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• Suicidal Teens Reach Out Through Social Media, Not Suicide Hotlines | Psych Central News | Things I grab, motley collection

  New research shows that teens and young adults are frequently using social networking sites and mobile technology to express suicidal thoughts and intentions as well as to reach out for help. The findings suggest that suicide prevention and int…

• Smartphones Mean You Will No Longer Have to Memorize Facts: Scientific American | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from Tim Boileau, Ph.D.: See on Scoop.it – aect Have smartphones in every pocket made memorization obsolete? Tim Boileau’s insight: The phone in your pocket is now a performance suppotot tool. See on http://www.scientificamerican.com Re…

• European Commission and Penguin finally wrap things up in Apple ebook pricing case | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from GigaOM: Over six months after the European Commission reached an ebook pricing settlement with four publishers and Apple (s AAPL), the EC has approved a similar settlement with Penguin. Penguin, which was trying to clear the deck…

• Bonjour, America! | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT The French Canadian immigration experience shows that our obsession with border security is inconsistent with our history, undermines our economic vitality and is likely to fail. pler…

• Journalism May Be Collapsing, But With Pressfolios, At Least You Can Build A Nice Portfolio | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from TechCrunch: If you’re a working journalist (or even an aspiring one), you’re probably getting tired of hearing that it’s important to build your personal brand. Now, leaving aside the obnoxiousness of the phrase “personal brand,”…

• Here are some real problems for Google to solve while it’s tinkering with Gmail | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from VentureBeat: Google’s new tabbed Gmail layout has been rolling out for a while now. I was finally subjected to it. I hate hate hate it. (Disclosure: I own Google stock.) The goal of the new Gmail tabs is admirable: To make it ea…

• Company that wants to be an “online Harvard” to get accreditation | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from GigaOM: Minerva Project, a startup aspiring to build an online Ivy League-caliber university from scratch, just checked a major item off its to-do list. On Wednesday, the company plans to announce a partnership with the Claremont…

• Google Updates Cloud Storage With Faster Uploads, Auto-Delete And Regional Buckets | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from TechCrunch: Google today announced three new features for its Cloud Storage service that brings it closer to feature parity with Amazon’s Web Services (AWS). Just like AWS’s S3, Google’s Cloud Storage now offers Object Lifecycle …

• Google Updates Cloud Storage With Faster Uploads, Auto-Delete And Regional Buckets | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from TechCrunch: Google today announced three new features for its Cloud Storage service that brings it closer to feature parity with Amazon’s Web Services (AWS). Just like AWS’s S3, Google’s Cloud Storage now offers Object Lifecycle …

• Today’s enterprise collaboration landscape: Cloudy, social, mobile | ZDNet | Things I grab, motley collection

  For example, much has been made of the likely underperformance of a particularly high-profile type of collaboration tool — enterprise social networks (ESNs) — if rollout is conducted without the requisite supporting behavioral, cultural, and pro…

• Full Employment Versus Jobless Growth « Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy | Things I grab, motley collection

  Money should be a public utility (a unit of account, a store of value, and a medium of exchange), not an instrument by which banks extort unnecessary interest payment from the public — like a private toll booth on a public road. Cheap labor and…

• Save Money by Collecting Accomplishments Instead of Items | Things I grab, motley collection

  There’s nothing wrong with being a collector, but if the items you collect can be consumed, like books, movies, or games, you can save space and money by tracking the things you’ve completed, rather than filling your home with a physical collect…

• MBank And The Future Of Responsive Banking | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from TechCrunch: I’m not a huge fan of banks and when senior director Michal Panowicz approached me about mBank my interest was pigued. How could a banking spin-off of BRE Bank and founded in 2000 create one of the coolest, most high-…

• ‘Email Courtesy of My Idea Pipe’ | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT Overthinking and overexplaining the variations people use on “Sent from my iPhone”     plerudulier‘s insight: This being the Summer season, period during which most people are on vac…

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• Hey, health and fitness geeks: here are 5 crowdfunding campaigns worth following | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from GigaOM: If you want a peek at the future of health and fitness, look no further than the internet’s biggest crowdfunding sites. Every few weeks, a startup seems to be pitching a new gadget or service for tracking your activity, m…

• Marine ecology: Welcome to the plastisphere | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT A new world in the making SINCE 2008 geologists have been mulling over the idea of the Anthropocene, a proposed new epoch in the history of the Earth that would encompass the years in …

• In Head-Hunting, Big Data May Not Be Such a Big Deal – NYTimes.com | Things I grab, motley collection

  In terms of leadership, success is very dependent on the context. What works at Google or G.E. or Goldman Sachs is not going to be the right answer for everyone. I don’t think you’ll ever replace human judgment and human inspiration and creativit…

• Why Citizen Developers Are The Future Of Programming – ReadWrite | Things I grab, motley collection

