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Cool Cat Teacher Blog: The New Design for the Classroom that ROCKS MY WORLD!!! - 0 views

  • What you see are individual, microsoft surface enabled BOARDS in the upright position and individual, Microsoft Surface enabled DESKS in the background.
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      Microsoft Surface is the next generation of computing. WE will no longer have computers but every surface around us will be intelligent.
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    Microsoft Surface is going to become part of devices around us. This is an important technology for where things are going to be moving are important to understand as you predict the future of technology.
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    People inventing and predicting in their videos should read about microsoft surface.
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Technology Review: Special Reports: Web 3.0 - 0 views

  • Semantic Web, which seeks to give computers the ability--the seeming intelligence--to understand content on the World Wide Web.
  • Today's primitive prototypes show that a more intelligent Internet is still a long way off.
  • Chatterbots from MyCyberTwin can respond to questions about you when you're not online.
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    Web 3 -- what is it? What will it look like?
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    Web 3.0 and how the web is evolving is a part of current discussion. Some say Web 3D is more likely with Second Life like environments merging with the Semantic web. This is a great site for those working on inventing and predicting what will happen.
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    Learn about Web 3.0 and what is coming.
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Global Politics | Essential Guide | BBC World Service - 0 views

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    Digital Underclass & great information from the BBC.
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    Fascinating listens from the BBC - their essential guide to the 21st century. A fascinating term that I cannot recall hearing is the "digital underclass" -- People who have "no chance of every going online." They are predicting that these people will be responsible for the next shift in the balance of power in the new century.
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Christian Science Paper to End Daily Print Edition - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    A signficant development since the advent of the world wide web. May offer an opportunity to predict.
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    After a century of continuous publication, The Christian Science Monitor will abandon its weekday print edition and appear online only, its publisher announced Tuesday. The cost-cutting measure makes The Monitor the first national newspaper to largely give up on print.
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Beginning to see the light - Oz focus - 0 views

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    This article predicts what may happen in the future based on current experiments between universities. Gives some nice history. Some good material for a wiki.
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    Smarr is one of the people who can legitimately claim the benefit of foresight. He is one of the internet's architects, one of the academics who connected their universities using slow, slow dial-up modem links, just to see what would happen next. He has seen this communication highway grow, and is still at the forefront of research as he explores what he calls "ultra-broadband", asking the question: what will cyberspace look like when it is 10,000 times its current speed?
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From Tim Berners-Lee to … Muriel? « HeyJude - 0 views

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    Australian article give some background on the web browser and prediction of what may evolve in the near future.
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    Twenty years ago today, Tim Berners-Lee wrote his original proposal for a better kind of linked information system.
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UK Team is focusing on online comment defamation - 0 views

  • a new team to track down people who make anonymous comments about companies online.
  • a new team to track down people who make anonymous comments about companies online.
  • a rising problem with people making anonymous statements that defamed companies, and people sharing confidential information online.
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  • a new team to track down people who make anonymous comments about companies online.
  • the numbers of disgruntled employees looking to get their own back on employers or former employers was also on the rise.
  • a story from six years earlier about United Airlines going bankrupt was voted up on a newspaper website. This was later picked up by Google News and eventually the Bloomberg news wire, which published it automatically as if it were a news story.
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      Could this be considered the new "insider trading" - hmmm. Surely there are issues if it is done maliciously but isn't there a line here?
  • rogue employees
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      Uhm, how about rogue companies?
  • trying to get Internet Service Providers to give out details of customers who had made comments online
  • shares in American firm United Airlines fell by 99 per cent in just 15 minutes after an outdated story that the firm had filed for bankruptcy was forced back onto the headlines.
  • the new team would ensure there was “nowhere to hide in cyberspace”.
  • could stifle free speech, and the ability of people to act as whistle-blowers to expose actions by their employers.
  • an outlet for anonymous reporting.
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      Is it possible to have accountability AND anonymity? Must these be mutually exclusive?
  • This is known as the ‘Streisand effect’ online, after a case where singer Barbara Streisand tried to suppress photos of her California beachside home from a publicly-available archive of photos taken to document coastal erosion.
  • Nightjack. This was the guy who was blogging on the front line about police work and he was forced to stop this story because he was unmasked by The Times
  • If you allow a lot of anonymous debate by people who are not regulated, you can get it descending to the common denominator. If you allow people to register with an identity, even if it’s not their real one, you bring the level of debate up.”
  • There was one case a couple of years ago that we just keep referring back to where a defamatory comment was made and it wasn’t taken down for a period of time. Because of that the host of the website was held to be liable.”
  • the ‘Wild West’ era of the internet was in some ways coming to an end, with firms starting to crack down
  • I think companies are still grappling with whether it’s better to take it on the chin and hope people don’t see the comments, or on the other hand cracking down on everything that’s particularly damaging that’s said online. Maybe this is set to change.”
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    While this article starts out about a lawfirm in Birmingham UK that is going to "track down people who make anonymous comments about companies online" it becomes an amazingly poignant article on the very nature of the Internet today and the push pull between anonymous commenting and accountability of the commenter. Push pull between free speech and online identity and brand protection. One person in this article claims that this sort of thing is the sign that the "wild west" of the INternet is coming to an end. Oh dear, I hope someone invents a new one if somehow anonymous commenters are now going to risk such! Also love the article's discussion of the Streisand effect wherein Barbara protested the sharing of some photos of her eroding beachfront which caused a stir and more people looking at the photos than if she had left it alone. This article is going to be a must read for Flat Classroom students and would be great for college-level discussions as well.
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    Important article that would make a great video story for someone predicting how the Internet is changing - with commenters being hunted down by companies!
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The Changing Face of Information Technology | Articles | ITBusinessEdge.com - 0 views

