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A VC: Freemium and Freeconomics - 1 views

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shared by Kevin Watson on 27 Sep 10 - Cached
  • the Internet allows an entrrepreneur to enter a market with a free offering because the costs of doing so are not astronomical. And most entrpreneurs who take this approach will maintain an attractive free offering of their basic service forever. But that doesn't mean that everything they offer will be free. That's the whole point of freemium. Free gets you to a place where you can ask to get paid. But if you don't start with free on the Internet, most companies will never get paid.
    • Kevin Watson
      Kevin Watson on 27 Sep 10
       
      Not everything in the world will be free in a "free economy". "Free" is just a ploy to get you into a position where you will want to buy better things to work with.
  • Kevin Watson on 27 Sep 10
     
    Blog Article about Chris Anderson's book "Free" with some great insights on freemiums and what they will do to the economy.
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Descartes: Synopsis of the Meditations - 0 views

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shared by Sean Watson on 23 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • thus enabled easily to distinguish what pertains to itself, that is, to the intellectual nature, from what is to be referred to the body
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America - 0 views

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    • Andrew DeWitt
      Andrew DeWitt on 23 Sep 10
       
      Interesting how more than half the entry is on what America offers as far as minerals.  Today America seems to be in a deficit of materials and imports tons of goods.
  • Katherine Chipman on 22 Sep 10
     
    Encyclopedia entry on "America". It is fascinating to see what was known to the world about America 250 years ago.
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What is Epistemology?: The Theory of Knowledge - Is Knowledge Possible? - 0 views

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shared by Jeffrey Whitlock on 23 Sep 10 - No Cached
    • Jeffrey Whitlock
      Jeffrey Whitlock on 23 Sep 10
       
      An interesting blog post that discusses the paradoxes of foundationalism and empiricism. It is interesting to note that the author of this post does not even consider intuition/revelation to be a division of epistemology.
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Scholarly Communications @ Duke » What is Open Science? - 1 views

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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.
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We Are Visible - SIGN UP SPEAK OUT BE SEEN - helping you connect to the social world - 0 views

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shared by Bri Zabriskie on 26 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Bri Zabriskie on 26 Sep 10
     
    This site is a diving board for people who are homeless to begin using social media. It advocates the use of social media to give these people a voice in a community that is more apt to ignore them. People don't often listen to people who "look" homeless, but because with social media they can blog/tweet/status update from their hearts and be judged only on the basis of what they say without being preempted by something else, people listen. 
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Communist Manifesto (Chapter 2) - 0 views

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shared by Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10 - Cached
  • The Communists do not form a separate party opposed to the other working-class parties. They have no interests separate and apart from those of the proletariat as a whole. They do not set up any sectarian principles of their own, by which to shape and mould the proletarian movement.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      We are for you. You should join us. We will help you become equals, but not into a better position.
  • 1. In the national struggles of the proletarians of the different countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interests of the entire proletariat, independently of all nationality. 2. In the various stages of development which the struggle of the working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      working to unite the proletariat, which according to chapter one should equalise them with the others.
  • formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, conquest of political power by the proletariat.
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  • The theoretical conclusions of the Communists are in no way based on ideas or principles that have been invented, or discovered, by this or that would-be universal reformer.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      We don't recognise one world leader, or founder. Unlike capitalism (Smith) or democracy (Locke).
  • but the abolition of bourgeois property.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      mean to abolish their symbol of status, but not divide it to the masses. Say that it is commonly held together.
  • Abolition of private property
  • We Communists have been reproached with the desire of abolishing the right of personally acquiring property as the fruit of a man’s own labour, which property is alleged to be the groundwork of all personal freedom, activity and independence.
  • , that quantum of the means of subsistence which is absolutely requisite to keep the labourer in bare existence as a labourer.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      tells the labourer they ought to be getting more for their hard work in support of the system.
  • allowed to live only in so far as the interest of the ruling class requires it.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      allowed to live only in so far as the interest of the state requires it. A state in which you have no say, but they really do care about you.
  • By freedom is meant, under the present bourgeois conditions of production, free trade, free selling and buying.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      What other sort of freedom is there?
  • It has been objected that upon the abolition of private property, all work will cease, and universal laziness will overtake us.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      Isn't this what happened? Isn't this why they failed? They couldn't get man to work and produce enough products to support the country on virtue?
  • bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness;
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      They have to work to keep all the property they supposedly have.
  • Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      How are the children currently exploited?
  • But, you say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social. And your education! Is not that also social, and determined by the social conditions under which you educate, by the intervention direct or indirect, of society, by means of schools, &c.?
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      Secular learning might be taught in schools, but values, beliefs, toleration are all taught in the home. The only way to have successful society without these being taught in the home is to teach them in the schools. Which they currently are not.
  • Our bourgeois, not content with having wives and daughters of their proletarians at their disposal, not to speak of common prostitutes, take the greatest pleasure in seducing each other’s wives.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      They claim that this is universally true, but they forget the virtue of some people.
  • to freedom of commerce, to the world market,
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      capitalism has begun a reduction of national barriers.
  • The Communists are further reproached with desiring to abolish countries and nationality.
  • In proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another will also be put an end to, the exploitation of one nation by another will also be put an end to. In proportion as the antagonism between classes within the nation vanishes, the hostility of one nation to another will come to an end.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      Appealing to the 3rd world countries of the globe. trying to make communism a good thing.
  • The charges against Communism made from a religious, a philosophical and, generally, from an ideological standpoint, are not deserving of serious examination.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      We don't have anything to refute these claims, so we'll say they aren't important. Further we don't believe in religion because it causes differences, we can't refute something we believe in or think should exist.
  • The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      censoship
  • traditional property relations
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      People as defined by their property, in a physical sense. Defied by the reputation economy.
  • traditional ideas
  • to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      manipulate the people to steal from other people, and then all will be stolen from all people.
  • Nevertheless, in most advanced countries, the following will be pretty generally applicable.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      Capitalism with the State having a monopoly in every area within the country.
  • State
  • exclusive monopol
  • State.
  • State;
  • public
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Gates and Hewlett Foundations Focus on Online Learning - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Parker Woody on 11 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Parker Woody on 11 Oct 10
     
