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Watch | Everything Is a Remix - 1 views

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    A web series that is and is about remix (history and theory)
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Creating New Business Models with Transactional APIs | Get Elastic Ecommerce Blog - 1 views

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    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)
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We're Creating a Culture of Distraction | Joe Kraus - 2 views

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    A potent and sobering call for reflection about our uses of tech and media. This has the merit of not being dismissive and of being realistic and helpful. Worth reading.
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The digital age an age of stagnation? - 2 views

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    When Will This Low-Innovation Internet Era End?
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    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?
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    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.
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    Very interesting! Nice to hear from you too, Dr. Burton.
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The Benefits of Distraction and Overstimulation -- New York Magazine - 1 views

  • What information consumes is rather obvious: It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
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Magazine - Is Google Making Us Stupid? - The Atlantic - 1 views

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    A classic article critical of how the internet affects us cognitively/
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Digital Government report - May 2012 - 0 views

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    The government's plan (as of May 2012) for government-as-platform via digital tools. 
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A federal judge learned to code - O'Reilly Radar - 1 views

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    A good case made for programming being part of cultural competence.
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Open Notebook Science (Limits to the detection of early warning signals) - 0 views

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    Carl Boettiger's science paper, with links to his open notebook. Good example of this variety of science in the open.
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My So-Called Blog - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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    Classic piece on blogging By EMILY NUSSBAUM
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Higher education: iVy League | The Economist - 0 views

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    Woah. 
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