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Authority Unloaded: No Limits to Information Overload
“The forward-thinking librarian understands that Shirky’s ‘everybody’s coming’ is the future. We are now living in the chaotic world, and we do not have a choice regarding where we can position ourselves. Our choice lies in how we respond. If … Continue reading
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Data, Information, Knowledge, Web
“Darwin spent five years sailing in a small boat, Galileo defied the Pope, and Madame Curie handled radioactive materials, all in pursuit of knowledge as the most profound of human goals. … Continue reading
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First photograph of a solar eclipse
Today in 1857, Frederick Langenheim took the first photograph of a solar eclipse. From the Metropolitan Museum website: “In 1841-42, William and Frederick Langenheim opened a daguerreotype studio in Philadelphia. Known for their technical innovations the former journalists were not … Continue reading
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Facebook for Cows?
Three updates on a previous blog post on connected cows and the Internet of Things:
Posted in Agriculture, Big Data, Internet of things
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Open Web Vs. Apps: Who Wins?
Pew Internet Project and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center surveyed 1,021 “technology stakeholders and critics” to gauge their opinions regarding whether the open Web or Apps will rule in 2020. (For the origin of this debate, see “The Web is Dead. … Continue reading
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First U.S. Moon Shot
Today in 1840, John William Draper presented to the Lyceum of Natural History of New York a daguerreotype of the “first representation of the moon’s surface ever taken by photography.” As the Once and Future Moon blog notes, today is also “the 100th … Continue reading
The Sound of Digital Crushing Analog
Posted in Analog, Computer history, Dead media, Telephone
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Data, Information, Knowledge, Whatever
“Noise becomes data when it has a cognitive pattern. Data becomes information when assembled into a coherent whole, which can be related to other information. Information becomes knowledge when integrated with other information in a form useful for making decisions … Continue reading
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Data Mania, 1971
“Too many information handlers seem to measure a man by the number of bits of storage capacity his dossier will occupy… The new information technologies seem to have given birth to a new social virus – ‘data mania.’ It symptoms are … Continue reading
Posted in Big Data, Quotes, Social Impact
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Texting Teens
Pew Internet reported today that texting is the dominant daily mode of communication between teens and all those with whom they communicate. The volume of texting among teens has risen from 50 texts a day in 2009 to 60 texts for … Continue reading
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