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Gideon Burton

Piracy is Progressive Taxation, and Other Thoughts on the Evolution of Online Distribution - O'Reilly Media - 0 views

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piracy oreilly

shared by Gideon Burton on 12 Feb 12 - Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 12 Feb 12
     
    Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.
kristina cummins

Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy - 1 views

oregonstate.edu/...meditations.html

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  • kristina cummins on 19 Sep 10
     
    Rene Descartes is important to the Enlightenment Period. He is known as The Father of Philosophy. Meditations on First Philosophy is one of his greatest works.
Brandon McCloskey

BBC News - How good software makes us stupid - 2 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-11263559

technology communities

shared by Brandon McCloskey on 28 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Brandon McCloskey on 28 Sep 10
     
    Interesting article about how technology is making it easier for people to get by with less knowledge
  • Katherine Chipman on 28 Sep 10
     
    Great article! It brings up some interesting points. This is something that I have thought about a lot lately, because with a lot of technology options today we don't even have to remember information, we can simply save it and have easy access to it later...just not in our brains but on our phones, computers, etc. Also, a really great reference to some interesting research that has been done with taxi drivers.
Madeline Rupard

The best art is born from democracy - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...art-democracy-general-election

art democratic system freedom of speech

shared by Madeline Rupard on 01 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Madeline Rupard on 01 Oct 10
     
    An interesting article. I believe this is true. Think of the wide range of art in the world today. This also has a great deal to due with technology and the ability to share images, of course. Democracy itself has allowed art to blossom and allowed the visual expression to become quite a personal thing.
Andrew DeWitt

Social Media for Branding - 0 views

www.slideshare.net/...social-media-for-branding

social media facebook presentation blog

shared by Andrew DeWitt on 21 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Andrew DeWitt on 21 Sep 10
     
    Great presentation on how to make your mark in the digital world
  • Andrew DeWitt on 21 Sep 10
     
    Here is the comment I left on the SlideShare website: This is super important stuff, thank you for sharing. In our digital age, a person's ability to market themselves on the web is a form of social capital. The more people follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and the blogosphere, the greater influence we can have. It makes me think about what happens in the book, 'Ender's Game' by Orson Scott Card. In the story, Peter and Valentine publish a lot of political commentary under aliases which eventually have a huge impact on world politics. Our future world may be run by those who can best market themselves and let their voice be heard.
Erin Hamson

School (Architecture) - 0 views

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encyclopedia science

shared by Erin Hamson on 23 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • This text may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent distribution in print or electronically. Please contact the translator or spo-help@umich.edu for more information.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 23 Sep 10
       
      The article is on one school of architecture, not likly to be found in a modern encyclopedia.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 23 Sep 10
       
      Notice the avaliability of this source. Doesn't flow with open science, or the open knowledge descirbed therein.
  • Erin Hamson on 23 Sep 10
     
    This is an article from the Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert. I clicked on it interested in how architecture was seen and got a quick history lesson!
Kevin Watson

Scholarly Communications @ Duke » What is Open Science? - 1 views

library.duke.edu/...what-is-open-science

digiciv duke communications scholarly open science

shared by Kevin Watson on 21 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • The spirit of these principles is that there should be transparency to the methods, observations, data collection, data access, communication, collaboration and research tools.  Instead of limiting the sharing of the practice of science to publication of selected results, the entire scientific process should be exposed to potential users, collaborators and extenders of the work.
  • Kevin Watson on 21 Sep 10
     
    Good short blog on some applications of using Open Science.
Jeffrey Whitlock

BYU - Marriott School - Economic Self-Reliance - What is Microfranchising? - 0 views

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    • Jeffrey Whitlock
      Jeffrey Whitlock on 05 Oct 10
       
      We are blessed to be at a school that is heavily involved in social entrepreneurship. BYU, in many ways, is one of the leading schools of thought in the microfinance realm. Consider this new innovative model which was largely developed at BYU: microfranchising
Parker Woody

Communist Manifesto (Chapter 3) - 0 views

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    • Kristi Koerner
      Kristi Koerner on 04 Oct 10
       
      The conflict with Christianity is interesting.
  • disastrous effects of machinery and division of labour
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      are these laid in contrast to the benefits?
  • It proclaimed the German nation to be the model nation
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      city upon a hill
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  • The Socialistic bourgeois want all the advantages of modern social conditions without the struggles and dangers necessarily resulting therefrom. They desire the existing state of society, minus its revolutionary and disintegrating elements. They wish for a bourgeoisie without a proletariat.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      want everyone to be like them
  • It is summed up in the phrase: the bourgeois is a bourgeois — for the benefit of the working class
  • These proposals, therefore, are of a purely Utopian character.
  • the concentration of capital and land in a few hands; overproduction and crises; it pointed out the inevitable ruin of the petty bourgeois and peasant, the misery of the proletariat, the anarchy in production, the crying inequalities in the distribution of wealth, the industrial war of extermination between nations, the dissolution of old moral bonds, of the old family relations, of the old nationalities.
    • Parker Woody
      Parker Woody on 05 Oct 10
       
