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Censoring the Web Every Which Way | John C. Dvorak | PCMag.com - 0 views

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  • Ah, yes, the key is "censorship is required." It's only too apparent that this notion of national censorship on a country-by-country basis will eventually lead to a completely censored and dumbed-down Internet, which will only be useful for approved shopping, Twitter, and Facebook.
  • where content must be censored to protect the hopeless public from getting too alarmed by the crazy information found on the Web
  • The government, some academics, and the police would be able to access the international net. The dark net would form and it would bring us back to a pre-Google and pre-Alta Vista, even a pre-Yahoo, era.
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How Web 2.0 is changing medicine | BMJ - 0 views

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  • What seems clear is that Web 2.0 brings people together in a more dynamic, interactive space.
  • The new environment features a highly connected digital network of practitioners (medical or otherwise), where knowledge exchange is not limited or controlled by private interests.
  • What is obvious is that doctors are seeking new methods of information discovery because of the limitations of search engines.
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  • RSS may be a useful way to fight information overload. RSS feeds help to organise new web content sent to you in real time by the best medical blogs, evidence based sites like the Cochrane Library, and newly published video and audio from major medical journals.
  • Web 2.0 ultimately returns to the idea of using software to create optimal knowledge building opportunities for doctors
  • In closing, let me say that Web 2.0's push for openness has resulted in the expectation of equal amounts of transparency and openness in medical publishing.
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Health 2.0: How Interactive Websites are Changing the Healthcare Industry | Medical Pra... - 0 views

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  • These days, having a website is no longer a novelty; it’s an absolute necessity for any physician concerned with staying in front of local competition, acquiring new patients and increasing patient satisfaction.  Internet access is now commonplace for the public of every age. Today the number one place people are turning to find medical resources and health care providers is the Internet, and Health care websites are the second most common sites opened on the Internet. Given this new trend in medical information-retrieval, web-based communication has become increasingly important for creating a more effective patient experience.
  • To satisfy the needs of your patient-base and streamline office workload, you need a fully-functional, interactive website that places the patient in the driver’s seat of their own medical decisions; a patient portal that enables the doctor and patient to interact in an efficient, effective and confidential fashion.
  • Health 2.0 suggests that patient-doctor interaction can take place beyond the walls of an office with the help of advanced, web-based communication technology.
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  • As a result of this new interactive technology, physicians are able to provide better resources to patients, enhance communication with patients, create a unique service that differentiates their practice from the competition, and finally, to streamline office operations and improve practice productivity.
  • An Interactive website helps maintain a seamless communication channel between patients and their providers, while improving  overall efficiency of the delivery of care a practice can provide.  Ultimately, the patient receives better care and an overall improved experience as they gain control over their health information.  Subsequently, workload for the office is reduced with a large amount of the communication and information-sharing happening over the Web and not taking valuable time in the reception area or in the examination room.
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Climate Change meets Web 2.0 - Technology - NZ Herald News - 0 views

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  • By using the power of web 2.0 technology, Celsias is bringing together companies and individuals that are serious about making a difference to the environment.
  • TechCrunch, the world's most read technology blog, recently described Celsias as one of the most authoritative websites on climate change on the planet, a notable achievement for a New Zealand company of any size. With now over 100 writers and close to 100 companies and organizations already on the site, and 150,000 to 350,000 page views per month, Celsias is rapidly becoming a global leader in the climate change arena.
  • The Celsias pool of international writers continues to produce environmentally focused articles while new tools and services on the website are being introduced. These include a 'Green Jobs' listing, a Marketplace enabling users to find and buy products manufactured by environmentally conscious companies, and a map to help people find green projects and events happening in their area.
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  • Companies in global markets are making the most of presenting themselves as environmentally conscious to the rapidly growing green marketplace, and now, through Celsias, New Zealand companies have the opportunity to take advantage of our 'green' reputation.
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Changing Paradigms Managed Learning Environments and Web 2.0 - 0 views

