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• Greek community creates an off-the-grid Internet | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT Communities around the world are building their own parallel Internets to stay out of reach of governments and major corporations. plerudulier‘s insight: “It’s like a whole other web…

• Loneliness Can Kill You. Don’t Let It. | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT Social isolation kills more people than obesity does—and it’s just as stigmatized. In a society that judges you based on how expansive your social networks appear, loneliness is diffic…

• Germany Profiting from Euro Crisis Through Low Interest Rates – SPIEGEL ONLINE | Things I grab, motley collection

  Germany is profiting from the debt crisis by saving billions of euros in interest on its government debt, which has enjoyed a steep drop in yields due to strong demand from investors seeking a safe haven. According to figures made available by …

• Find Time To Reflect | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT Ever since childhood I have found this moment of the year – those final weeks of August before returning to school or a job – to be my most reflective. The days tend to be longer and …

• Higher education: The attack of the MOOCs | The Economist | Things I grab, motley collection

  DOTCOM mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive …

• Guardian releases picture of mangled computer as reports say David Cameron ordered his cabinet secretary to oversee destruction | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from National Post | News: The Guardian has released images of a mangled computer hacked to pieces in the newspaper’s basement under the supervision of British secret agents as it was revealed the “shadowy figure” that demanded the de…

• ▶ Gov.uk: how geeks opened up government – YouTube | Things I grab, motley collection

  via ▶ Gov.uk: how geeks opened up government – YouTube.

  Filed under: curation Tagged: Government, UK

• Ultrasonic anemometer for an absurdly accurate weather station | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from Hack a Day: With his meteorological interests, builds weather stations. Temperature and humidity sensors are a dime a dozen, but with his DIY ingenuity, has built some very interesting and complicated devices. The latest of which…

• U.K. Ordered Guardian to Destroy Snowden Files Because Its Servers Weren’t Secure | Threat Level | Wired.com | Things I grab, motley collection

  It’s the kind of justification that only a government agency could make. After NSA insider Edward Snowden absconded with thousands of sensitive U.S. government documents from unsecured NSA servers earlier this year and gave them to the Guardian…

• How Social Media Is Changing the Dying Process | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT Overcoming a culture of youth; tweeting death; understanding life      plerudulier‘s insight: The consensus seems to be that as social media-savvy generations age, death will creep i…

• Requests to Twitter for content removal rising sharply | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT Twitter’s latest Transparency Report points to a considerable increase in the number of official requests for content removal and account information. plerudulier‘s insight: The two …

• Let’s stop the NSA before it destroys the cloud industry | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from VentureBeat: Most people don’t seem to care much whether the government is spying on them. For these people, the constant drumbeat of revelations about the National Security Agency’s apparently limitless and nearly unfettered ca…

• Big Brother Isn’t A Reason For Journalists To Quit The Internet | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from TechCrunch: In fear of Big Brother, award-winning technology law blog, Groklaw, has decided to shut down. TechCrunch, however, will not be following its lead. There is always a risk that an abusive government agent may try to int…

• ‘Sorry for breaking your privacy’: Programmer hacks Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page to expose security bug | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from National Post | News: After discovering a privacy bug on Facebook, unemployed Palestinian programmer Khalil Shreateh said he just wanted to collect the traditional $500 bounty the social network giant offers to those who voluntar…

• Disruptions: Texting Your Feelings, Symbol by Symbol | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT Emoji icons can be baffling to American adults who, whether they realize it or not, are taking their social cues from Japanese teenagers. plerudulier‘s insight: I recently had to sit…

• Empathy and Leadership – Leadership Training | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – A New Society, a new education! Empathy is the ability to identify and understand another’s situation, feelings, and motives. Find out why this is so important in the workplace.   Empathy is also particularly critical to lead…

• Master’s Degree Is New Frontier of Study Online | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT The master’s degree offered by the Georgia Institute of Technology through massive open online courses has the potential to disrupt higher education. plerudulier‘s insight: From thei…

• A provocative column on Georgia Tech’s $7,000 MS in computer science | Things I grab, motley collection

  Astute industry analyst Robert Cringely says that Georgia Tech’s $7,000 online MS in computer science is watered down, will cheapen the Georgia Tech brand, will earn Georgia Tech a lot of money, and may be the future of education. The self-pace…

• What’s Lost When Everything Is Recorded – NYTimes.com | Things I grab, motley collection

  While we fret about losing privacy and other dangers of the digital revolution, one sad change is happening with little notice: Our technology is stealing the romance of old conversations, that quaint notion that some things are best forgotten. …

• I went to Oxford. So why am I so angry about it? | Carole Cadwalladr | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT The way Oxbridge operates leads to ever more unfairness and inequality If Britain was truly a meritocratic country and elitism didn’t exist, I very much doubt that it would be my phot…

