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Apps and Identity - The New Lifestyle

In the much-publicized, much-discussed article titled "The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet." in the September 2010 issue of "Wired" magazine, co-author editor-in-chief Chris Anderson writes, "[O]ur tolerance for the delirious chaos of infinite competition finds…

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Added by Reid Cornwell on August 22, 2010 at 12:07pm — No Comments

A Review of Verizon and Google's Net Neutrality Proposal: Legislative Analysis - Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

Efforts to protect net neutrality that involve government regulation have always faced one fundamental obstacle: the substantial danger that the regulators will cause more harm than good for the Internet. The worst case scenario would be that, in allowing the FCC to regulate the Internet, we open the door for big business, Hollywood and the indecency police to exert even more influence on the Net than they do now.

On Monday, Google and Verizon proposed a new legislative framework for…

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Added by Reid Cornwell on August 11, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

Web Re(Design): Steve Kolowich

A cartoon ridiculing the tone-deaf design of many college home pages, published on July 30 week on the website xkcd and circulated widely in social media circles and on campuses, has highlighted the frustration many people have with what they consider to be poorly designed college websites.

As the social media sphere chorused a resounding "amen," marketing experts weighed in: college home pages have become clogged with useless objects such as mission statements, letters from deans,…

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Added by Reid Cornwell on August 11, 2010 at 7:00am — No Comments

Google and Verizon Joint Net Neutrality Policy

WASHINGTON, August 9, 2010- Google and Verizon have announced a joint statement of principles on network neutrality and hosted a conference call Monday to outline their effort to the press. Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg announced that this new policy calls for an open and transparent wireline internet with special conditions given to the “burgeoning wireless market.”



This announcement comes after a week of speculation that Google would receive priority… Continue

Added by Reid Cornwell on August 10, 2010 at 11:54am — No Comments

The First Church of Robotics: By JARON LANIER

THE news of the day often includes an item about some development in artificial intelligence: a machine that smiles, a program that can predict human tastes in mates or music, a robot that teaches foreign languages to children. This constant stream of stories suggests that machines are becoming smart and autonomous, a new form of life, and that we should think of them as fellow creatures instead of as tools. But such conclusions aren’t just… Continue

Added by Reid Cornwell on August 9, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age

At Rhode Island College, a freshman copied and pasted from a Web site’s frequently asked questions page about homelessness — and did not think he needed to credit a source in his assignment because the page did not include author information.



At DePaul University, the tip-off to one student’s copying was the purple shade of several paragraphs he had lifted from the Web; when confronted by a writing tutor his professor had sent him to, he was not defensive — he just wanted to know how… Continue

Added by Reid Cornwell on August 8, 2010 at 12:00pm — No Comments

By The Numbers: New Employment Statistics from the 2008 Business R&D and Inn ovation Survey - NSF

Companies located in the United States that performed or funded research and development domestically or overseas employed an estimated 27.1 million workers worldwide in 2008 (table 1). R&D employees (employees who perform or directly support R&D activities) accounted for 1.9 million, or 7.1%, of this worldwide employment. The domestic employment of these companies totaled 18.5 million workers, including 1.5 million domestic R&D employees. 2 Thus, domestic R&D… Continue

Added by Reid Cornwell on August 5, 2010 at 11:02am — No Comments

Request for information

To all,

The membership in this blog now exceeds 900. Everyone was invited or requested membership. I am very proud of this group and am impressed by the stature both individually and collectively. I need to know if a significant number of you wish to see it continue. Based on this input, I am going to make a decision as to the continuance of this resource. Whether you recommend the continuance or… Continue

Added by Reid Cornwell on August 2, 2010 at 8:30am — No Comments

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