    An interesting article I found in the paper this morning about what is being done by these institutions to increase the use of technology in post secondary education. All content will be free.
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The Autoloom Revolutionizes Textile Manufacturing - History.com Video - 0 views

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shared by Kevin Watson on 14 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Kevin Watson on 14 Oct 10
     
    Great video that quickly explains Jacquard's Autoloom. Helps explain what the autoloom has to do with modern computing and the binary system.
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Comic | The Public Domain | - 2 views

www.thepublicdomain.org./comic copyright law legal rights censorship DMCA fair use commons creative public
shared by Andrew DeWitt on 13 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Andrew DeWitt on 13 Oct 10
     
    What we learned in class about copyright, put into comic book form.  Very easy to follow.
  • Bri Zabriskie on 14 Oct 10
     
    Wow, thanks for sharing. That's a great way to show how crazy copyright law is.
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Honors Fall 2010 Semester Courses - 0 views

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shared by Andrew DeWitt on 28 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • In this course we will view western civilization through the lens of the digital revolution, learning both what the past has to say about how we produce and share knowledge, and what our experiences with modern technology lead us to discover about the past.
  • Students will become fluent with the concepts and tools needed to be lifelong learners and active participants in a world where technological innovations change rapidly.
  • Andrew DeWitt on 28 Sep 10
     
    Guide to the courses offered in the BYU Honors program for Fall 2010
  • Andrew DeWitt on 28 Sep 10
     
    Check out our course description as shown on the Honors website.
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Life's Lessons Learned - 0 views

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shared by Brian Earley on 12 Oct 10 - No Cached
    • Brian Earley
      Brian Earley on 12 Oct 10
       
      Thoreau put his priorities on understanding himself.  We must make our priorities and work diligently for them.
  • I have known many great men and women.
  • they all have this in common: they work diligently and persistently towards achieving their goals
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  • “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,” wrote Henry David Thoreau, “and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”1     UAdd a Note In other words, never take your eye off the ball.
  • Brian Earley on 12 Oct 10
     
    I love this football story, but it emphasizes following simple principles in a complex system.  "Keep your eye on the . . ." We each decide what fills the blank.  Let's see our dreams and advance confidently in that direction.
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The Frontier In American History: Chapter X - 0 views

