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InfoStory Quote: Show the Machine Who’s the Boss
“In my experience, you assert control over a computer—show it who’s the boss—by making it do something unique. That means programming it….If you devote a couple of hours to programming a new machine, you’ll feel better about it ever afterward” … Continue reading
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Link of the Day: Who’s Number 1 in Social Networking?
According to comScore Russians are the heaviest social networkers worldwide in terms of time spent per user, followed by Israel and Turkey.
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PointCounterPoint: eTextbooks or Not?
“Now that netbooks and tablets cost less than textbooks, it’s time for schools and districts to embrace digital learning. It’s time for more engagement, more time on task, more productivity. Our kids are online, it’s time their education was” —Tom … Continue reading
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This Day In Information: World Statistics Day
Today is the first World Statistics Day. “Here he comes big with Statistics, Troubled and sharp about fac’s. He has heaps of the Form that is thinkable—The stuff that is feeling he lacks.” — Robert Louis Stevenson “Our modern reliance … Continue reading
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The InfoStory Quant: Mobile Rising
76% of cell phone owners (age 18+) use their phones to take pictures Seven in ten cell phone owners send or receive text messages Four in ten access the internet on their phones 35% of U.S. adults have “apps” on … Continue reading
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InfoStory Quote: Facebook Rank
“Following 500 million people into a party means that a lot of the beer and pretzels are already long gone.” –Thomas E. Weber, The Daily Beast
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Internet Censorship Circumvention
Only 3% of all Internet users in countries that censure the Web are using censorship circumvention tools, according to a new report from the Berkman Center for the Internet and Society. Ethan Zuckerman: “There are a couple of possible conclusions … Continue reading
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InfoStory Quote: Inadequate Vs. No Data
“Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all” –Charles Babbage (died today in 1871)
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The Joys and Fears of Technology at the Boston Book Festival
Two entertaining panels yesterday at the Boston Book Festival: “The Tendencies of Technology,” with Nick Bilton, Kevin Kelly, David Kirkpatrick, and Nicholas Negroponte, moderated smartly by John Hockenberry; and “Internet or Not?” with Nicholas Carr, Eric Haseltine, and William Powers, … Continue reading
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The InfoStory Quant: eBooks
There are 1.7 million free books on the Internet. Kindle owners buy twice as many books. — Nicholas Negroponte (at the Boston Book Festival today)
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