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  • The paper finds that, in this rapidly changing environment, educators need to consider the implications of these developments for the current design of the LCMS. An emerging generation of users influenced by social networking experiences and empowered to create, publish, appropriate and redistribute content may find the structures of the LCMS traditional and inflexible in contrast with the user-centered approach of Web 2.0 services.
  • require innovative solutions, including broad institution-wide dialogues on the role of organizations in a Web 2.0 environment, innovative approaches to faculty training, a new emphasis on the role of faculty as learners in a rapidly changing environment, and rethinking the underlying architecture of the LCMS model.
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How the internet is changing us: CDF report looks back, ahead | Knight Digital Media Ce... - 0 views

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  • CDF found that U.S. internet users are becoming less credulous. As of June 2011, “only 40% of users said that most or all of the information on the internet is reliable—a decline from 55% in 2000.” Also, currently 60% of U.S. internet users say that “about half or less of information online is reliable”—up from 45% in 2000. About 15% currently think that “only a small portion or none of online information is reliable.” But mainstream media sites tend to attract more trust: 73-80% said most or all of the information these sites post is “generally reliable and accurate.”
  • 2011 study found that internet users give high marks to newspapers for many characteristics, among them the quality of news content, local and national coverage, and providing trustworthy information. And 63% of internet users report they would miss the print edition of their newspaper if it was no longer available—up from 56% in 2007. However, internet users also report spending less than two hours a week reading print newspapers—an amount that has declined steadily since 2005
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How Online Education Is Changing the Way We Learn [INFOGRAPHIC] - 0 views

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  • Over the past decade or so, the Internet has become a huge source of information and education, especially for those who might be short on time, money or other resources. And it’s not just crowdsourced data collections like Wikipedia or single-topic blogs that encourage individual learning; huge corporations and nonprofits are making online education and virtual classrooms a very formal affair these days.
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Our private lives on the web | euronews, right on - 0 views

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  • Many feel we have lost control over who knows what about us online. Our exact location can even now be tracked.
  • “But all that is retained for three, four, five years, or probably 10 years in the end,” he added. “And that is something that is really new, that one individual company holds that much information about one individual user. And I do think that a lo
  • t of it is not very transparent and communicated to the user in a way that they really understand that.”
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  • The Director of Privacy International, Simon Davies, said: “Well, some of the changes are long awaited and they’re much needed. They fall short in some respects, because it’s still the case that privacy in Europe is based on trust. And it doesn’t matter how hard the commission tries to enforce privacy, while the willingness is not there from industry and government, we’re still going to end up in a surveillance society.”
  • Google is also caught up in big controversy over its privacy policies. The company was not available for an interview, but its Global Privacy Counsel, Peter Fleischer, did give euronews the following statement:
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The internet: is it changing the way we think? | Technology | The Observer - 0 views

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      Information about how the way we obtain information has changed
  • Every 50 years or so, American magazine the Atlantic lobs an intellectual grenade into our culture. In the summer of 1945, for example, it published an essay by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engineer Vannevar Bush entitled "As We May Think". It turned out to be the blueprint for what eventually emerged as the world wide web. Two summers ago, the Atlantic published an essay by Nicholas Carr, one of the blogosphere's most prominent (and thoughtful) contrarians, under the headline "Is Google Making Us Stupid?".
  • "Over the past few years," Carr wrote, "I've had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn't going – so far as I can tell – but it's changing. I'm not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I'm reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument and I'd spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That's rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I'm always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle."
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  • uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn't going – so far as I can tell – but it's c
  • "Over the past few years," Carr wrote, "I've had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn't going – so far as I can tell – but it's changing. I'm not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I'm reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument and I'd spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That's rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I'm always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle."
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Information technology has changed the lives of immigrants « Online Education... - 0 views

