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Blog Move
From Wild WebMink

Blog Move

With the change from Sun in the UK almost complete, I've decided to move my blog. Please adjust your feed, and read on over at Wild Webmink.

Superbowl Ad Analyses
From The Eponymous Pickle

Superbowl Ad Analyses

Sands Research sends along complete rankings and background from their yearly Superbowl Ad study. " ... Leading neuromarketing firm Sands Research announced today...

Want a Job?  Major in CS.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Want a Job? Major in CS.

Carolyn Duffy Marsan writes in Network World that undergraduate enrollments in computer science are rising significantly at some of the nation’s large CS departments...

In-Store Food Preparation
From The Eponymous Pickle

In-Store Food Preparation

Some time ago I mentioned the increasing dive for in-store automatic preparation of foods, here in the Chicago Sun Times, the manufacture of snack chips in the....

Empowering Parents & Protecting Children in an Evolving Media Landscape
From Apophenia

Empowering Parents & Protecting Children in an Evolving Media Landscape

The FCC published a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) on the important topic of empowering parents and protecting youth in an era of an evolving media landscape.

Convergence of BI and BPM Examined
From The Eponymous Pickle

Convergence of BI and BPM Examined

Holger Kisker in the Forrester blog writes about the convergence of business intelligence and business process management. ' ... When business processes finally...

Remotely Spying on Kids with School Laptops
From Schneier on Security

Remotely Spying on Kids with School Laptops

It's a really creepy story. A school issues laptops to students, and then remotely and surreptitiously turns on the camera. (Here's the lawsuit.) This is anLower...

Millennials
From Putting People First

Millennials

This report on the values, attitudes, behaviors and demographic characteristics of the Millennial generation was prepared by the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan...

Google
From Putting People First

Google

Luca De Biase, the journalist I translated this morning, continues to add interesting commentary: Excerpts from this post (translated into English): “The Italian...

links for 2010-02-24
From Wild WebMink

links for 2010-02-24

When using open source makes you an enemy of the state Remember I mentioned the "Special 301" list yesterday, that US corporations...

NSA Historical Documents
From Schneier on Security

NSA Historical Documents

Just declassified: "A Reference Guide to Selected Historical Documents Relating to the National Security Agency/Central Security Service, 1931

Google Video: Italian law is complicating the world
From Putting People First

Google Video: Italian law is complicating the world

This Italian reflection on the Italian Google sentence, written by journalist Luca De Biase (in charge of the N

Small Basic is Moving And Other Resources
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Small Basic is Moving And Other Resources

Small Basic is not part of the Beginning Developer Learning Center. Looks like the whole landing page for the BDLC has been updated as well. Check out the Kids

The Design of Procter and Gamble
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Design of Procter and Gamble

I have been reading The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage by Roger L. Martin of the Rotman School of Management in Toronto...

Guest Post from David Karger
From My Biased Coin

Guest Post from David Karger

Continuing from my last "controversial" post, David Karger offered the following long comment, turned into a guest post:------------I wanted to post a comment on...

Simplicity is King
From The Eponymous Pickle

Simplicity is King

Simplicity is the mother of adoption, by Tim McLaughlin. Could not agree more.-

The Doghouse: Demiurge Consulting
From Schneier on Security

The Doghouse: Demiurge Consulting

They claim to be "one of the nation's only and most respected security and intelligence providers" -- I've never heard of them -- but their blog consists entirely...

Mass Localism
From Putting People First

Mass Localism

A new report by NESTA, the UK

Smartphone Scanning: Beyond Barcodes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smartphone Scanning: Beyond Barcodes

I have been following and testing uses of smartphones as sensors. The obvious connection is using the ubiquitous barcodes to identify things in their environments...

Brain Systems behind General Intelligence
From The Eponymous Pickle

Brain Systems behind General Intelligence

In Science Daily, good overview of work at Caltech on the brain systems that affect general intelligence. The study shows that general intelligence is not localized...
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