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    Eight Trends Driving the Future of Information Technology A new report predicts dramatic changes to the face of enterprise computing. To say that change is coming to the enterprise is like saying the sun will rise in the east tomorrow.
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SAT Reforms May Have Negative Impact on Students, Counselors Say - 2 views

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    This article is about how students may have to upload pictures of themselves when signing up for the SAT and ACT
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Ethics of Linking: Jay Rosen - YouTube - 0 views

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    http://youtu.be/RIMB9Kx18hw Why you should hyperlink from your wiki pages.....
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Job Tracking Software Saves Label Fabricator 20 Hours a Week and Improves Productivity ... - 1 views

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    This is an article I found on how workflow software has decreased the amount of hours employees have to work.
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Globalization - 1 views

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    Tourism is one of the worlds largest industries and globalisation is making foreign leisure more possible than ever. Globalisation may have other tolls with tourism and we need to find a route to sustainability in the global toruism market.
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Amazon Kindle Fire could Burn Up iPad's Lead | ITProPortal.com - 0 views

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    This survey shows that iPad with the $199 price tag is a 'serious" contender for the ipad. I had someone ask me about Kindle fire vs. iPad. Definitely people are comparing it.  Many people are definitely comparing the ipad to the Kindle fire although the Kindle fire has two issues that don't have anything to do with Amazon: the droid OS and the Droid app store. The droid OS still lacks in touch responsiveness from the reviews I read. The Droid app store is a lot more open but also includes more "junk" and even some privacy and virus laden things from what I hear. Does this matter to the average person who just wants a smaller device and a $199 price tag - we'll see. Tablets are definitely in our future. You can see the redesign of women's pocketbooks reflecting this!
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Envisioning the future of education | Envisioning Technology - 0 views

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    "Envisioning the future of education technology"
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Beyond the PC - 1 views

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    This article discusses the increasingly important role of mobile technology in out society, and how this older technologies such as the PC.
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Watch TV Shows & Movies Online - Clicker.com - 1 views

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    New "social television" - you rate your shows, watch them, "check in" on the show. This is going to be very interesting.
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    "social television" Definitely worth "watching" This could make for a very interesting movie in the Flat Classroom project.
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Outsourcing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • Outsourcing or sub-servicing often refers to the process of contracting to a third-party.
  • Cost savings — The lowering of the overall cost of the service to the business. This will involve reducing the scope, defining quality levels, re-pricing, re-negotiation, and cost re-structuring. Access to lower cost economies through offshoring called "labor arbitrage" generated by the wage gap between industrialized and developing nations.[10] Focus on Core Business — Resources (for example investment, people, infrastructure) are focused on developing the core business. For example often organizations outsource their IT support to specialised IT services companies. Cost restructuring — Operating leverage is a measure that compares fixed costs to variable costs. Outsourcing changes the balance of this ratio by offering a move from fixed to variable cost and also by making variable costs more predictable. Improve quality — Achieve a steep change in quality through contracting out the service with a new service level agreement. Knowledge — Access to intellectual property and wider experience and knowledge.[11] Contract — Services will be provided to a legally binding contract with financial penalties and legal redress. This is not the case with internal services.[12] Operational expertise — Access to operational best practice that would be too difficult or time consuming to develop in-house. Access to talent — Access to a larger talent pool and a sustainable source of skills, in particular in science and engineering.[13][14] Capacity management — An improved method of capacity management of services and technology where the risk in providing the excess capacity is borne by the supplier. Catalyst for change — An organization can use an outsourcing agreement as a catalyst for major step change that can not be achieved alone. The outsourcer becomes a Change agent in the process. Enhance capacity for innovation — Companies increasingly use external knowledge service providers to supplement limited in-house capacity for product innovation.[14][15] Reduce time to market — The acceleration of the development or production of a product through the additional capability brought by the supplier.[16] Commodification — The trend of standardizing business processes, IT Services, and application services which enable to buy at the right price, allows businesses access to services which were only available to large corporations. Risk management — An approach to risk management for some types of risks is to partner with an outsourcer who is better able to provide the mitigation.[17] Venture Capital — Some countries match government funds venture capital with private venture capital for start-ups that start businesses in their country.[18] Tax Benefit — Countries offer tax incentives to move manufacturing operations to counter high corporate taxes within another country. Scalability — The outsourced company will usually be prepared to manage a temporary or permanent increase or decrease in production. Creating leisure time — Individuals may wish to outsource their work in order to optimise their work-leisure balance.[19] Liability — Organizations choose to transfer liabilities inherent to specific business processes or services that are outside of their core competencies. [edit] Implications
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    Definition of outsourcing: "Outsourcing or sub-servicing often refers to the process of contracting to a third-party."
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    wikipedia on outsourcing
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    overview of outsourcing
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flat-earth2.jpg (JPEG Image, 479x504 pixels) - 2 views

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    great image
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Skin-deep? 200 high school girls give up makeup - TODAY Fashion & Beauty - TODAYshow.com - 2 views

  • Their message was heard loud and clear. The school-sanctioned club — Redefining Beautiful: One Girl at a Time — quickly grew to 200 members. Boys at the school even formed a support group to encourage the girls.
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    This is how movements now happen! Redefining Beautiful: One Girl at a Time has girls not wearing makeup on Tuesdays. T-shirts and, of course, social media, characterize what these girls are doing (and the guys who support them.) For pundits who think social media is a negative, this is an example of how this generation redefines the world using social networking to spread statements of a generation more quickly than books can be printed.
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    Read about this trend. It would make a GREAT movie.
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Google Flu Trends - 0 views

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    Explore flu trends around the world. Great for class discussions. You can also download world flu activity data.
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