      Interesting how they appeal to the family and the loss of morals
Brian Earley

BYU IT Training - Learn how to... - 0 views

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digiciv

shared by Brian Earley on 30 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Brian Earley on 30 Sep 10
     
    This is the BYU training site for all those programs that everyone needs to be able to use.
  • Trevor Cox on 30 Sep 10
     
    This is great! Here's the link to register https://it.byu.edu/training/ click on "register for a class."
Megan Stern

Free Classical Music For Everyone? Why That's Just Plain Old-Fashioned Communism! - 0 views

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Communism digiciv music classical web2.0 capitalism economy

shared by Megan Stern on 05 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Megan Stern on 05 Oct 10
     
    Do you believe the new digital economy is leading to worldwide Communism?
  • Madeline Rupard on 06 Oct 10
     
    This was probably a rhetorical question, but I don't. I believe that our economy will adjust accordingly. Just because the media industry is changing dramatically, doesn't mean people are giving away free food, free houses, free services. I feel this is just an adaptation, not a complete economical revolution.
Andrew DeWitt

Learning in the Light of Faith - 0 views

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byu devotional learning light faith ross spencer future shock physics research science

shared by Andrew DeWitt on 19 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • When I was just out of graduate school, I attended my first meeting of the American Physical Society in New York City. A highlight was a special event arranged by the conference organizers: the great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov had been invited to speak to us.
  • Hour after hour he wrote down the stories he found in books in the university library about people protesting the invention of things like machines to spin thread and to weave cloth, steam-powered trains, automobiles, airplanes, etc. All of these advances were perceived by the general public either to be physically dangerous or to be a threat to the livelihoods of workers in trades that were about to be destroyed by these advances.
  • when he started to write science fiction, he remembered all of this work he had done. So while his fellow writers were all rhapsodizing about the thrill of rockets and space travel (long before such things were possible), he wrote a story about how the local populace showed up at the launch site with torches and pitchforks in opposition to space travel. Years later, when rockets and travel outside of the earth’s atmosphere became possible, there were protests, and many of Mr. Asimov’s colleagues were astounded that he had predicted so far in advance that this would occur.
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  • “Why,” Mr. Asimov then asked us, “among all of these talented and visionary writers, was I the only one who was able to predict that this resistance to change would occur?” He let us think about the question for an uncomfortably silent minute, then leaned into the microphone and said in an intense voice that I still vividly remember: “It’s because people are stupid!”
  • The lesson I take from my memory of this experience is that the proper attitude to have when confronted with the vast complexity both of the universe and of the ideas and activities of the people who live on this small planet orbiting an ordinary star far away from the center of things in our galaxy is profound humility.
    • Andrew DeWitt
      Andrew DeWitt on 19 Oct 10
       
      This is how we ought to deal with future shock: "humility"
  • Andrew DeWitt on 19 Oct 10
     
    Great Devotional Talk by Ross Spencer.  Includes a great reference to "Future Shock".
Katherine Chipman

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

www.computerhistory.org/...engines

babbage

shared by Katherine Chipman on 14 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Difference engines are strictly calculators. They crunch numbers the only way they know how - by repeated addition according to the method of finite differences. They cannot be used for general arithmetical calculation. The Analytical Engine is much more than a calculator and marks the progression from the mechanized arithmetic of calculation to fully-fledged general-purpose computation.
  • Physical Legacy Aside from a few partially complete mechanical assemblies and test models of small working sections, none of Babbage's designs was physically realized in its entirety in his lifetime. The major assembly he did complete was one-seventh of Difference Engine No. 1, a demonstration piece consisting of about 2,000 parts assembled in 1832. This works impeccably to this day and is the first successful automatic calculating device to embody mathematical rule in mechanism. A small experimental piece of the Analytical Engine was under construction at the time of Babbage's death in 1871. Many of the small experimental assemblies survived, as does a comprehensive archive of his drawings and notebooks. The designs for Babbage's vast mechanical computing engines rank as one of the startling intellectual achievements of the 19th century. It is only in recent decades that his work has been studied in detail and that the extent of what he accomplished becomes increasingly evident.
  • Katherine Chipman on 14 Oct 10
     
    Great explanation of the difference between difference engines and analytical engines.
Madeline Rupard

