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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Do Web Sites Matter?
From Paul Gillin's Social Media Blog: Why Web Sites don't matter. He has some interesting points, but I disagree. I don't always want to engage with someone or...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Faith in 140 Characters
In the NYT, some examples of religious groups using Twitter. They make an odd kind of implied assumption that faiths are different from other interactions among...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Pedagogy, innovation and convenience
Organizing learning around courses implies the creation of groups and a tight control by professors.
From Return 42;
Notification Message Dispatch for MooTools
If someone would ask me about what my favorite feature of Apple's Cocoa framework is, I would probably respond with NSNotificationCenter. In my opinion, it is incredibly...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-07-15
International Free and Open Source Software Law Review A good development - peer reviewed, web delivered, free of charge. I'llFOSS...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SocialText Deploys Microblogging
Socialtext, which I have used inside the enterprise for wiki implementations, has now deployed a microblogging appliance capability, this is unbundled from their...
From Putting People First
For Uganda
In a country where people don’t have electricity, much less Internet access, the Grameen Foundation partners with Google to relay information through mobile phones...
From Putting People First
The digital age of rights
The digitally deprived have rights too, says BBC News columnist Bill Thompson, who is quite upset about a new French law: “If it is unacceptable to cut people off...
From Putting People First
What you don
Olga Morawczynski, a doctoral candidate at the University of Edinburgh and has spent more than a year investigating customer adoption and usage in both urban and...
From Putting People First
danah boyd on new habits in a connected world
danah boyd, a researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a Fellow at the Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and Society, got incensed at an Italian...
From Putting People First
Personal transformations in the Internet Age
In a BoingBoing guest blog, Marina Gorbis, executive director of the Institute for the Future, discusses the personal transformations everyone goes through as they...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Fulfilling Expectations at Our Annual Conference/Symposium
One of the things I love best and hate the most about my job is reviewing at the evaluations for our annual conference. I love it because it is so clear from the...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Washington Update, Vol. 13.6 (July 14, 2009)
CONTENTS [1] Newsletter Highlights [2] USACM Completes Reorganization [3] USACM Members Testify on Cybersecurity [4] USACM Co-Chair Outlines Mechanics of Behavioral...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tracking Makes Life Easier
In AdAge, an article that makes the case that tracking benefits consumers and makes online life easier by not repeating the same message over and over. This is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Online Coupons at Safeway
Safeway has now expanded the use of online coupons to all of its stores. More evidence of the movement from paper to the prevalence of online promotions.
From Putting People First
Playful innovation and simplicity by Philips
In an exploration into how games can add value to the innovation process, Philips Design has created
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-07-14
Cats 'exploit' humans by purring More scientific research which tells us what we would already know if we weren't so busy anthropomorphising...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM