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Information Addiction
“Tweeting or checking emails may be harder to resist than cigarettes and alcohol, according to researchers who tried to measure how well people could resist their desires. They even claim that while sleep and sex may be stronger urges, people are more … Continue reading
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Digital Learning Day
Today is Digital Learning Day, “a nationwide celebration of innovative teaching and learning through digital media and technology.” The New York Times posted a series of quotes from articles on education and technology here. My favorite is from 1984: A senior … Continue reading
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Race Against the Machine
“At least since the followers of Ned Ludd smashed mechanized looms in 1811, workers have worried about automation destroying jobs. Economists have reassured them that new jobs would be created even as old ones were eliminated. For over 200 years, … Continue reading
Playing Games, Social and Digital
“One of the characteristics of organized game throughout history is their capacity to transcend cultural differences, social divisions and even political unrest. Straddling the boundary between the sacred and the profane, they can be great social unifiers and dividers. There … Continue reading
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Hacking and Blue Boxes
Today in 1963, the earliest known use of the term “hacking” appeared in The Tech, MIT’s student newspaper. From a Brief History of Hackerdom: “The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to … Continue reading
“A Few Million Monkeys Randomly Recreate Shakespeare”
In 1996, Robert Wilensky famously said: “We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.”
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Privacy (3)
“Google+ is Google itself. We are extending it across all that we do–search, ads, Chrome, Android, Maps, YouTube–so that each of those services contributes to our understanding of who you are….
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The Paperless Office of the Future, Still
News from IDC today: “Not Dead Yet: Printed Page Volume to Reach 1.2 Trillion in the U.S. by 2015.”
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“It Shines for All”: Newspapers in America
Today in 1833, the first issue of the The New York Sun was published. Steven Lubar in InfoCulture: “New technology, in fact, came along after (italics mine) the renaissance of the newspaper. The New York Sun was the first ‘penny paper,’ … Continue reading
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Online Education
According to a new Pew Research Center report, just three-in-ten American adults (29%) say a course taken online provides an equal educational value to one taken in a classroom. By contrast, about half of college presidents (51%) say online courses … Continue reading
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