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liza cainz

HP Support for Printers - 1 views

Paper works is one of the many things I have to deal with as a secretary for a top executive in the company I am working for Vancouver. More often than not, printer glitches are one of the major pr...

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started by liza cainz on 10 Dec 10 no follow-up yet
Bruce Vigneault

More Readers Are Picking Up Electronic Books - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...24kindle.html

shared by Bruce Vigneault on 25 Dec 08 - Cached
  • which were often hard to use and offered few popular items to read. But this year, in part because of the popularity of Amazon.com’s wireless Kindle device, the e-book has started to take hold.
    • Bruce Vigneault
      Bruce Vigneault on 25 Dec 08
       
      Might this be the future for education?
Bruce Vigneault

Is Google Making Us Stupid? - The Atlantic (July/August 2008) - 0 views

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shared by Bruce Vigneault on 11 Jun 08 - Cached
  • It is clear that users are not reading online in the traditional sense; indeed there are signs that new forms of “reading” are emerging as users “power browse” horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins. It almost seems that they go online to avoid reading in the traditional sense.
    • Bill Guinee
      Bill Guinee on 18 Apr 09
       
      I have a stack of books I should be reading right now, but I am cruizing the internet instead.
  • Wolf worries that the style of reading promoted by the Net, a style that puts “efficiency” and “immediacy” above all else, may be weakening our capacity for the kind of deep reading that emerged when an earlier technology, the printing press, made long and complex works of prose commonplace. When we read online, she says, we tend to become “mere decoders of information.” Our ability to interpret text, to make the rich mental connections that form when we read deeply and without distraction, remains largely disengaged.
  • As the media theorist Marshall McLuhan pointed out in the 1960s, media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation.
    • Bruce Vigneault
      Bruce Vigneault on 21 Mar 09
       
      Maybe we are learning a new mental skill and as a choice are letting go of a skill that we no longer find useful?
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  • The more they use the Web, the more they have to fight to stay focused on long pieces of writing.
  • He speculates on the answer: “What if I do all my reading on the web not so much because the way I read has changed, i.e. I’m just seeking convenience, but because the way I THINK has changed?”
    • Bruce Vigneault
      Bruce Vigneault on 21 Mar 09
       
      I'm not sure that this is necessarily a 'bad thing'?
  • I’ve lost the ability to do that
  • “power browse” horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins.
  • “We are how we read.
  • mere decoders of information
  • Reading, explains Wolf, is not an instinctive skill for human beings.
  • our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts.
  • The last thing these companies want is to encourage leisurely reading or slow, concentrated thought. It’s in their economic interest to drive us to distraction.
    • Bruce Vigneault
      Bruce Vigneault on 21 Mar 09
       
      It is scary to beleive that this organic change to our brain is being driven by commercialism!
  • In Plato’s Phaedrus, Socrates bemoaned the development of writing. He feared that, as people came to rely on the written word as a substitute for the knowledge they used to carry inside their heads, they would, in the words of one of the dialogue’s characters, “cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful.” And because they would be able to “receive a quantity of information without proper instruction,” they would “be thought very knowledgeable when they are for the most part quite ignorant.” They would be “filled with the conceit of wisdom instead of real wisdom.”
    • Bruce Vigneault
      Bruce Vigneault on 21 Mar 09
       
      Ahhh... so with each new step in technology this same 'scare' is felt by the elite ;)
  • The Italian humanist Hieronimo Squarciafico worried that the easy availability of books would lead to intellectual laziness, making men “less studious” and weakening their minds.
  • I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense and “cathedral-like” structure of the highly educated and articulate personality—a man or woman who carried inside themselves a personally constructed and unique version of the entire heritage of the West. [But now] I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the “instantly available.
  • Thieme Hennis on 11 Jun 08
     
    What the Internet is doing to our brains by Nicholas Carr Is Google Making Us Stupid?
edtechtalk

