85 cents of every new dollar in online advertising went to Google or Facebook in early 2016
Ev Williams is The Forrest Gump of the Internet - The Atlantic - 1 views
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The developers who wrote Drupal and Wordpress, two important pieces of blogging software, both recently expressed anxiety over the open web’s future. Since so many of these social networks are operated by algorithms, whose machinations are proprietary knowledge, they worry that people are losing any control over what they see when they log on. The once-polyphonic blogosphere, they say, will turn into the web of mass-manufactured schlock.
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For all the talk of their radical openness, blogs had mostly been the domain of those with hosting space, programming experience, and the time to write them
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Professor Says Facebook Can Help Informal Learning - Wired Campus - Blogs - The Chronic... - 0 views
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"Christine Greenhow, an assistant professor of education at Michigan State University, argues that using informal social-media settings to carry on debates about science can help students refine their argumentative skills, increase their scientific literacy, and supplement learning in the classroom."
Blue Feed, Red Feed - WSJ.com - 0 views
Student Course Evaluations Get An 'F' : NPR Ed : NPR - 1 views
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Not in agreement with the 'taskmaster' element but I have similar concerns about teaching evaluations. "Michele Pellizzari, an economics professor at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, has a more serious claim: that course evaluations may in fact measure, and thus motivate, the opposite of good teaching. "
Disability studies scholars present accessibility guidelines | InsideHigherEd - 0 views
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A group of renowned disability studies scholars are seeking to clarify what makes a book accessible with a set of guidelines that authors can use to help publishers make their books readable by anyone.
The guidelines, a one-page template letter, read a little like an ultimatum. The letter opens by asking a would-be publisher to confirm in writing that print books and accessible formats will be made available simultaneously, then launches into an explanation of how publishers should handle everything from digital rights management to authoring software.
Lennard J. Davis, professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said the letter is meant less to threaten a boycott and more as a public service announcement. Some authors may not budge from the demands in the letter, he said, but others are likely to use it as a way to spread awareness about accessibility.
Your personal networks visualized as microbiological cells in Biologic - 1 views
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Data exists in digital form, on our computers and spreadsheets, but the exciting part about data is what it represents in the real world. Bits are people, places, and things. This is especially true with social data from places like Twitter and Facebook, where ideas flow and people talk to interact with each other in different ways. It's not just retweets and likes. Bloom Studio, the folks who brought you Planetary, embrace this idea in their just released iPad app, Biologic.
Harvard & MIT Sued for Lack of Online Video Captioning - 1 views
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