• How LinkedIn Became A Wall Street Juggernaut | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from TechCrunch: Glenn Solomon is a Partner with GGV Capital. Some of his recent investments include Pandora, Successfactors, Isilon, Domo, Square, Zendesk, Quinstreet and Nimble Storage. His personal blog, focused on growth stage ent…

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• Employee Retention Now a Big Issue: Why the Tide has Turned | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT I can tell the economy is recovering: we’re suddenly seeing companies tell us that “employee retention” has become a critical issue. Let me give you some research-based perspectives on…

• Hanging Out at the E-Mall – NYTimes.com | Things I grab, motley collection

  Shopping online is easier than shopping in a mall — as long as you know exactly what you want to buy. The problem comes when you don’t know what you want. More Tech CoverageNews from the technology industry, including start-ups, the Internet, en…

• ENOUGH SAID: Official HD Trailer | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT A divorced and single parent, Eva (Julia Louis Dreyfus) spends her days enjoying work as a masseuse but dreading her daughter’s impending departure for … plerudulier‘s insight: I am …

• Quick Tips To Better Care for Introverts and Extroverts – The Buffer Blog | Things I grab, motley collection

  Here is something that hit me recently: For a long time I had a certain idea about what makes an introvert or an extrovert. I had always thought that it works something like this: Extroversion relates to how outgoing someone is Introversion is…

• ‘Think local, hack global’: Code for India wants hackers to save the world | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from VentureBeat: Karl Mehta is launching a non-profit to get the tech industry involved in solving the world’s most pressing problems. Code for India (CFI) is a global community of software engineers who are developing tools to addr…

• After Initially Locking Down Funds, PayPal Relents And Gives GlassUp Access To Indiegogo Cash | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from TechCrunch: The GlassUp, an ambitious Indiegogo project that wanted to take the concept of Glass and make it more about passive consumption of content than about privacy-treading recording, video and photography, was in danger of…

• Three Text Messages That Are Changing Africa | Lex Paulson | Things I grab, motley collection

  As President Obama traveled to Africa earlier this summer, his administration heralded the power of geeks to reshape America’s approach to global poverty. Rather than hand out money to corrupt governments or rely on creaky international bureaucr…

• My job, if I’d imagine it ideally | Mon travail, si je l’imaginais idéalement | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT Of course I’m not fantasising anything that would not be realistic – if only because last I checked I wasn’t even close to looking like L.Evangelista⊃1; – only what one can truly belie…

• If my mother-in-law can use Ubuntu Linux, anyone can | ZDNet | Things I grab, motley collection

  One of the great Linux desktop myths is that it’s hard to use. People still think that you need to be some kind of mad computer wizard to use Linux. What nonsense. Desktop Linux has been as easy to use as any of the mainstream desktop operating …

• No, Craigslist is not responsible for the death of newspapers | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from GigaOM: Maybe it’s the rash of newspaper sales recently — including the acquisition of the Washington Post by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and the sale of the Boston Globe to local businessman John Henry — but there seems to be a rene…

• Florida Virtual School, Other E-Schools Face Difficult Times – Digital Education – Education Week | Things I grab, motley collection

  Virtual schools in Florida, Kansas, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee are facing enrollment challenges and tough questions. Here’s a roundup of some recent news reports. via Florida Virtual School, Other E-Schools Face Difficult Times – Digital Educat…

• Mobile’s balancing act: Why sometimes collecting data is just as good | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from VentureBeat: Alex Romanov is CEO of iSIGN Media. Read a newspaper today and it’s clear big data and privacy concerns are major news. Since the discovery of the NSA’s clandestine PRISM program –which collects Americans’ informa…

• What higher education’s obsession with technology often overlooks | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from Minding the Workplace: Perhaps it’s the unseasonably cool weather we’re having here in Boston, but I’m already looking ahead to the start of the new school year. On my radar screen today was the topic of technology in higher educ…

• Education is more than academics #pbl #pblworld #coffeechugpln | Things I grab, motley collection

  … We are caught up with the idea that during these exhibition nights students should have several things on display from the various classes to share out. Personally, and this is my own opinion(not the school or other teachers), but education sy…

• An Illustrated Visualization of What Can Happen in a Single Second | Brain Pickings | Things I grab, motley collection

  We’ve previously explored time and the scale of the universe, but what about the scale of time? Do we fully understand the 2.5 billion seconds most of us will experience in an average lifetime? That’s precisely what prolific science author and i…

• Why the smartphone camera changed photography forever | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT I am a professional commercial photographer. I have been for the last 25 years. Throughout most of my career, I’ve had a hard time taking personal pictures — and for years I thought t…

• Seven Ways to Manage Email So It Doesn’t Manage You | Things I grab, motley collection

  I’m always struck by the number of people who complain about the amount of email they receive and how much they despise their inbox—not because their complaints aren’t valid but because my own view couldn’t be more different. This post original…