Wal-Mart launches digital movie downloads - 0 views

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Jennifer Maddrell

$100 Million Payday For Feedburner - This Deal Is Confirmed - 0 views

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  • Rumors about Google acquiring RSS management company Feedburner from last week, started by ex-TechCrunch UK editor Sam Sethi, are accurate and are now confirmed according to a source close to the deal.
  • Jennifer Maddrell on 23 May 07
     
    the empire grows ...
Jennifer Maddrell

Apple, others draw legal threat over media players | CNET News.com - 0 views

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shared by Jennifer Maddrell on 11 May 07 - Cached
  • RealNetworks spokesman Matt Graves said he hadn't yet seen the letter, but it appeared to be a ploy by a "desperate company" to get its product licensed. "That's a rather novel approach to business development," he said in an e-mail interview Friday. Representatives from Apple, Microsoft, Adobe and MRT did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
    • Jennifer Maddrell
      Jennifer Maddrell on 11 May 07
       
      Ha!
  • DMCA refers to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a controversial 1998 law that generally makes it illegal to circumvent technological protection measures that control access to copyrighted works.
Jennifer Maddrell

Last.fm Launches Video - Aims To Be The MTV Of Web 2.0 Age - 0 views

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shared by Jennifer Maddrell on 09 May 07 - Cached
  • Online radio station Last.fm is adding a video section to its site this week, enabling users to create their own personalised video channels - similar to how users can already create radio stations based on their music tastes. Last.fm is partnering with major and independent labels for this. The company also claims that the quality of videos on its site "will be significantly higher than that of YouTube", with audio encoded at 128kbps compared to YouTube’s 64kbps.
edtechtalk

TalkShoe - About the TalkShoe company that creates Talkcasts - 0 views

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Web 2.0 Company Name Generator - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 03 Oct 13
     
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Dimdim: The world's free web conferencing company - Home - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 13 Sep 13
     
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John Onwuegbu

Questechie - Trends In Internet Technology - 0 views

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    • John Onwuegbu
      John Onwuegbu on 04 Apr 09
       
      Twitter ready to launch Search Engine??? Read More: http://questechie.blogspot.com/2009/04/twitter-ready-to-launch-search-biz.html
  • According to the Twitter's official blog post on wednesday, the company is getting ready to launch a search engine that would make it possible for users to search for keywords and phrases being used by the people they follow on the popular messaging site.
  • Although IE8's security promise has already been marred to an extent -- it was hacked the day before its official rollout -- it may escape the potentially serious fallout from using JavaScript. IE8 was cracked at the 10th annual CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, Canada, Wednesday by a hacker who identified himself only as "Nils." To be fair, the first browser to go down at the hacking contest at CanSecWest was Apple's Safari.
  • John Onwuegbu on 04 Apr 09
     
    Trends in internet technology, news articles and reviews
Allison Burrell

Compiled List of The Top Online Presentation Tools and Apps Today | Lakeshore Branding ... - 14 views

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Maria Babae

Fast and Reliable Computer Help and Support - 2 views

My hotel has been running within the family business for 122 years. From time to time we update our systems and units through computer help services offered online. There was a time in Febuary 2000...

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started by Maria Babae on 11 Aug 11 no follow-up yet
Certificate IV Assessment

Qualified Trainers with Certificate IV in Training and Assessment - 1 views

With a talent for helping others and teaching, becoming a trainer is the perfect career progression for me. To train myself and become recognised in my chosen field, I enrolled to get a Certificate...

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started by Certificate IV Assessment on 25 Aug 11 no follow-up yet
Stacey Lang

Qualified Trainers with Certificate IV in Training and Assessment - 1 views

With a talent for helping others and teaching, becoming a trainer is the perfect career progression for me. To train myself and become recognised in my chosen field, I enrolled to get a Certificate...

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started by Stacey Lang on 27 Sep 11 no follow-up yet
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