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Mikenna Pierotti

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  • Conservation International - Save a Mile http://www.conservation.org/act/g...
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      Nice design. I wonder how compliant it is? :P
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Eric Wardell

http://www.aaai.org/Papers/IJCAI/2007/IJCAI07-259.pdf - 0 views

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    This a brief look at combining some linguistic approaches to the content of wikipedia and asking questions about the shaping of the meaning of words.
Rachel Henderson

Pinterest Allows Websites to Block Pinning - 0 views

  • 99% of the pins on Pinterest are against the company’s own Terms of Service. Pinterest states that when users pin items, this indicates they are either the exclusive owners of the material or someone has granted them access to re-publish content.
  • One of the points of “Pinterest Etiquette” also stands to remind users to credit sources. Though it is not enforced, Pinterest says, “finding the original source is always preferable to a secondary source such as Google Image Search or a blog entry.”
  • Pinterest is moving towards correcting these flaws. Pinterest is currently following the Digital Millenmium Copyright Act, and will remove any image that someone claims is violating copyright laws.
Ben Bishop

Senate black box bill could see 2015 car models ship with data recorders -- Engadget - 0 views

  • Event Data Recorders in all automobiles produced from 2015 and on.
  • legislation still needs to pass the House of Representatives
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    Black boxes: not just for airplanes anymore... And these should actually be black.
Mikenna Pierotti

Can A Computer Grade Essays As Well As A Human? Maybe Even Better, Study Says : All Tec... - 0 views

  • Computers have been grading multiple-choice tests in schools for years. To the relief of English teachers everywhere, essays have been tougher to gauge. But look out, teachers: A new study finds that software designed to automatically read and grade essays can do as good a job as humans — maybe even better.
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    My last day teaching was Friday and already they're trying to make it so I can't come back :( Though, I've seen computer poetry and I'm not sold on the idea that computers can gauge quality...
Mikenna Pierotti

Memories of Friends Departed Endure on Facebook - 0 views

  • The question soon came up: What do we do about his Facebook profile? We had never really thought about this before in such a personal way. Obviously, we wanted to be able to model people's relationships on Facebook, but how do you deal with an interaction with someone who is no longer able to log on? When someone leaves us, they don't leave our memories or our social network. To reflect that reality, we created the idea of "memorialized" profiles as a place where people can save and share their memories of those who've passed.We understand how difficult it can be for people to be reminded of those who are no longer with them, which is why it's important when someone passes away that their friends or family contact Facebook to request that a profile be memorialized. For instance, just last week, we introduced new types of Suggestions that appear on the right-hand side of the home page and remind people to take actions with friends who need help on Facebook. By memorializing the account of someone who has passed away, people will no longer see that person appear in their Suggestions.
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    From facebook itself on the idea of memorializing.
Ben Bishop

B2G - MozillaWiki - 0 views

  • Mozilla believes that the web can displace proprietary, single-vendor stacks for application development
  • Boot to Gecko (B2G)
  • B2G/Architecture.
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  • The UI of B2G is called Gaia and is a collection of web apps. Some design concepts are posted here.
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    Mozilla is jumping into the ring with a mobile OS platform. Still in development, but this is the main page for info about the new platform
Eric Wardell

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/felt/privacybyproxy.pdf - 0 views

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    I thought parts of this article were interesting and relevant to the reading we're doing. O'Reilly discussed privacy to some extent in this first half, but, I thought it might be interesting to look at some policy about privacy protection more deeply.
Rachel Henderson

Why Digital Citizenship Must Be Taught in Schools - Scott Steinberg - Voices - AllThingsD - 0 views

  • Based on recent surveys, parents, kids and teachers largely agree that the Internet and technology should be better integrated into modern schools, college curriculums and university classrooms. According to the non-profit National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), however, schools are ill-prepared to teach online safety, security and digital citizenship. Case
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    An interesting article on educating parents, teachers, and kids on digital citizenship and safety - and integrating better digital practices and training in schools.
Bonnie Thibodeau

Dante's 'Inferno' Makes A Hell Of A Video Game : NPR - 0 views

  • In the video game version, he's doing it all for love. Beatrice, a love from the real Dante's life, becomes the fictional Dante's reason for going to hell — he must rescue her from the clutches of Satan.
  • These plot twists are a far cry from the poem, which is woven with philosophical discussions and monologues about life and death.
  • Italian poet was trying to reach out to ordinary folks with his writing.
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  • maybe those Dante scholars just don't play video games.
  • impressed by the renderings of the river Styx
  • But he doesn't think you can really compare a game to a poem.
  • it's not a narrative in the way that a movie or a text or a work of literature is
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    I don't have much experience with video games (I still rock out with Sonic on my Sega Genesis), but this could be a gateway game for me. I love the concept of adapting and crossing lines of genres and mediums, but it's interesting to note some of the dramatic differences and losses that must take place in translation. In this example there are some real game changers (I'm not sorry for the pun) involving plot and narrative. It's as if Dante has suddenly been inspired by Mario and must save the princess from the castle. I wonder what the equivalent of Yoshi would look like in the 7th ring of Hell...
Aaron Dawson

PRETTY COLORS - 2 views

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    Here's a blog documenting some not-so-obvious hex colors we might use for our sites.
Aaron Dawson

Wikipedia Didn't Kill Britannica - 0 views

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    "Print will survive. Books will survive even longer. It's print as a marker of prestige that's dying." Discusses Wikipedia as an extension of its predecessors' vanity and inherent print medium. 
Ben Bishop

xkcd: Umwelt - 0 views

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    You can take or leave the comic, depending on your tastes, but the idea of Umwelt and its applicability to our subject matter is fascinating.
Ben Bishop

xkcd: s/keyboard/leopard/ - 0 views

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    Just have your computer change one word, and look at all the beautiful chaos it creates...
Martina Helfferich

Ian Bogost - Gamification is Bullshit - 0 views

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    Bogost on gamification.
Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang

Will Apple suit mean cheaper e-books? - 0 views

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    This article looks at how lowering e-book prices now could lead to less competition and consequently the danger of prices rising in the future.
Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang

Wikipedia and the Republican primary: How the candidates' pages changed during the nomi... - 0 views

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    This is a module that traces the evolution of the Republican candidates' Wikipedia pages during the course of the primaries. Some of the yahoo user comments at the bottom of the page are quite entertaining too
Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang

Maryland To Ban Employers From Asking For Facebook, Twitter Passwords - 0 views

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    Lawmakers are finally putting a stop to this practice. Since we broached the topic of rhetorical strategies in making arguments in class, the argument one law expert makes is interesting: ""It lays down boundaries on what you can and can't do. It takes a gray area and makes a bright line ... The bill is a win for employees who want to protect their data security and their personal content passwords. But it's also a win for employers. ... Employers don't want to have access to this content. With access comes responsibility."
Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang

Nye: Cyber war and peace - Global Public Square - CNN.com Blogs - 0 views

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    Nye, who argues that "the diffusion of power away from governments is one of this century's great political shifts", looks at the implications of cyber wars on the security budget as well as international relations within the political context.
Eric Wardell

Policing Desire: Pornography, Aids and the Media - Simon Watney - Google Books - 0 views

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    This seems like a smart commentary on many of the issues we're seeing in the book and it helps modernize the Miller v California debate. It's again, largely focused on the idea of policing rights which focuses on freedoms of expression.
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