  If you ever wondered what would scare the bejeezus out of a university’s computer science department, try this: In June, Google revealed that it no longer considers GPA scores as a hiring criteria. “One of the things we’ve seen from all our dat…

• Google logic: why Google does the things it does the way it does | Technology | guardian.co.uk | Things I grab, motley collection

  A favourite pastime among people who watch the tech industry is trying to figure out why Google does things. The Verge was downright plaintive about it the other day, and I get the question frequently from financial analysts and reporters. But t…

• Why Microsoft’s reorganization closes the books on an era of computing | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from GigaOM: Nothing ever stays the same. On more than one occasion, it has taken Microsoft, one of the most important factors behind the rise of the technology industry, years to understand that. But with this week’s sweeping reorgan…

• The story of inequality | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from Michael Roberts Blog: The 15th conference of the Association of Heterodox Economists took place last week.  The keynote theme of this gathering of economists who are not of the mainstream was inequality.  The world’s greatest eco…

• Why Behavior Change Apps Fail To Change Behavior | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from TechCrunch: Editor’s Note: Nir Eyal writes about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business at NirAndFar.com. Follow him @nireyal. Imagine walking into a busy mall when someone approaches you with an open hand. “Wo…

• There’s a Fly in My Tweets | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT The rise of social media and the field of data science can provide powerful tools to answer public-health questions. plerudulier‘s insight: Researchers have been striving for generat…

• Meeting and Exceeding Student Expectations of Teachers: A Way to Achieve “Good” Teaching | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Go into most public school classrooms and you will see a sign, usually in the front of the classroom, listing what the teacher expects of students in classroom behavior. Exper…

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• Apple controversy lays bare complex Irish tax web | Reuters | Things I grab, motley collection

  (Reuters) – Occupying a single floor of a three-storey building in a suburban Dublin office park, Western Union’s offices are notably modest for the international headquarters of the world’s largest money transfer firm. The set-up is typical of…

• How Did Dropbox Scale To 175M Users? A Former Engineer Details The Early Days | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from TechCrunch: Ladies and Gentlemen, we interrupt our normal programming about crazy entrepreneurs and even crazier VCs to bring you a little learning from the world of Engineering. Remember that? Recently Dropbox was in the news fo…

• Your App Is Slow Because Our World Is Ending | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from TechCrunch: The meatiest article I ran across on the Internet this week was also–maybe–a harbinger of doom for life as we know it. I mean Drew Crawford’s superb piece Why mobile web apps are slow. It’s long, and somewhat dense,…

• Where The Jobs Are (And Where They Aren’t), In 1 Graph : Planet Money : NPR | Things I grab, motley collection

  It’s been five and a half years since the recession started, and four years since the recovery began. It’s been a brutal time for the U.S. job market (obviously), and the picture is still pretty bleak. But when you look at individual industries…

• Amazon cuts cloud prices up to 80% (your move, Google & Microsoft) | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from VentureBeat: There is a very definite price war in cloud services going on right now. Today, Amazon announced massive price cuts of up to 80 percent on dedicated servers in its Elastic Cloud (EC2) virtual private cloud offering,…

• Without the option of privacy, we are lost | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from GigaOM: Privacy is a wonderful and complex thing. To my mind, it should operate on a sliding scale under the individual’s control: total privacy for those who want to research information for themselves or communicate in confiden…

• Samsung overtakes Apple for first time in global smartphone web usage | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from 9to5Google: Samsung’s share of smartphone-based web-browsing has increased substantially in the last year, reports StatCounter, edging just ahead of Apple for the first time. The big winner over the year has been Samsung, which,…

• In Battle Against H.I.V., Using Facebook and Twitter – NYTimes.com | Things I grab, motley collection

  The online banter was too steamy to ignore. Gregory Johnson, a soft-spoken young man using the screen name “Adonis,” talked up sex to several hundred of his closest Facebook friends this spring. Once he had their attention, he sent a racy snaps…

• Why learn a foreign language? Benefits of bilingualism – Telegraph | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT Learning a foreign language is more than just a boost to your CV or handy for travelling. It will make you smarter, more decisive and even better at English, says Anne Merritt. plerud…

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Weekly blog posts (weekly)

• The Rise Of The Ephemeralnet | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT In the aftermath of the dot-com crash, a new era for the web began to take hold – a turning point whose seismic shift was hyped under the moniker “Web 2.0.” The concept referred to the…

• Queuing: Is it really the British way? | Things I grab, motley collection

  Queuing, it’s what the British are renowned for doing – and doing very well. Better than anyone else in the world, if reputation is to be believed. Take the Wimbledon queue. It’s held up as a supreme example of Britain’s prowess when it comes …

• Ben Jonson begins Twitter travel journal, rather late | Things I grab, motley collection