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shared by Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • As the American pioneer passed on in advance of this new tide of European immigration, he found lands increasingly limited
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      The close of the Frontier
  • . But the captains of industry by applying squatter doctrines to the evolution of American industrial society, have made the process so clear that he who runs may read.
  • it seemed not impossible that the outcome of free competition under individualism was to be monopoly of the most important natural resources and processes by a limited group of men whose vast fortunes were so invested in allied and dependent industries that they constituted the dominating force in the industrial life of the nation
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      Unregulated turn of events, the people were turned loose and made the best of it. What is wrong with this? They set the standards, and there is no room for competition.
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  • Mr. Harriman
  • mastering the economic forces of the nation
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      According to Adam Smith and the free market economy theory, the people are the best regulators. This sounds like socialism...
  • The Granger and the Populist were prophets of this reform movement. Mr. Bryan's Democracy, Mr. Debs' Socialism, and Mr. Roosevelt's Republicanism all had in common the emphasis upon the need of governmental regulation of industrial tendencies in the interest of the common man
  • "the State University and the public school system which it crowns would be the strongest evidence of its fitness which it could offer."
  • "general system of education ascending in regular gradations from township schools to a State University, wherein tuition shall be gratis and equally open to all," expresses the Middle Western conception born in the days of pioneer society and doubtless deeply influenced by Jeffersonian democracy.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      applying pioneer principles of avaliability and indivdualism to education and other opportunities to suceed in life as presently constituted.
  • propaganda to induce students to continue
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      Want everyone to go to college to become their best individual self.
  • all under the ideal of service to democracy rather than of individual advancement alone
  • The times call for educated leaders.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      And have yet to cease to call for experienced leaders. Which is why we are all sitting here reading this, to become educated leaders.
  • The test tube and the microscope are needed rather than ax and rifle in this new ideal of conquest
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      influence of technology on life
  • It is hardly too much to say that the best hope of intelligent and principled progress in economic and social legislation and administration lies in the increasing influence of American universities.
  • able to think for themselves, governed Dot by ignorance, by prejudice or by impulse, but by knowledge and reason and high-mindedness,
  • The learning of the few is despotism; the learning of the many is liberty.
  • At first pioneer democracy had scant respect for the expert.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      individualism
  • That they may perform their work they must be left free, as the pioneer was free, to explore new regions and to report what they find; for like the pioneers they have the ideal of investigation, they seek new horizons.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      application of pioneer ideals
  • Thus it is the function of the university to reveal to the individual the mystery and the glory of life as a whole
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      opening the mind to new ideas and ideals
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States claiming the most Presidents - The Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies - ... - 0 views

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  • Mike Lemon on 11 Oct 10
     
    After reading today's pieces on frontier ideology and what not, I thought it would be interesting to see where Presidents come from.
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"The Seven Deadly Heresies" by Bruce R. McConkie - 0 views

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  • Jake Corkin on 18 Oct 10
     
    here is a speech given by Bruce R. McConkie at BYU in 1980. i dont know if this is doctrine or what but it is pretty powerful. pay attention to heresy number 2.
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What Evolution Is Google Ebook - 0 views

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  • Madeline Rupard on 19 Oct 10
     
    Although this is limited in page views, it has a great introduction. I read this book for my colloquium Honors Biology class with Dr. Evans. Our whole them revolved around evolution and this book was very logical and concise. An excellent read.
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An Elevated Search Engine - 0 views

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shared by Madeline Rupard on 07 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Madeline Rupard on 07 Oct 10
     
    I'm not sure that this is how most people use tumblr, but it occured to me that searching for images through a blogging service where people are handpicking these images may be a better system. How many of us have looked something up through google images with sheer frustration at the lack of variety of images? Maybe I'm the only one. All I'm saying is that you should try opening up tumblr, plugging in a word like "mountains" or something and see what rolls out. Keep in mind that an extract of the blogger's text entry is displayed with the image, so it is not a legitimate "image search." But I really feel that this way of people deciding what images should be showing up is a great one. That is all. Also--Don't get too distracted by the huge sign up form in the middle of the page.
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What Does Learning Look Like? « Classroom as Microcosm - 0 views

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  • Mike Lemon on 07 Oct 10
     
    I believe this ties in well with our discussion of epistemology as well as our assignment right now.
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Plover: Freeing Stenography | Geek Feminism Blog - 0 views

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shared by Bri Zabriskie on 13 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • overlap between the stenographic and computer geek worlds is bafflingly small, considering how vital efficient text entry is to virtually every tech field
  • on-commercial applications for stenographic technology.
  • into any X window using a $45 off-the-shelf keyboard.
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  • Steno is the only text input system that’s functionally equivalent to conversational human speech.
  • wearable computing is unlikely to really take off until we get the head-mounted display issue worked out, and I don’t currently have any idea of how to make that happen on a practical level.
  • could be attached to thighs, belly, biceps, or wherever,
    • Bri Zabriskie
      Bri Zabriskie on 13 Oct 10
       
      initial reaction? weird, weird weird weird!
  • phonetic system in your muscle memory.
    • Bri Zabriskie
      Bri Zabriskie on 13 Oct 10
       
      which is why TypeWell which expands words when you type all the consonants is so much easier to remember. Plus you can program your own abbreviations. It' makes mroe sense for the general public. And how are Deaf/ HoH people supposed to learn the phonetic system of what to them is a foreign language? That seems a bit short sighted to me. 
  • hackathon
    • Bri Zabriskie
      Bri Zabriskie on 13 Oct 10
       
      a what?
  • Bri Zabriskie on 13 Oct 10
     
    Interview with someone who's created an open source stenograpic keyboard emulator for transcription services. I work in transcription so I think this is pretty stinking awesome.
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Europe: A.D. 1701 to 1800 - 0 views

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  • David Potter on 29 Sep 10
     
    This is from connexions and contains a great history of Europe and what was going on at the time. It also, a small history by country.
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