open government open data

shared by Gideon Burton on 23 May 12 - No Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 23 May 12
     
    The government's plan (as of May 2012) for government-as-platform via digital tools. 
Gideon Burton

Magazine - Is Google Making Us Stupid? - The Atlantic - 1 views

www.theatlantic.com/...6868

digital culture brain google

shared by Gideon Burton on 25 May 12 - No Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 25 May 12
     
    A classic article critical of how the internet affects us cognitively/
Gideon Burton

Creating New Business Models with Transactional APIs | Get Elastic Ecommerce Blog - 1 views

www.getelastic.com/models-with-transactional-apis

tiered api best buy

shared by Gideon Burton on 30 May 12 - No Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 30 May 12
     
    Content vs. Transactional APIs. As a non-programmer, I've come to learn just how critical it is to understand how APIs articulate services and people across the web. This article explains levels of API openness (perhaps a metaphor for non-commercial entities)
Gideon Burton

Watch | Everything Is a Remix - 1 views

www.everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series

remix

shared by Gideon Burton on 07 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 07 Jul 12
     
    A web series that is and is about remix (history and theory)
Gideon Burton

Op-Ed Contributor - How the Internet Got Its Rules - NYTimes.com - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...07crocker.html

protocols internet history RFC open standards

shared by Gideon Burton on 15 Aug 12 - Cached
  • We thought maybe we’d put together a few temporary, informal memos on network protocols, the rules by which computers exchange information
  • Our intent was only to encourage others to chime in, but I worried we might sound as though we were making official decisions or asserting authority.
  • Still fearful of sounding presumptuous, I labeled the note a “Request for Comments.”
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  • the R.F.C.’s themselves took root and flourished. They became the formal method of publishing Internet protocol standards
  • Less important than the content of those first documents was that they were available free of charge and anyone could write one. Instead of authority-based decision-making, we relied on a process we called “rough consensus and running code.”
  • It probably helped that in those days we avoided patents and other restrictions; without any financial incentive to control the protocols, it was much easier to reach agreement.
  • This was the ultimate in openness in technical design and that culture of open processes was essential in enabling the Internet to grow and evolve as spectacularly as it has
  • we always tried to design each new protocol to be both useful in its own right and a building block available to others. We did not think of protocols as finished products, and we deliberately exposed the internal architecture to make it easy for others to gain a foothold.
  • Gideon Burton on 15 Aug 12
     
    Stephen D. Crocker explains the early planning documents ("Requests for Comments") and how they exemplified and made possible the open nature of the web.
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