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The menace of memes: How pictures can paint a thousand lies - 0 views

blogs.spectator.co.uk/...ures-can-paint-a-thousand-lies Spectator meme trust lie context pictures Internet sharing decision Parliament MP politics
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  • Kevin Makice on 06 Dec 14
     
    It is quite easy to end up writing about the problems with parliament and the failings of politicians. Our assumption tends to be that the problems with politics today lie solely in Westminster. But these memes show that mendacity is found outside SW1 as well as in it. If we must hold our politicians in revulsion - rather than recognising that they're no more (or less) flawed than the rest of us - then we should at least also hold those who create these totally inaccurate graphics in even lower esteem.
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This University Teaches You No Skills-Just a New Way to Think - 0 views

www.wired.com/...minerva-project WIRED university skill thinking role education Minerva Ben Nelson
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  • Kevin Makice on 06 Dec 14
     
    Ben Nelson says the primary purpose of a university isn't to prepare students for a career. It's to prepare them for life. And he now has $70 million to prove his point. Nelson is the founder and CEO of a new experiment in higher education called Minerva Project. He says when it comes to learning, job training is the easy part. With the emergence of online courses, it's easier and cheaper than ever to acquire the hard skills you need to land a job. "Why would you spend a quarter of a million dollars and four years to learn to code in Python?" he says. "If that's the role of universities, you'd have to be insane to go to universities."
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15 Reasons to Keep Your Company Small - 0 views

readwrite.com/...keep-your-startup-small ReadWrite company size small business tips insight
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  • Kevin Makice on 13 May 14
     
    Despite all the headlines about billion-dollar exits and IPOs, growing too quickly or too much is not always the most desirable outcome for a startup. Fifteen entrepreneurs, members of Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), offer their perspective on why, in some cases, smaller means mightier.
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Oreo's Dunk in the Dark Super Bowl tweet 'a huge win' and 'a huge failure' - 0 views

www.thedrum.com/...ailure-states-mondelez-digital dunk dark super bowl tweet Oreo branding opportunity 360
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  • Kevin Makice on 13 Mar 14
     
    Oreo's Dunk in the Dark Super Bowl viral tweet was 'a big win' but also 'a big failure' according to Mondelez VP of global media and consumer engagement, Bonin Bough.
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Once upon a time, newspapers were 'social media' - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...social-media-newspapers Guardian Twitter Facebook Benjamin Franklin newspapers Tom Standage
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  • Kevin Makice on 11 Dec 13
     
    Centuries before Twitter, Facebook and the enthusiasm for hyperlocal journalism, social media was enjoying popularity in a British colony across the Atlantic. And the bearers of this media revolution were, of course, newspapers. Tom Standage, digital editor of The Economist, points out in a Medium post that one of the United States' founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin, played a part in social media's history.
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Facebook may be working on a 'sympathize' button to support somber updates - 0 views

www.engadget.com/...facebook-sympathize-button Facebook emotions support like button somber sympathize sympathy hackathon
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  • Kevin Makice on 11 Dec 13
     
    If you've ever felt strange "Liking" a status concerning the death of a pet or other gloomy news on Facebook, you may be able to voice your support in a more appropriate way soon. According to The Telegraph, the social network has a "Sympathize" button in the works that can be used when the original function isn't exactly the best. The new item is the product of a recent hackathon event and will be tied to emotions tagged within updates to indicate the somber mood -- only appearing in those specified instances."
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Are Emoticons the Future of Language? - 0 views

www.youtube.com/watch emoticons emotion text Emoji Dick video Off Book PBS Digital Studios Ben Zimmer Mitchell Stephens Fred Benenson language book
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  • Kevin Makice on 11 Dec 13
     
    In the digital age, we increasingly use written language in place of face to face chat or phone calls. But the advantages email, chat, and text give us in speed come with limitations in communicating emotional tone. Enter emoticons and emojis. Not just a playful supplement to language, these new tools allow for complexity in tone and emotion never before possible in written language, as well as provide new opportunities for creative expression. Rapidly spreading throughout culture, emoticons and emojis fill a void in written language that few realized we so desperately needed.
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The Threat of Reading: If video games came first - 0 views

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  • Kevin Makice on 12 Nov 13
     
    "I know you're not a reader but man, you'd love this." It was pointless saying so but I couldn't help myself. I'd fallen head long again, deep into a story I didn't have to overhear or construct for myself. I was spending hours in my own little world, happily away from the enforced gaming I resisted at school - supposedly classical games that would make us better people.
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Why Do Whistle-Blowers Become Whistle-Blowers? : NPR - 0 views

www.npr.org/...blowers-become-whistle-blowers management ethics research NPR game theory norms David Mayer moral decisions
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  • Kevin Makice on 10 Oct 13
     
