85 cents of every new dollar in online advertising went to Google or Facebook in early 2016
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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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U. of Florida Online Bachelor's Programs Win State Approval - Wired Campus - The Chroni... - 0 views
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"The online offerings will also save students money. Online tuition for in-state students is capped by state law at 75 percent of what students attending classes in person pay-which will come to $112 per credit hour-while students from other states will pay "market rates" in the vicinity of $450 to $500 per credit hour, the university says."
The remarkable way 3D printers are saving lives in refugee camps - 0 views
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"There's no shortage of crises to attend to. But by providing new technology and tools, Refugee Open Ware might make refugee camps a space where those at the epicenter of a crisis can send out shock waves of good."
Save Those Blogs | doug - off the record - 3 views
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This comes up every so often. h/t D'Arcy Norman
Strategies for Coping with Information Overload, ca.1550-1700 - 0 views
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"This article surveys some of the ways in which early modern scholars responded to what they perceived as an overabundance of books. In addition to owning more books and applying selective judgment as well as renewed diligence to their reading and note-taking, scholars devised shortcuts, sometimes based on medieval antecedents. These shortcuts included the use of the alphabetical index, whether printed or handmade, to read a book in parts, and the use of reference books, amanuenses, abbreviations, or the cutting and pasting from printed or manuscript sources to save time and effort in note-taking. "
A Highlighter for Marking Up Whatever You Want Online | WIRED - 0 views
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Paste any website URL into Pith.li’s website and it’ll strip the content into a clean version that you can mark all over like a piece of paper. Your cursor acts as your marker, allowing you to highlight bits of text and make notes in the margins while saving your highlights in a tidy little box on the left side of your screen. The idea is that over time you’ll be able to build an easily accessible file of the most interesting stuff on the internet and be able to share just share those bits with whoever you want.
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