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Emily Rimland

Google's and Facebook's facial recognition opt-in policies are a smokescreen. - Slate M... - 1 views

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privacy facialrecognition optin google facebook slate

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  • Emily Rimland on 21 Dec 11
     
    Great article that's about ethics of online technologies. Many of the analogies stuck me as similar to making sure technology enhances learning and not using it just for technology's sake.
Cole Camplese

The Twitter Trap - NYTimes.com - 3 views

www.nytimes.com/...the-twitter-trap.html

twitter

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  • bartmon on 25 May 11
     
    "But my inner worrywart wonders whether the new technologies overtaking us may be eroding characteristics that are essentially human: our ability to reflect, our pursuit of meaning, genuine empathy, a sense of community connected by something deeper than snark or political affinity. " "Genuine Empathy" is the one that really concerns me, and I see it in how my nieces, and others, use facebook. The FB birthday thing comes to mind...now people get as many "Happy birthday!" notes as they have friends...but are the well-wishers even thinking about my birthday? Probably not, it's just FB reminding them "Hey, it's bart's bday" and now the norm is to stop by and say "happy birthday" without even thinking about it. The end of the article has a nice quote from a novel as well: "The generation that had information, but no context. "
  • Jeff Swain on 26 May 11
     
    This is a well written piece. The author does a great job at tugging on our emotions. However, I believe he possesses only a superficial understanding of the medium.
Allan Gyorke

OnSwipe - Insanely Easy Tablet Publishing - 4 views

www.onswipe.com

mobile touch magazine

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  • Allan Gyorke on 08 Jun 11
     
    "Onswipe enables publishers to provide the best browsing and advertising experience to their readers on tablet and touch devices. Get Started In Under 3 Minutes Infinitely Customizable Anytime. Anywhere. Any device. Breathtaking Ads"
  • Allan Gyorke on 08 Jun 11
     
    During the 7 Things discussion today, we're talking about tools like Flipboard and Zite which are on the aggregation side. OnSwipe is on the production end - creating mobile/touch friendly layouts. Might be nice for the TLT annual report.
  • bkozlek on 08 Jun 11
     
    We'll get this install on wp.tlt.psu.edu soon.
Cole Camplese

DNA/How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet - 1 views

www.douglasadams.com/...19990901-00-a.html

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  • I suppose earlier generations had to sit through all this huffing and puffing with the invention of television, the phone, cinema, radio, the car, the bicycle, printing, the wheel and so on, but you would think we would learn the way these things work, which is this: 1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal; 2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it; 3) anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.
  • In other words the cost of connection is rapidly approaching zero, and for a very simple reason: the value of the web increases with every single additional person who joins it. It’s in everybody’s interest for costs to keep dropping closer and closer to nothing until every last person on the planet is connected.
  • Another problem with the net is that it’s still ‘technology’, and ‘technology’, as the computer scientist Bran Ferren memorably defined it, is ‘stuff that doesn’t work yet.’ We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‘crash’ when we tried to use them. Before long, computers will be as trivial and plentiful as chairs (and a couple of decades or so after that, as sheets of paper or grains of sand) and we will cease to be aware of the things. In fact I’m sure we will look back on this last decade and wonder how we could ever have mistaken what we were doing with them for ‘productivity.’
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  • The same thing is happening in communication technology. Most of us are stumbling along in a kind of pidgin version of it, squinting myopically at things the size of fridges on our desks, not quite understanding where email goes, and cursing at the beeps of mobile phones. Our children, however, are doing something completely different. Risto Linturi, research fellow of the Helsinki Telephone Corporation, quoted in Wired magazine, describes the extraordinary behaviour kids in the streets of Helsinki, all carrying cellphones with messaging capabilities. They are not exchanging important business information, they’re just chattering, staying in touch. "We are herd animals," he says. "These kids are connected to their herd – they always know where it’s moving." Pervasive wireless communication, he believes will "bring us back to behaviour patterns that were natural to us and destroy behaviour patterns that were brought about by the limitations of technology."
  • Cole Camplese on 11 May 11
     
    Great piece by the late Douglas Adams in 1999.  So true in the rearview mirror!
  • bkozlek on 11 May 11
     
    An 11 year old text, the message of which still needs to be delivered to many people today.
gary chinn

Tim Harford's Adapt: How to fund research so that it generates insanely great ideas, no... - 2 views

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innovation science

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  • What did Capecchi do? He took the NIH's money, and, ignoring their admonitions, he poured almost all of it into his risky gene-targeting project. It was, he recalls, a big gamble. If he hadn't been able to show strong enough initial results in the three-to-five-year time scale demanded by the NIH, they would have cut off his funding. Without their seal of approval, he might have found it hard to get funding from elsewhere. His career would have been severely set back, his research assistants looking for other work. His laboratory might not have survived.In 2007, Mario Capecchi was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine for this work on mouse genes. As the NIH's expert panel had earlier admitted, when agreeing to renew his funding: "We are glad you didn't follow our advice."
  • Whichever way they sliced the data, Azoulay, Manzo and Zivin found evidence that the more open-ended, risky HHMI grants were funding the most important, unusual, and influential research. HHMI researchers, apparently no better qualified than their NIH-funded peers, were far more influential, producing twice as many highly cited research articles. They were more likely to win awards and more likely to train students who themselves won awards.
  • The HHMI researchers also produced more failures; a higher proportion of their research papers were cited by nobody at all. No wonder: The NIH program was designed to avoid failure, while the HHMI program embraced it. And in the quest for truly original research, some failure is inevitable.
  • gary chinn on 17 May 11
     
    not specific to education at all, but a fascinating & well-written article about innovation, risk-taking and societal choices.
Derek Gittler

What Defines a Meme? | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine - 1 views

www.smithsonianmag.com/...What-Defines-a-Meme.html

Meme Culture Information Dawkins Ideas

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  • What lies at the heart of every living thing is not a fire, not warm breath, not a ‘spark of life.’ It is information, words, instructions,”
  • “If you want to understand life,” Dawkins wrote, “don’t think about vibrant, throbbing gels and oozes, think about information technology.”
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