Zotero Group at Diigo (weekly)
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YouTube – SaganAppreciationSoc’s Channel
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A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
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“crime-control theater,”
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Religion-Flowchart_1.jpg (JPEG Image, 500×767 pixels) – Scaled (71%)
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A Writing Revolution § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
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Nearly everyone reads. Soon, nearly everyone will publish. Before 1455, books were handwritten, and it took a scribe a year to produce a Bible. Today, it takes only a minute to send a tweet or update a blog. Rates of authorship are increasing by historic orders of magnitude. Nearly universal authorship, like universal literacy before it, stands to reshape society by hastening the flow of information and making individuals more influential.
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Getting It Wrong: Surprising Tips on How to Learn: Scientific American
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Get It Wrong Before You Google to Learn It Better – Learning – Lifehacker
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We live in an era where the answer to almost any fact-based question is no further than a Google search away, but Scientific American highlights a study suggesting subjects forced to get something wrong before being told the answer learn it better.
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Was our oldest ancestor a proton-powered rock? – life – 19 October 2009 – New Scientist
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Timewarp: How your brain creates the fourth dimension – life – 21 October 2009 – New Scientist
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You will learn to love Google’s sorry music widget • The Register
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So the Google/Facebook service amounts to something you didn’t ask for, in a restricted format, which costs you money for something you can otherwise get it for free, powered by a proven market failure. All surrounded by some Wikicruft, which Google calls a ‘OneBox’ container.
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5 New Technologies That Will Change Everything – PC World
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USB 3.0
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USB 3.0 can shoot full-speed data in both directions at the same time,
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USB 3.0 is fast enough to allow uncompressed 1080p video
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turn computers into real charging stations
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Video Streaming Over Wi-Fi
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By 2012, two new protocols–802.11ac and 802.11ad–should be handling over-the-air data transmission at 1 gbps or faster.
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newly available 60GHz spectrum
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Unfortunately, the millimeter-long waves that make up 60GHz signals penetrate walls and furniture poorly,
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3D TV
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more immersive, more true-to-life experience, and substantively different from almost anything you’ve watched before.
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“Augmented Reality” in Mobile Devices
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Neal Stephenson’s book Snow Crash, “gargoyles” are freelance intelligence gatherers who have wired themselves to see (through goggles that annotate all of their experiences) a permanent overlay of data on top of the physical world.
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an application called Nearest Places, the names and locations of subway stops, parks, museums, restaurants, and other places of interest are shown on top of an iPhone’s video feed.
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Other prototype applications display
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HTML5
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HTML5 may do away with the need for audio, video, and interactive plug-ins.
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Website designers and Web app developers won’t have to deal with multiple incompatible formats and workarounds
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operating systems and browsers appear to be falling into line behind HTML5. Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Opera, and WebKit
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Growth of Social Media in Real Time : Hard Data | TECHTIFIED
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With information galore, we need news judgment — latimes.com
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JSTOR: The Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 44, No. 2 (Apr., 2001), pp. 219-237
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Okay, how BIG is Antarctica? Do you have a mental picture? No… on Twitpic
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WHOIS Search for Domain Registration Information | Network Solutions
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Technology Review: Tracking Devious Phishing Websites
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“flux,” allows a fake site
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Following your heart: Jobs with impact, ‘social capital’ gaining popularity – NWjobs
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Social capital – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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GENOCHOICE – Create Your Own Genetically Healthy Child Online!
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Fake websites and spoof websites; evaluating internet resources using false websites
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Mobile persuasion : 20 perspectives on the future of behavior change (Book, 2007) [WorldCat.org]
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danieltenner.com — What problems does Google Wave solve?
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It’s a nightmare to keep track of and collate all that feedback. Even giving the feedback is difficult sometimes: you have to quote the context and make sure your change is clearly outlined.
Google Wave resolves that by effectively integrating Etherpad’s features into the email client.
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Google Wave solves that by giving exactly the same view to everyone, regardless of when they’ve been added.
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Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man | Video on TED.com
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When Twitter Says Good Morning Around the World | FlowingData
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YouTube – Swine flu alert! News/Death ratio: 8176
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How to Critique a Journal Article
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Find Open Source Alternatives to commercial software | Open Source Alternative – osalt.com
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learning • ingenuity • research • policy • design • technology • delight • (+ sailing!)
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YouTube – Bonk, Diigo Groups, Smart History and Postscripts
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chicagopublicmedia.net – information on chicagopublicmedia.net
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Locus Online Features: Cory Doctorow: Think Like a Dandelion
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Athabasca University Press – The Theory and Practice of Online Learning
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Smarthistory, a multimedia web-book about art: discussing Technology Workflow
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