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Digital Tipping Point: Online Advertising vs. Newspaper Advertising
In 2010, online advertising ($26B) in the United States surpassed for the first time newspaper advertising ($22.8B). Source: PwC/IAB
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How Online Education Is Changing the Way We Learn
Via: OnlineEducation.net
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On Translations
“…translators will talk for ever about the difficulty of the job. They have bad consciences. They know the original too well and live with a constant measure of their failure.” —David Constantine
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Nineteen Eighty-Four Published
Today in 1949, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four was published. “The thought police would get him just the same. He had committed–would have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper–the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, … Continue reading
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Vint Cerf on Talking Back to the Machine
“…anyone who has used a voice-enabled navigation system will have encountered the ‘recalculating’ phenomenon when you miss a turn. I admit that after several of these incidents, I’m convinced the robot speaker sounds increasingly impatient and cynical, leaving off the … Continue reading
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InfoStory Meeting: Ada and Babbage
Today in 1833, Ada Byron (later Countess Lovelace) met Charles Babbage when visiting his house to see a portion the Difference Engine, or what her mother, Lady Byron, called his “thinking machine.” James Gleick writes in The Information: “Babbage saw … Continue reading
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Tomorrow’s News: Storing Big Data
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) have developed Moneta, a phase-change memory (PCM) solid state storage device that is thousands of times faster than conventional hard drives and up to seven times faster than current solid-state drives … Continue reading
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Napster Released
Today in 1999, Napster released its file sharing service, letting people swap music stored on their computers. On April 3, 2008, the iTunes Store surpassed Wal-Mart as the biggest music retailer in the US. In 2010, US recording industry revenues … Continue reading
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Theory of the Internet Born
50 years ago today, Leonard Kleinrock, submitted his PhD thesis proposal at MIT, “Information Flow in Large Communication Nets,” establishing, in his words, “the underlying principles of data networks that are the basis of the Internet.”
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Pew on Why Microsoft Bought Skype
“…online phone calling has taken off as a quarter of American adult internet users (24%) have placed phone calls online. That amounts to 19% of all American adults. On any given day 5% of internet users are going online to … Continue reading
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The Story of Information 