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The Wisdom of Crowds - 0 views

    • Rachael Schiel
       
      look this up
  • There's a division of Eli Lilly called e.Lilly, which has been experimenting with using internal stock markets and hypothetical drug candidates to predict whether new drugs will gain FDA approval. That's an essential thing for drug companies to know, because their whole business depends on them not only picking winners—that is, good, safe drugs—but also killing losers before they've invested too much money in them.
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    Q&A with author
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Stefano's Linotype » Semanticsheets - 1 views

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    In Borges' "Library of Babel," the universe is one big library. The author of this piece mentions that the internet is becoming like Borges' Babel. Sooo interesting...
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Passengers fed up with inconsiderate cell phone user - 0 views

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    People are saying "it's about time" that something is finally being done about people who are loud and inconsiderate about technology use. I think people have finally seen how manners with cell phones, etc have spiraled out of control the past ten years.
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Internet Archive starts backing up digital books on paper - 3 views

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    this is interesting but how do they KNOW what the "original copy" is. and I just submitted a random homework assignment as a "book" to IA as a test to see if we could upload a copy of our ebook that we wrote as a class for ENGL 295. Are they just going to store those "books" people randomly upload as well? Who determines what goes in the hardcopy archive?
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    That is sounds like it could be the headline for The Onion!
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Breaking News and Opinion on The Huffington Post - 0 views

shared by Bri Zabriskie on 06 May 11 - Cached
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    the newsblog I mentioned in class that sometimes uses long lists of tweets from people on the ground at the bottom of their articles to keep their article updated.
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The U.S. Secret Service is Following You on Twitter - 0 views

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    Does this promote citizen involvment and interest in the government, or is this Big Brotherish? I can't decide.
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Egypt Revolution 2011: A Complete Guide To The Unrest - 0 views

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    can't find the original post with the tweet list but this is a cool example of the format news takes in the digital age. LOOK at all those links and it's short and concise with lots of little lists and such.
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