  Jacobean playwright and poet Ben Jonson is the latest author to be brought back to life and onto Twitter. The day-to-day happenings on a public progress made by Jonson from London to Scotland in July 1618 will be brought to modern readers on @B…

• Villes sans limite, retour d’expérience – Innovation – Les clés de demain – Le Monde.fr / IBM | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Pour ne pas mélanger les langues ni les genres Il y a presque deux ans nous avons présenté ici le concept de notre projet « Villes sans limite », un projet d’urbanisme collaboratif. A l’époque, les avis étaient plutôt mitigés. …

• A Hologram For Medical Students Brings The Human Body To Life | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT Students struggle to focus for more than 20 to 30 minutes at a time, studies show. Beyond that, their ability to internalize information drops dramatically. But could technology help k…

• Le Big Data au service de l’humanité | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT Le Big Data n’est plus réservé aux seuls secteurs de l’industrie et du commerce : l’association DataKind, fondée à New-York par Jake Porway, applique les sciences des données à l’human…

• World’s largest offshore windfarm opens in Thames estuary | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT David Cameron hails ‘great day for Britain’ at opening of London Array, which will power 470,000 homes With enough capacity to power two-thirds of the homes in Kent, the 175 turbines r…

• How to build a business around data in 7 easy steps, explained with food | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from GigaOM: Food and data, it turns out, have a lot in common. Eating a meal is easy, and so is consuming pre-prepared data. But anyone who has ever had to cook a meal from scratch or build a big, usable database probably has a bette…

• How Energy Consumption Has Changed Since 1776 | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT The U.S. Energy Information Administration reviews big changes in energy use since the Declaration of Independence. It’s easy to forget just how recently we started using fossil fuels …

• Que ReFaire ? Le “manifeste” des manifestes | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Pour ne pas mélanger les langues ni les genres Dans leurs ateliers, Fab Labs, Techshops et autres Hackerspaces, les “nouveaux artisans”, makers, DIYers, bricoleurs du XXIe siècle inventent, transforment, personnalisent, réparen…

• Portrait of the modern knowledge worker | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from Agile KM for me… and you?: The concept of ‘knowledge worker’ which Peter Drucker coined in 1959, is perhaps not so clear (as shown again in a recent LinkedIn discussion – access potentially limited) and can be understood at lea…

• We Need a Fixer (Not Just a Maker) Movement [Wired.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT The ‘maker movement’ is a grassroots success story, refueling interest in engineering and giving kids practical skills with tools. But now we need something new. plerudulier‘s insight…

• Ways to prevent costly offshoring mistakes | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT Contracting out work to foreign companies can make sense — but offshoring isn’t always a smart idea. Here are four ways to help you make the right choice. plerudulier‘s insight: With…

• Frank Rich on Edward Snowden, Domestic Surveillance, and When Privacy Jumped the Shark — New York Magazine | Things I grab, motley collection

  … The NSA scandal didn’t even burn bright enough to earn the distinction of a “-gate” suffix. Though Americans were being told in no uncertain terms that their government was spying on them, it quickly became evident that, for all the tumult in …

• Europe’s Truths – NYTimes.com | Things I grab, motley collection

  ELOUNDA, Greece — “The unexamined life is not worth living,” said Socrates. Pronounced of a Cretan summer evening in an outdoor theater, with a breeze wafting through the olive groves, the thought is doubly arresting — perhaps because it is evid…

• Will a Certification Really Help Me Get a Better Job? | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT Dear Lifehacker, I’m thinking about switching jobs, but it’ll be difficult for me to get a lot of work experience before I apply. I was thinking about getting a certification in my new…

• LLOYD COLE ou quand Droopy fait de la résistance | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Pour ne pas mélanger les langues ni les genres Mais avant l’après, il y eu l’avant. Dire que ça n’a pas du être facile tous les jours pour Lloyd est un doux euphémisme qui pourrait presque prendre des airs de fardeau. plerudul…

• Innovation : la nouvelle carte du monde des dépots de brevets | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Pour ne pas mélanger les langues ni les genres Si les pays de l’OCDE dominent encore l’activité brevets, certaines économies émergentes, la Chine en tête plerudulier‘s insight: Prenant un angle européen, notamment afin d’éval…

• Economic Rebalancing Acts | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT A phrase often heard, especially in leftist circles, is that the 2008 crisis has given us an opportunity to “rebalance the economy,” with production for profit yielding to production f…

• Guide To Proper Social Media Etiquette | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT If you’re like me, you act differently on different social networks. It’s important to remember the proper social media etiquette that you should follow while sharing online. plerudul…

• How online courses will affect business degrees | Things I grab, motley collection

  The emergence and proliferation of massive open online courses over the past 12 months presents an interesting array of threats and opportunities for Australia’s postgraduate business and management educators. There is no simple answer to the q…

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