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InfoStory Quant: 8% of online Americans use Twitter
In the first-ever survey from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project that exclusively examines Twitter users, it was found that 8% percent of the American adults who use the Internet are Twitter users. “It is an online … Continue reading
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This Day in Information: The Mother of All Demos
Today in 1968, Doug Engelbart demonstrated the oNLine System (NLS) to about one thousand technology specialists at the Fall Joint Computer Conference held by the American Federation of Information Processing. The demonstration introduced the first computer mouse, dynamic linking, e-mail, … Continue reading
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Information Technology Predictions
The December issue of IEEE Spectrum has a great cover story on Ray Kurzweil’s failed predictions. Says John Renne:
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InfoStory Quote: Navigating Information
“Information isn’t always knowledge and usually falls far short of wisdom. Navigating the information hierarchy is harder than we would like to think and involves more uncertainty than we care to admit.” –David Alan Grier, Investing in Ignorance [Congratulations to … Continue reading
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This Day in Information: Birth of Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Internet
Today in 1768, the first weekly installment of the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica was published in Edinburgh, Scotland.
This Day in Information: First Computer Science PhD
Today in 1965, Richard L.Wexelblat was the first candidate in a computer science program to complete a dissertation. Many doctorate candidates had performed computer-related work, but Wexelblat’s diploma, presented by the University of Pennsylvania, was the first one to carry … Continue reading
Media Consumption in 2030: 2,570 exabytes
Chris Preist and Paul Shabajee, University of Bristol: “Assuming that the average westerner’s media consumption moves fully online but does not rise substantially beyond current levels, and the global middle class reach western levels of consumption, the researchers estimate the … Continue reading
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InfoStory Quotes: Power to WikiLeaks
Joseph Galarneau: “The power of the press can be dramatically limited when the power to the press is disconnected.”
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InfoStory Links: Metcalfe, McAfee, Davenport
Bob Metcalfe interviewed in the Wall Street Journal about what he calls the “innovation bubble.” Metcalfe: “You don’t grow the economy by growing government… There are good ways and bad ways of [stimulating innovation] and in my new fifth career … Continue reading
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Research on Web 2.0 in the Enterprise
The December issue of Communications of the ACM has an article on “Business Impact of Web 2.0 Technologies” by Stephen J. Andriole. As he correctly notes, there has been a lot of talk about the impact of Web 2.0 technologies … Continue reading
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