• Approaching Darkness: One Man Blogs His Descent Into Alzheimer’s | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Psychology Matters Retired physician David Hilfiker, 68, invited me to his Washington, D.C., home to discuss the blog he’s operated for the past 10 months. David has Alzheimer’s disease, a type of dementia that causes memory d…

• Building a marketplace for ideas: #diversity for social learning | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT Communities are built on consensus: they tolerate difference and thrive on diversity, but only within limits. Stretch them too far and there will be a break. I’ve been revisiting ideas…

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• The sharing economy: a whole new way of living | Technology | The Observer | Things I grab, motley collection

  In 2006, serial entrepreneur and investor Martín Varsavsky – inspired by a conviction that he could cloak the world in free Wi-Fi by encouraging people to share their home connections – founded Fon in Madrid. The company is now the largest Wi-Fi…

• Big Data for the Masses [Information Management Online Article] | Things I grab, motley collection

  A well-funded start-up out of Stanford University is attempting to revolutionize the way data is analyzed. The result, if successful, could be akin to the Gutenberg printing press or the electronic calculator, innovative technologies that put hit…

• De-grouping to be a more effective leader | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from Literacy, Languages and Leadership: You are probably familiar with the term “re-grouping”. It means taking a breath and a step back from a situation in order to re-assess the current state of it. Lately, I have been “de-grouping…

• If you could actually see Wi-Fi, this is what it would look like | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from GigaOM: What if you could actually see Wi-Fi? It is something we all have wondered about. We can see the Wi-Fi routers in our homes and our offices, and we also know that somewhere around us are dozens of networks (just click on …

• In Japan, the Rise of ‘Geek Brands’ – BoF – The Business of Fashion | Things I grab, motley collection

  H Tokyo is a good example of the growing popularity of what can loosely be called Geek Brands. Characterised by an obsession with detail, craftsmanship, materials and presentation, they are the antitheses — and a reaction to — both mass market c…

• Sweep the Sleaze [Information Architects] | Things I grab, motley collection

  The previous wave of buttons for Delicious and Digg and Co. vanished, Facebook and Twitter and G+ might vanish or they might survive, but the buttons will vanish for sure. Or do you seriously think that in ten years we will still have those butto…

• What’s an Idea Worth? | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT Why the billable hour no longer makes economic sense. plerudulier‘s insight: Like a lot of accountants, Jason Blumer never really wanted to be an accountant; he wanted to play guitar…

• Big data is healthcare’s biggest threat – and also its likely savior | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from GigaOM: Healthcare CIOs must feel ill some days. They are under pressure by boards of directors and governments to keep costs down, while the medical establishment and government simultaneously foist more requirements to collect,…

• Is entrepreneurship really live and well in Silicon Valley? | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from VentureBeat: This is a guest post by investor Tim Wilson Entrepreneurship is the operative word these days — not just in the Valley. Universities are organizing business plan competitions, venture capital firms are offering ent…

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• The problem with research funding: it’s not just money… | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from Paola Tubaro’s Blog: It is at least the third time I am confronted with this problem – submitting a proposal to a funder, being unsuccessful, and not being told why. Is my proposal flawed or is it simply addressing a topic that i…

• Skint Foodies, Food Programme on BBC Radio 4 | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT Sheila Dillon meets the cooks who’ve specialised in making great food on very low incomes. plerudulier‘s insight: part of a world of food blogging influenced by life of benefits, per…

• Ce que le Monopoly peut nous apprendre sur les biens communs | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from :: S.I.Lex ::: A la fin de la semaine, la rumeur a couru qu’Hasbro avait l’intention de supprimer la case prison du célèbre Monopoly, afin de diminuer la durée des parties. La nouvelle a suscité une certaine émotion chez les afic…

• How interactive technology is transforming storytelling | Culture professionals network | Guardian Professional | Things I grab, motley collection

  Let me begin by saying: reports of the death of the book are wildly exaggerated. Likewise traditional storytelling. Human beings have been telling stories around campfires since the first cavewoman struck a flint against another flint and notice…

• Why savvy students might start to opt out of university | Sonia Sodha | Comment is free | The Observer | Things I grab, motley collection

  School’s out, and many 18-year-olds will be nervously awaiting A-level results, hoping for the grades they need for university. In recent decades university has burgeoned from something the elite did to something enjoyed by almost half of young …

• Why WordPress’ creator is getting back to its development | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from VentureBeat: SAN FRANCISCO — Starting tomorrow, Matt Mullenweg will be leading development on WordPress 3.8. It’s a bit unusual for a founder of a 500-person company with a hugely popular product to take direct part in product …

• I’m Still Waiting for My Phone to Become My Wallet [Bits] | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT It’s long been predicted that consumers would be able to wave their cellphones to buy everything from clothes in a department store to beers in a bar. Why isn’t it happening?     pler…

• Edward Snowden’s not the story. The fate of the internet is | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT The press has lost the plot over the Snowden revelations. The fact is that the net is finished as a global network and that US firms’ cloud services cannot be trusted Repeat after me: …

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