    Management gurus have long preached the value of ethical leadership. In the presence of ethical leadership - but the absence of ethical co-workers - what happens to people's honesty?
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Why you should care about your local hackerspace - 0 views

www.infoworld.com/...-your-local-hackerspace-221628 hackerspace maker innovation curiosity community technology problem solving pragmatism skills
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  • Kevin Makice on 06 Jul 13
     
    "Open centers of grassroots innovation, hackerspaces offer opportunities to source talent, create goodwill, and push technology forward"
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Benefits of professional development are similar both online and face-to-face - 0 views

computinged.wordpress.com/...evelopment-similar-study-finds Barry Fishman research face-to-face online professional development benefits flexibility
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  • Kevin Makice on 05 Jul 13
     
    "Done well, on-line professional development is as effective as face-to-face professional development.  These results are promising for our CSLearning4U project. In particular, the benefit that Barry Fishman saw is what we were most hoping for, based on our studies with Klara Benda - it's all about fitting into the teachers' lives."
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Companies look at wrong things when using Facebook to screen job applicants - 0 views

phys.org/...wrong-facebook-screen-job.html research North Carolina State University employers human resources Facebook social media screen filter digital fluency
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  • Kevin Makice on 02 Jul 13
     
    "Employers are increasingly using Facebook to screen job applicants and weed out candidates they think have undesirable traits. But a new study from North Carolina State University shows that those companies may have a fundamental misunderstanding of online behavior and, as a result, may be eliminating desirable job candidates."
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MIT panelists: Big data calls for data-driven decision making skills - 0 views

searchbusinessanalytics.techtarget.com/...-driven-decision-making-skills data skills digital literacy big data
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  • christian briggs on 29 May 13
     
    "Organizations need to develop data-driven decision making skills to capitalize on new and emerging big data technologies"
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IU saves nearly $20 million with open source financial system: IU News Room: Indiana Un... - 0 views

newsinfo.iu.edu/...24137.html Kuali Indiana University savings organization enterprise financial systems
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  • Kevin Makice on 18 Apr 13
     
    Indiana University has saved nearly $20 million by joining with other universities to reduce administrative costs for essential financial software systems. The Kuali Financial System is open source software that was created to fit the needs of colleges and universities. By definition, open source software is free to use, distribute and modify, meaning IU avoids the costs of licensing expensive commercial systems that often cost tens of millions of dollars to buy and install. IU fully implemented and transitioned to the Kuali System in February.
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Digital divide persists in Canada, both in access and Internet fluency | canada.com - 0 views

o.canada.com/...digital-divide digital literacy Canada digital divide research
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  • christian briggs on 21 Mar 13
     
    Digital divide persists in Canada, both in access and Internet fluency
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What Teens Get About the Internet That Parents Don't - Mimi Ito - The Atlantic - 0 views

www.theatlantic.com/...273852 Internet parents kids Mimi Ito learning
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  • Parents more often than not have a negative view of the role of the Internet in learning, and young people almost always have a positive one.
  • Young people are desperate for learning that is relevant and part of the fabric of their social lives, where they are making choices about how, when, and what to learn, without it all being mapped for them in advance. Learning on the Internet is about posting a burning question on a forum like Quora or Stack Exchange, searching for a how to video on YouTube or Vimeo, or browsing a site like Instructables, Skillshare, and Mentormob for a new project to pick up. It's not just professors who have something to share, but everyone who has knowledge and skills.
  • The Internet and her friends have offered my daughter a lifeline to explore new interests that are not just about the resume and getting ahead of everyone else. In today's high-pressure climate for teens, the Internet is feeling more and more like one of the few havens they can find for the lessons that matter most.
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Data from social networks are making social science more scientific. (via @TheEconomist) - 0 views

www.economist.com/...ce-more-scientific-dr-seldon-i alessandro vespignani social physics GLEAM
shared by christian briggs on 09 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Alessandro Vespignani, one of Dr Song’s colleagues at Northeastern, discussed what might be done with such knowledge. Dr Vespignani, another moonlighting physicist, studies epidemiology. He and his team have created a program called GLEAM (Global Epidemic and Mobility Model) that divides the world into hundreds of thousands of squares. It models travel patterns between these squares (busy roads, flight paths and so on) using equations based on data as various as international air links and school holidays. The result is impressive. In 2009, for example, there was an outbreak of a strain of influenza called H1N1. GLEAM mimicked what actually happened with great fidelity. In most countries it calculated to within a week when the number of new infections peaked. In no case was the calculation out by more than a fortnight
  • christian briggs on 09 Mar 13
     
    Data from social networks are making social science more scientific (via @TheEconomist)
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