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Naval Drones
From Schneier on Security

Naval Drones

With all the talk about airborne drones like the Predator, it's easy to forget that drones can be in the water as well. Meet the Common Unmanned Surface Vessel...

Interesting Links 7 May 2012
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 7 May 2012

I didn

Making Hybrid PDFs
From Wild WebMink

Making Hybrid PDFs

It’s easy with LibreOffice. Send people attachments you can be sure they can view, but

Mobile no Longer Optional for Visualization
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mobile no Longer Optional for Visualization

Notes In Znet:  I largely agree.   Tablets have become the new normal for viz.  I don't think I would acquire a visualization application that I could not display...

Mind Mapping Expertise
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mind Mapping Expertise

From the Biggerplate mind mapping library blog:   " ... Liam meets mapping expert Philippe Boukobza: Last week I was extremely fortunate to have the opportunity...

Half Dome Sunset
From Wild WebMink

Half Dome Sunset

Reblogged from The Global Mink: Despite the crowds who gather to share the experience, watching the sun set and the shadow of the Sierras pass across the face of...

Front Line Workers Need to Innovate
From The Eponymous Pickle

Front Line Workers Need to Innovate

I much agree. It is ultimately essential.  But in real life experience the effort is often seen as wasting time.   Real rewards for it are often slow in coming....

Data Philosophy vs Science
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Philosophy vs Science

In data management.   More akin to social science versus physics.   There is science involved, but it is of the statistical rather than the precise law kind.  ...

Orange Ads Work Better on Facebook
From The Eponymous Pickle

Orange Ads Work Better on Facebook

Tailoring ad effectiveness.   Makes sense to look at this analytically.Not Unlike Continual Improvement Processes in Factories, CPG Giant Taps Data to Constantly...

The false question of attention economics
From Putting People First

The false question of attention economics

An older post, but I missed it. So here it is, more than two years after it was published by Stowe Boyd: “A few posts have emerged recently that recapitulate the...

Customer experience: The natural ally for UX in business
From Putting People First

Customer experience: The natural ally for UX in business

In a blog post (which is itself a paraphrased transcript of his talk at the Polish IA Summit 2012), Peter Bogaards talks about the relationship between user experience...

User experience is strategy, not design
From Putting People First

User experience is strategy, not design

Peter Merholz, VP of experience design at Inflection (and founder of Adaptive Path), thinks there is no such thing as a UX design profession. User experience is...

Ubuntu for Android
From Wild WebMink

Ubuntu for Android

In case you missed it in the article yesterday (I know plenty of people don’t click through!), here is the very simple video I made of Ubuntu for Android in action...

Mobile Clorox
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mobile Clorox

Clorox meets moms in the aisles with smartphones.  Emarketer article about how the CPG company is using mobile marketing.   ' ...  "We are always asking: Is this...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Bicycle Parking Sculpture
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Bicycle Parking Sculpture

Neat. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.

Tampon-Shaped USB Drive
From Schneier on Security

Tampon-Shaped USB Drive

This vendor is selling a tampon-shaped USB drive. Although it's less secure now that there are blog posts about it.

Membership Survey Contest Winners
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Membership Survey Contest Winners

Congratulations to the winners of our 2012 membership survey: - Daniel Loeb, from Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada - Joanna Baniaga, Mililani, Hawaii, USA Our winners...

Two Examples of Storytelling to Teach Computer Science
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Two Examples of Storytelling to Teach Computer Science

Here are two delightful examples of using storytelling to teach computer science.  These are traditional stories to be read on their own.  They differs from our...

From Computational Complexity

Is it well known that we need to redefine well known?

A LONG time (so long ago I was a guest poster, not a co-blogger) I posted about how calling things that are on You-Tube rare is odd since ITS ON YOU-TUBE! ANYONE...

Image Analysis Game
From The Eponymous Pickle

Image Analysis Game

A crowd-sourced image analysis game.    I worked on several image analysis systems that had crowd-sourced and gaming components, so the details here are interesting...
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