Editorial: A Better Chance to Succeed
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Community colleges are sending many capable students to remedial classes,
which are often a dead end. They need to quickly develop better ways to
assess st...
Op-Ed Contributor: The Poverty of an Idea
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“The Other America” had a simple thesis: poverty was both more extensive
and more tenacious than an affluent America had assumed.
From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg
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John Naughton, Professor of Public Understanding at the Open University
gave a talk at Leicester University on the 22nd February, summarizing some
of his i...
Apple Inc., Made In America
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[image: apple-business-card]There are two sayings on the back of every
Apple product: Designed By Apple in California and Assembled in China.
These stateme...
Profile of the Data Journalist: The Visualizer
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To learn more about the people who are redefining the practice
computer-assisted reporting, in some cases, building the newsroom stack for
the 21st century...
מבחן טיורינג: גרסת נתניהו
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עוזי ארד: "נתניהו משוכנע שהמבקר זומם להשמיד אותו, לכן רוח המפקד היא שמותר
לשקר לביקורת ומי שמשתף איתה פעולה מוצג כסוס טרויאני". בנימין נתניהו בתגובה:
"לא ...
Handwriting meme.
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I am usually meme-adverse, but I am waiting for a video to render so that I
can go home and content here has been pretty conference-focused for the
last li...
The research Hussites
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[This is another from my catalogue of strained metaphors, and my grasp of
religious history is rather tenuous, so I'm sure people who are better
acquainted...
Born This Way Foundation: guided by research
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Yesterday, Cynthia Germanotta and her daughter Lady Gaga launched their new
initiative to empower youth: the Born This Way Foundation. The Foundation
wants...
Five books
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I had the pleasure recently of being interviewed, by Alec Ash, for The
Browser's excellent "Five Books" series, in which one writer talks about
five books ...
Follow the Sun: Global online conference
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In case you are urgently looking for opportunities to learn something
online, have a look at the Follow the Sun online conference. Great group of
keynote s...
Making Money as a Student
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Every kid needs to make some money , right ? You want a job. You can’t get
a job. You need experience. You got no experience. High School and College
kid p...
Understanding Information Architecture
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: there has never been a better time to be an information architect. Demand for classic IA remains strong, while cro...
Links for 2012-02-27 [del.icio.us]
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- cloudlearn.net
The aim of the "cloudlearn" research project was (and is) to source,
collate, reflect on and publish proven effective practic...
Scoble: hit man of Silicon Valley?
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Today a “journalist” (Dan Lyons) says I have been hitting up VCs to start
my own fund. Really? I didn’t know that! For the record, I’m not raising a
fund. ...
Global Trade Flows
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Finally, at least some documentation for the “Global Trade Flows” project I
completed last year for citibank. Unfortunately, I cannot publish the full
inte...
my trip to Dalarne, Sweden
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I was pleased to get an invite from the University of Dalarne to do a
keynote at their Next Generation Learning conference tomorrow. Besides not
having bee...
Text messaging timeline
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Timeline How 160 characters changed the way we communicate 19 years ago …
by Mark O’Neill It’s hard to believe but it has been just over 19 years
since the...
Big data .. big trend
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[I spoke at the Lita Top Technology Trends at Dallas. I had a trend in reserve - big data - but did not use it. Here is something along the lines of what I m...
מקלדת Jumboard מגיעה לסופר-פארם!
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מי שהגיע לאירוע של טקונומי האחרון ודאי זוכר את Jumboard (היום: Webbe
World), חברה שפיתחה מקלדת לפעוטות שמטרתה לעזור להם להישתלב בעולם המשחקים
באינטרנט. המק...
My greatest triumph!
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Sorry. I can't resist. John Carson, a fellow runner from Canada, unearthed this photo from the archives of the Toronto Star. It's the finals of the 1500 mete...
In which I muse about the future of the Net
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Some European journalists recently asked me a different set of great
questions, this time about where the Net might be headed. The questions and
answers ar...
The Brigadoon Library!
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Techcrunch just reported an interesting development with Barnes and Noble's
Nook eReader, a feature called "Read in Store."
The idea is simple. If you've ...
Hiatus
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This blog is on hiatus, but you can follow me on Twitter and at DIY Drones, where I’m posting daily. I’ll use this blog for occasional longer pieces that don...
Are We Selling it to the Wrong People?
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Flickr Photo by Ilkka K00
I just got off the phone with a market researcher for a major (textbook)
publishing company, and we had a wonderful conversat...
Twitter interactive fiction
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When you sit in media symposiums or conferences a winning comment is always
that people need to see beyond the broadcast capabilities of Twitter and
use it...
My readers are actually users
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Continuing the pattern of readers adding value to books, not just consuming them, My Mind On Books has posted a webliography of Here Comes Everybody, pulling...
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