"All the trees of the field shall clap their hands": My new photography blog/ visual essay - 3 views

treesclaptheirhands.tumblr.com

digiciv blog art photography tumblr visual truth mormon communication

shared by Madeline Rupard on 25 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Madeline Rupard on 25 Oct 10
     
    A visual essay of some of my own photography that I feel/hope conveys spiritual truth AND artistic truth. See my blog post at http://tamesequels.blogspot.com for my discussion about these two kinds of truths. All of these pieces are taken with a low resolution camera phone to try and convey that artistic beauty can be found in this world with the humblest means and mediums. This is one of my new art projects. I have always had an interest in photography, so this has been a good chance for me to experiment. I will try to post a photo on this site every day.
  • Mike Lemon on 25 Oct 10
     
    I like what you are doing, especially the wires photograph. I believe it ties in nicely to the sublime we talked about during Romanticism, that there is a glimpse of God in nature.
Katherine Chipman

Newsroom - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - 0 views

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lds technology

shared by Katherine Chipman on 21 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Today we have a modern equivalent of the printing press in the Internet and all that it means. The Internet allows everyone to be a publisher, to have their voice heard,
  • HomeThe Newsroom BlogMultimediaPhotosVideoAudio
  • New Media is facilitating a world-wide conversation on almost every subject including religion, and nearly everyone can participate. This modern equivalent of the printing press is not reserved only for the elite.
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  • may I ask that you join the conversation by participating on the Internet, particularly the New Media, to share the gospel and to explain in simple, clear terms the message of the Restoration
  • we have a major responsibility as Latter-day Saints to define ourselves, instead of letting others define us
  • Every disciple of Christ will be most effective, and do the most good by adopting a demeanor worthy of a follower of the Savior of the world.
  • This is your world, the world of the future, with inventions undreamed of that will come in your lifetime as they have in mine. How will you use these marvelous inventions? More to the point, how will you use them to further the work of the Lord?
  • The printing press and other media have allowed us to take the Lord’s message to almost every corner of the earth.
  • Make sure that the choices you make in the use of new media are choices that expand your mind, increase your opportunities, and feed your soul.
Jeffrey Whitlock

No definitive LDS stance on evolution, study finds | Deseret News - 0 views

www.deseretnews.com/...-on-evolution-study-finds.html

shared by Jeffrey Whitlock on 18 Oct 10 - No Cached
    • Jeffrey Whitlock
      Jeffrey Whitlock on 18 Oct 10
       
      This is a fascinating article on the Church's view on evolution. It is interesting that in spite of the Church's official position, many people throughout the Church seem to teach anti-evolution "doctrine" as if it was the Church's official stance.
    • Jake Corkin
      Jake Corkin on 18 Oct 10
       
      have you ever read the "origin of man" by the First presidency in 1909? it pretty much gives a definitive stance on the subject. it is pretty interesting stuff.
Jake Corkin

Argument against Keynesian economics - 0 views

www.politicalwag.com/...ynesian-economics-is-a-failure

economics keynes

shared by Jake Corkin on 08 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Jake Corkin on 08 Nov 10
     
    This is a blog post on a political blog called PoliticalWag. It argues against Keynesian Economics.
Megan Stern

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Project Gutenberg - 0 views

www.gutenberg.org/2554

digiciv Modernism Dostoyevsky

shared by Megan Stern on 27 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Megan Stern on 27 Oct 10
     
    One of my favorite books ever. Raskolnikov kills two women to prove that he is one of the "supermen" Nietzche talks about as being able to rise above the moral structure of God, which, according to Nietzsche, is now dead. "is not the greatness of this deed too great for us?"
Andrew DeWitt

The Nature of the Firm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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digiciv economy wikipedia firm

shared by Andrew DeWitt on 08 Nov 10 - Cached
  • Coase's analysis proceeds by considering the conditions under which it makes sense for an entrepreneur to seek hired help instead of contracting out for some particular task
  • because the market is "efficient" (that is, those who are best at providing each good or service most cheaply are already doing so), it should always be cheaper to contract out than to hire
  • Coase noted, however, that there are a number of transaction costs to using the market
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  • This suggests that firms will arise when they can arrange to produce what they need internally and somehow avoid these costs.
  • There is a natural limit to what can be produced internally, however.
Kevin Watson

Inside Chernobyl - National Geographic Magazine - 0 views

ngm.nationalgeographic.com/...1

digiciv national chernobyl inside geographic nuclear disaster

shared by Kevin Watson on 11 Nov 10 - No Cached
    • Kevin Watson
      Kevin Watson on 11 Nov 10
       
      This definitely makes you think about whether or not it is worth having nuclear power plants. Or maybe there could be a better way to generate electricity.
  • Kevin Watson on 11 Nov 10
     
    If you would like to read a little more about the Chernobyl disaster, here is a great article in National Geographic.
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