"And for patients, medical care has become an increasingly isolating experience, as their caregivers seem more beholden to technologies than to their illness, which is most certainly not virtual."

There are many more concepts here than are relevant to ITGS, but it's a good guide to much of the vocaubery.

Good BBC podcast on internet addiction look down the list.

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Internet in Cuba

A blog that is no longer active, but still quite relevant for your ITGS reading pleasure.

Blog on ICT that is worth reading and following to help you prepare for exams.

this is the author's website for the new book you will be using to prepare for the case study "Web 2.0 Concepts and Applications"

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Overstock.com SEO tactics get noticed by google.

A very old article, but worth the read.

The Department of Defense and open source.

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At George Mason University Saturday, at the Fourth International Conference on Writing Research, the Educational Testing Service presented evidence that a pilot test of automated grading of freshman writing placement tests at the New Jersey Institute of Technology showed that computer programs can be trusted with the job. The NJIT results represent the first "validity testing" - in which a series of tests are conducted to make sure that the scoring was accurate - that ETS has conducted of automated grading of college students' essays. Based on the positive results, ETS plans to sign up more colleges to grade placement tests in this way - and is already doing so."

A rather long, but interesting story about search engine results ranking. The J.C. Penney case.

Please use this bookmark to post your reflections. Using a Paper 2 style approach, CRITERION A) identify the IT system and describe the issues. Identify the relationship of the major stakeholders to the issues. CRITERION B) Describe step-by-step how the system works and describe how the system is related to the issue(s). CRITERION C) Evaluate the impacts on society -- both positive and negative or from differing stakeholder's P.O.V. CRITERION D) Evaluate the efficacy of a solution to the problem.

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