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September 2010 Blog Posts (7)

Web 2.0 Breaches Cost Businesses $1.1 Billion

While conceding its value to corporate initiatives, many business professionals have voiced their concerns about security threats associated with Web 2.0. This concern is perhaps with good reason, since more than 60% of those surveyed reported losses associated with Web 2.0 averaging $2 million, a new McAfee-commissioned study found.

One main reason for these breaches, which collectively totaled $1.1 billion, was employee use of social media, according to the report, which was…

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Added by Reid Cornwell on September 28, 2010 at 7:28am — No Comments

A Long Way to Go On Educationa Reform : Arne Duncan Secretary of Education

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Added by Reid Cornwell on September 27, 2010 at 11:50am — No Comments

James Paul Gee on Grading with Games

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Added by Reid Cornwell on September 27, 2010 at 11:29am — No Comments

Beyond the ‘dazzling light’: from dreams of transcendence to the ‘remediation’ of urban life: Stephen Graham

A Research Manifesto

The so-called ‘information society’ is an increasingly urban society. The ‘digital age’ is an age which is dominated by cities and metropolitan regions to an extent that is unprecedented in human history. However, up until the late 1990s, the complex links between cities and electronic communications generated a curiously scarce literature. Since their inception, urban studies, policy and planning tended to neglect electronic… Continue

Added by Reid Cornwell on September 22, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments

The Soundbite University: 60 Years of University News Coverage: Soundbite University

The Soundbite University is a large-scale study conducted by Kalev Leetaru and Dr. Paul Magelli at the University of Illinois to explore the broader changes in how higher education has been covered in the national press over the last 60 years. More than 18 million documents comprising the entire run of the New…

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Added by Reid Cornwell on September 21, 2010 at 8:25am — No Comments

The Relationship Revolution

I thought members of the Center for Internet Research would appreciate this article. I interviewed many, many people for it, including Reid Cornwell. I think you'll like it:

http://www.psychotherapynetworker.org/magazine/currentissue/1094-the-relationship-revolution

And if you do, please spread the word. I talk about "The Making of The Relationship Revolution" on my own… Continue

Added by Melinda Blau on September 19, 2010 at 12:06pm — 1 Comment

Open Notebook Science: Interview with Jean-Claude Bradley

Jean-Claude Bradley is an organic chemist at Drexel University in Philadelphia. As with most scientists, Bradley used to be very secretive. He kept his research under wraps until publication and frequently applied for patents on his work in nanotechnology and gene therapy. …

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Added by Richard Poynder on September 1, 2010 at 7:26am — No Comments