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The intersection of science and communications, with some improv. Actor Alan Alda wants to help train scientists to communicate to a wider audience.

No, "we" isn't necessarily such a communal word after all. It often comes off as presumptive and exclusionary, and can be seen as one group speaking-out of turn-for others.

Sure, apps are like boxes of crayons -- one for just about everything -- but at least the creators of this one takes a slightly different spin on their main targets. NJM

Confused? Keep reading. We'll get to that. Black Twitter is part cultural force, cudgel, entertainment and refuge. It is its own society within Twitter, replete with inside jokes, slang and rules, centered on the interests of young blacks online - almost a quarter of all black Internet users are on Twitter.

The best social media guides often come directly from the websites, especially for strategic communications endeavors.

I wanted to share this great documentary with everyone. I watched it right before deciding to apply for the EMAC program and I honestly credit it with helping me make my decision to apply. I hope everyone can find something to take away from it.

BiblioTech, one of the country's first all-digital public libraries, aims to reach more readers by hosting their entire collection on the cloud. Patrons may choose from 18,000 digital titles and can check out Kindles, too. I wonder if this is what all libraries will start to look like. I also love that they have an "iPad Bar" haha

Quote from story... "The content is what makes the medium social, not the other way around. An empty coffee shop is not good strategy." NJM

"Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Just like Wikipedia, you can contribute new information or corrections to the catalog. You can browse by subject, author or lists members have created. If you love books, why not help build a library?" Thought this was an interesting site, worth sharing! I love books and reading and I'm always trying to find ways to keep track of my own library and access others.

Texting can make you drive like a drunk. Now a new study shows that texting can also make you walk like a robot. Researchers found that healthy people who read or send texts while hoofing it show subtle but potentially hazardous changes to their gait.

It seems silly, but I wager that had she been distracted by looking through her bag or some other reason, we would be more sympathetic. My guess would be that the reason of the distraction didn't make the city any less negligent.

Here's an app that allows people to view their path ahead while on their phones. It activates your camera and allows you too see both your screen and the ground. The iPhone version only lets you text and tweet while the android app works for any app in universal mode. People would probably still walk like robots, but maybe they wouldn't trip or step on anything. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.incorporateapps.walktext&hl=en https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/type-n-walk/id331043123?mt=8

David Golumbia provides a voice to counter the hype of the sharing economy. My favorite quote, "Sharing" can be seen as a form of resistance to the capitalist economy. But the "sharing economy" becomes a way of capitalizing on that resistance" (par 13)

Social media is the world many of us live in....and die. NJM

I have been fascinated with Complexity Theory and Complex Systems Science for some time now. The chemist Ilya Prigogine , a Nobel Laureate, is credited with pioneering research into this discipline and in 1971, based on his research, he applied his theories to vehicular traffic flow in his book Kinetic Theory of Vehicular Traffic .

This article relates directly to some of the readings we had this week about infrastructure, protocol, and net neutrality. North Korea has strict control over what its citizens can access, but it does allow the tiniest trickle of real internet into the country... will that inevitably lead to raising citizens' awareness? "Still, some experts believe that as more North Koreans become familiar with the benefits of going online - a trend that would seem inevitable if North Korea is to keep afloat in the information age - it will become increasingly difficult for the ruling regime to keep the IT dam from bursting."

That's the old way, that's the old mantra: one machine, one human, one mouse, one screen. Well, that doesn't really cut it anymore. - John Underkoffler Synopsis It's 10 years since Minority Report hit our screens.

Wow even SnapChat has technical difficulties. :)