Weekly blog posts (weekly)

• Small-Town Restaurant Asks Guests to Pin Where They’re From on a Map. It Looks Awesome | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from TwistedSifter: The tiny town of Moss Landing, California (population 204 as of 2010) is where you will find Phil’s Fish Market, a small-town restaurant with worldwide appeal. The BBC proclaimed Phil’s one of the ‘World’s Best Be…

• The death of pop: don’t blame it on the download [spiked-online.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  While those born in the Sixties may cling to notions of pop’s ‘importance’, younger generations appear far less obsessive or even interested. Many argue that computer games, the internet and social media have filled the gap where buying vinyl an…

• How Tumblr and GitHub could be the future of education [blogs.reuters.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  we’re only just beginning to glimpse the possibilities of a world powered by an unprecedented level degree of connectivity between people, ideas, and code. In such a world, educators will have to radically change the way they work. While schools…

• Why Bitcoin Matters [NYTimes.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  A mysterious new technology emerges, seemingly out of nowhere, but actually the result of two decades of intense research and development by nearly anonymous researchers. Political idealists project visions of liberation and revolution onto it;…

• Digg – What the Internet is talking about right now

  [Dugg] Colleges Use ‘Digital Badges’ to Replace Traditional Grading: K-12 educators designing digital badge prog… http://t.co/5pIRl6YX

  • Digg is a technology news website that employs non-hierarchical editorial control. With digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allowing an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do. – post by Mag T
  • I love Digg! The site rocks! – post by Mike
  • yeah, cool site. i’m testing the social annotation function right now. – post by Jonathan
  • testing – post by Jonathan
  • why type in the security word before checking if there are any dups? – post by yc c
  • News site where you choose what’s on the front page – post by Travis Newman
  • Digg is a technology news website that employs non-hierarchical editorial control. With digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allowing an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do – post by Alexander Mukhin
  • Digg is a technology news website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control. With digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allowing an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users – post by Scott Vine
  • User driven news – post by Michael
  • I feel that Diigo is really onto something here. I feel that this could overcome Digg if done properly.

    – Tom [ http://tomvendetta.be ] – post by Tom V

  • Testing… – post by xur217
  • technology news website – post by Zhe sto
  • Techno-Nerds turned editors tell you what they think of the news. It’s a pretty good way to check the vital signs of the body technorati. – post by Phil Yanov
  • Techno-Nerds turned editors tell you what they think of the news. It’s a pretty good way to check the vital signs of the body technorati. – post by Phil Yanov
  • Next Net – post by Joe Buhler
  • Social news – post by jasonbentley
  • Share, discover, bookmark, and promote the news that’s important to you – post by neil payne
  • kevin rose’s wiki-edited online newspaper. – post by Joe Gilmore
  • Digg is a technology news website that employs non-hierarchical editorial control. With digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allowing an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do. – post by Beer Bin
  • no-updated [4GsP1Y4d3E5x5g9l5cMXP/v+7b4]
    – post by Kyle Klipowicz
  • Digg is all about user powered content. Every article on digg is submitted and voted on by the digg community. Share, discover, bookmark, and promote the news that’s important to you! – post by Mura Matsu
  • Digg is a technology news website that employs non-hierarchical editorial control. With digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allowing an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do. – post by Tomáš Vadovič
  • Digg is a place, like high-school, where the number and class of your friends determines the extent of your participation. – post by eighteyes
  • i love digg.and i love kevin rose. – post by Arslan Zahid
  • My Tech World

    All About Technology,The web site is the source to all your informational needs.
    Information Technology and IT definition.Here You Can Find ELECTRONICS,
    IT AND TELECOMMS,INDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING,New Realsed Technologies Products.
    Internet,Technologies….AND MUCH MORE
    http://game-victory.blogspot.com/
    – post by Fahad Aziz

  • Diigo is a ripoff. Everyone’s entitled to there opinion and that’s mine. I’ll justify it in class tomorrow. – post by Ian McPherson

• Un café avec Véronique Favre,

  Un café avec Véronique Favre, qui expérimente l’iPad en Petite Section | DeclicKids http://t.co/q2VqdgMf via @2vanssay

• Google+ for Android update brings new look, now…

  Google+ for Android update brings new look, now lets you start Hangouts from a phone | @scoopit http://t.co/a9ldADqM

• Students in Quebec were asked to send their march

  tags: GGI loi78 manifencours

  Students in Quebec were asked to send their march route to the cops & they replied with this: #GGI #loi78 #manifencours http://t.co/1ELuNGsY

• Olympic athletes pepper Foursquare with special tips and a new badge | VentureBeat | Social | by J. O'Dell

  Olympic athletes pepper Foursquare with special tips and a new badge http://t.co/Lm7qeZR3 by @JolieODell

• Child care costs: how the UK compares with the world | News | theguardian.com

  Child care costs: how the UK compares with the world http://t.co/4r7on0Ma

• Nick Clegg rails against British class snobbery | Politics | theguardian.com

  Nick Clegg rails against British class snobbery http://t.co/JrmewdkV

• Teachers strike over attempt to force school to become sponsored academy | Education | theguardian.com

  Teachers strike over attempt to force school to become sponsored academy http://t.co/TIlU6DQV

• OECD Better Life Index

  How does education contribute to your well-being? Find out with this new interactive tool http://t.co/3B5fzDpY #OECDWeek

  tags: OECDWeek

• [EXCLU] Google lance un servic

  [EXCLU] Google lance un service régional innovant http://t.co/B5TyW8uQ

• Le curé rouge qui a bouleversé

  Le curé rouge qui a bouleversé la vie des enfants de bourgeois http://t.co/nlgFakv0 (via @summify)

• Du crowdsourcing pour traduire des textes Chinois | Digital Renaissance

  Du crowdsourcing pour traduire des textes chinois http://t.co/Y66bR5Nq

• To all the mothers of tech founders: despite the s

  To all the mothers of tech founders: despite the stress we cause you, thank you for always supporting us.

