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10 Things You Can Do On a PC Without Ever Touching the Mouse | Things I grab, motley collection
See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT You may not realize it, but you can do an awful lot from your keyboard. You can launch apps, switch between windows, edit text, and even clean out your email, all without ever moving y…
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This Algorithm Distills Your Life Story From Your Twitter Stream | Things I grab, motley collection
See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT Just how much do your tweets reveal about you? plerudulier‘s insight: Researchers from Cornell and Carnegie Mellon University have created an algorithm that can tell a Twitter user’s…
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The Complete Visual Guide To Technology For Children | Things I grab, motley collection
See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT This handy visual guide explores technology use by young children. How much and what do they use, and is it appropriate? plerudulier‘s insight: The return of infographics (at least i…
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Reblogged from Quartz: The borders within countries in the European Union no longer exist as far as currency, trade in goods and services, and people are concerned. But for mobile phones, they’re all too real. Europeans who travel around the co…
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See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT Using the crowd for data mining and machine learning is just one of the many fascinating topics on the agenda for this year’s CrowdConf, the longest running crowdsourcing industry even…
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Distance Learning Bridges the Rural (and Digital) Divide | Things I grab, motley collection
See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT When a series of state funding cuts in 2012 led Western Nevada College to begin shuttering all of its storefront satellite campuses that had been set up for rural students across a…
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You can’t quit social networks. Get used to it | Things I grab, motley collection
Reblogged from PandoDaily: It seems like every week there’s a new study or article published bemoaning our hyper-networked existence. Social media, and Facebook in particular, makes us lonely, fuels FOMO (fear of missing out), and turns our liv…
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Dancing to Silent Algorithms | Things I grab, motley collection
See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT I’ve been on the phone to my bank again. This time I spoke with Rob, who sounded Canadian. I guess the advantage of doin… plerudulier‘s insight: … advantage of doing business with th…
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Online CV is good, maximising its visibility is better | Things I grab, motley collection
See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT I once wrote about the other CV one could build, on account of extra skills one acquires along one’s professionnal life. I also wrote about using one’s email (in my case gmail) as, als…
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Science’s Sokal moment | Things I grab, motley collection
See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT IN 1996 Alan Sokal, a physicist at New York University, submitted a paper to Social Text, a leading scholarly journal of postmodernist cultural studies. The… plerudulier‘s insight: ……
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Global cities revisited | Things I grab, motley collection
See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT IN 1991, Saskia Sassen, a sociologist, wrote her most famous work, “The Global City”. It argued that large, technologically advanced urban areas defined the… plerudulier‘s insight: …
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