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  • The boom in the information technology sector has had far-reaching effects especially on the immigrant population.  It has almost changed the way Canada lives, works and learns.  The new ‘digital literacy wave’ has caught on and that has put demands on most of us and more so the immigrant worker in Canada.  Hence the language instruction is changing in Canada in response to the immigrant settlement.  There are changes in other fields as well but the change is noticeable in the field of information technology as newcomers have learnt French or English and have adapted to the life in Canada.
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3 Ways Education Has Changed | Teacher Test - 0 views

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  • There is a lot of talk concerning how education has changed, especially when it comes to the teaching of our children in the public school system. The changes in the education of our school children centers around standardized testing, teaching methods, school grades, teacher salaries, and the No Child Left Behind law.
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    There is a lot of talk concerning how education has changed, especially when it comes to the teaching of our children in the public school system. The changes in the education of our school children centers around standardized testing, teaching methods, school grades, teacher salaries, and the No Child Left Behind law.
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Ron Gutman: How Technology Has Changed The Way We Access Health - 0 views

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  • When I grew up, the primary sources of health information for most of us were our physicians or our friends and family. But over the past decade the resources we use and rely on for health information, and how we use it, have radically changed. With the ubiquitous availability of the Internet, we're now taking on the role of gathering and assessing this information ourselves, often before we visit or return to our doctors. To find health information, most of us turn to search engines or health sites -- whether to answer questions about a new physical discomfort, a known ailment or about a health matter facing a child or other person we care.
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How Science Has Changed in the Information Age - voiceofsandiego.org: The Henrietta Lac... - 0 views

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  • We are living in the Information Age. A world where the internet, computers and smartphones are an essential part of our everyday lives, allowing us to immediately access and share information worldwide. Digital technologies have changed every aspect of our lives; from the way we work and learn to the way we play and socialize.
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HowStuffWorks "How has technology changed the way we conduct business?" - 0 views

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  • Technology affects almost every aspect of our lives. Just look around you and you'll see how wired we are. Thanks to the Internet, virtually anything you desire can be delivered to your door in a matter of days. Personal information is more accessible over the Internet as well -- you can look up everything from a long-lost cousin to the registered sex offenders in your neighborhood. You can even trade stocks or file taxes online. Parents don't need to lose sleep waiting for their teenage daughter to come home -- they can just call her cell phone, or send an unobtrusive text, to check up.
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Social Media Has Changed The Way We Live | amotherworld - 0 views

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  • Social media has changed the way we connect with people and get information.  Just look back at technology and the pattern of tech evolution. Typewriters replaced by computers, telephones by cell phones, libraries by the internet… the list goes on and on. The internet provides information instantaneously.  Not only that it’s immediate, that information is available 24 hours a day and on many mobile platforms too. Now with Social Media such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, blogs, mobile apps – anywhere you go, information can come with you.
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    Social media has changed the way we connect with people and get information.  Just look back at technology and the pattern of tech evolution. Typewriters replaced by computers, telephones by cell phones, libraries by the internet… the list goes on and on. The internet provides information instantaneously.  Not only that it's immediate, that information is available 24 hours a day and on many mobile platforms too. Now with Social Media such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, blogs, mobile apps - anywhere you go, information can come with you.
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Apple Changed Way the World Communicates | Science and Technology | English - 0 views

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  • Under the leadership of Steve Jobs, Apple has produced products that have changed the way people around the world communicate, obtain information and entertain themselves. Here's a look at Apple’s success and what sets the company apart from other computer companies as it prepares for its founder and visionary leader to step down as CEO.
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How Technology Has Changed the Way We Think | Bill Mullins' Weblog - Tech Thoughts - 0 views

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  • There can be no doubt that recent rapid advances in technology have affected the world we live in and how most of us conduct our day-to-day lives. However, few of us ever think about the impact of these developments on our own internal processes. Once you delve into this complex, sometimes unnerving idea, though, it becomes apparent that technology has had a major impact on our brains and our selves.
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