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Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Facilitating Serendipity with Peel-and-Eat Shrimp - Grant McCracken - Harvard Business ... - 0 views

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    Best short article on mixing it up in networks and forums to innovate, expand one's thinking, etc. that I have seen. By Grant McCracken, HBR, 1.4.13. Believe this short article has value for personal learning plan/network development. Excerpt: Only the person with several addresses in the conceptual world can hope for serendipity, that extraordinary moment when vexing problems vanish before the approach of deeply unexpected understanding.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

A Rap on Race - Brain Pickings - 0 views

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    excellent five part series from Rap on Race in 1970 between James Baldwin and Margaret Mead, captured by Maria Popova, highly appropriate for our current time.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Privacy Versus The 'Tyranny Of The Algorithm' - 0 views

  • A recent study looked at more than 500,000 tweets about depression, took 4,000 tweets that mentioned a diagnosis or medication, and followed those Twitter users in order to create an app that predicts suicide. This use of tweets crosses a line, Peel said. "This is far more intrusive" than standard data-gathering from social media.
  • Medical data is also valuable to criminals
  • Criminals are after electronic medical records, as well as prescriptions and insurance information to pay for their own medical expenses or to acquire prescription drugs illegally.
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  • David Vladeck, former director of the Federal Trade Commission's Consumer Protection Bureau
  • It's what I call the tyranny of the algorithm," Vladeck said. "What happens on the Internet is driven by algorithms. There are ethical constraints that need to be debated."
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    article by Kelly Jackson Higgins at Dark Reading.com on what's happening with the sale of online data collected legally, but not necessarily analyzed accurately or sold ethically. November 5, 2014
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