• ‘Map of Life’ aims to show whe

  ‘Map of Life’ aims to show where all living things live on the planet http://t.co/DZR98GL7 #mapping #biology

  tags: mapping biology

• The Education Foundation Launches Learning Lab in

  The Education Foundation Launches Learning Lab in London http://t.co/UKoZrPLb

• New interactive book could explain everything anyone needs to know about energy | Grist

  New interactive book could explain everything anyone needs to know about energy http://t.co/ApXuZLfG

• New Battery System Could Reduc

  New Battery System Could Reduce Buildings’ Electric Bills http://t.co/oTVbLGwe

• Procrastination: a student’s worst enemy? | Education | theguardian.com

  Students, are you procrastinating on twitter? You need help – from Blogging Students http://t.co/w8Xk38q6 via @guardian

• Dutch ‘Repair Cafes’ keep stuff out of the trash by fixing it for free | Grist

  Dutch ‘Repair Cafes’ keep stuff out of the trash by fixing it for free http://t.co/Lq41f4dh

• Empathy: Testing and being tested | Experiments in Learning by Doing

  Another cool @jgough reflection: Testing and being tested – http://t.co/CY0dicG4 #edchat #cpchat

  tags: edchat cpchat

• A better Google+ notification experience in email

  A better Google+ notification experience in email http://t.co/gaoecXuF (via @summify)

• IQ varies by country. The average IQ of someone in

  IQ varies by country. The average IQ of someone in the U.S. is 98 while in the U.K, it’s 100. Hong Kong tops the chart with 107.

• International Airport aims to

  #HongKong International Airport aims to be the world’s greenest airport – the first commitment of its kind worldwide! http://t.co/oU689l9w

  tags: HongKong

• Find Friends Who Use WordPress — Blog — WordPress.com

  Find Friends Who Use WordPress http://t.co/OyQGbOMG

• Facebook has released a WordPress plugin for socia

  HONORING RYAN WHITE, 2009. President Barack Obama signs the Ryan White HIV/AIDS… http://t.co/z2pjDSaP
  Facebook has released a WordPress plugin for social reading https://t.co/JbU31nlt [no I am not rushing to add this one]

• Story of the Day: The cost of technology downtime

  Story of the Day: The cost of technology downtime in the classroom is more than you think http://t.co/qYIAH0C0 #edtech #college

  tags: edtech college

• Has the internet run out of ideas already? | Technology | The Observer

  Has the internet run out of ideas already? http://t.co/uekmfqth

• Who Am I? The 10 Types of Twitter Chat Participants … | Curation

  Who Am I? The 10 Types of Twitter Chat Participants Based on a few months of enjoyment in Twitter http://t.co/O63x29YT

• It’s bobsleigh time: Jamaican team raises $25,000 in Dogecoin [theguardian.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  A group of supporters has raised more than $25,000 in the internet currency Dogecoin to let the Jamaican bobsleigh team attend the Winter Olympics in Sochi. On Sunday, news broke that the team had qualified for the Winter Olympics for the first…

• If I Had a Hammer [NYTimes.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  Something very, very big happened over the last decade. It is being felt in every job, factory and school. My own shorthand is that the world went from “connected to hyperconnected” and, as a result, average is over, because employers now have s…

• The Whistle-Blower Who Freed Dreyfus [NYTimes.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  KINTBURY, England — Georges Picquart died 100 years ago this Saturday. To which the response from most quarters is likely to be “Georges who?” Even in his native France, his centenary is passing largely unremarked  (I confirm, if not for a tweet…

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Weekly blog posts (weekly)

• What scientific idea is ready for retirement? [theguardian.com & edge.org] | Things I grab, motley collection

  Each year a forum for the world\’s most brilliant minds asks one question. This year\’s drew responses from such names as Richard Dawkins, Ian McEwan and Alan Alda. Here, edge.org founder John Brockman explains how the question came into being a…

• Grass-roots activists increasingly use online petitions to promote local causes [washingtonpost.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  Since the Internet’s early days, optimists have predicted that the technology would be a huge plus for democracy by dramatically expanding opportunities for direct engagement with the public. Now, part of that dream is being fulfilled. Grass-ro…

• Why leadership-development programs fail [mckinsey.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  For years, organizations have lavished time and money on improving the capabilities of managers and on nurturing new leaders. US companies alone spend almost $14 billion annually on leadership development.1 Colleges and universities offer hundre…

• If Crowds Are Wise, Why Isn’t Congress? [truth-out.org] | Things I grab, motley collection

  We’ve all heard of the “wisdom of crowds” especially after James Surowiecki’s 2004 best-selling book by that name and Scott Page’s 2007 “The Difference.” A recent entry into the English dictionary, dating from around 2006, is indeed “crowdsource….

• Forget funeral selfies. What are the ethics of tweeting a terminal illness? [@emmagkeller for theguardian.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  Lisa Bonchek Adams is dying. She has Stage IV breast cancer and now it\’s metastasized to her bones, joints, hips, spine, liver and lungs. She\’s in terrible pain. She knows there is no cure, and she wants you to know all about what she is going…

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Weekly blog posts (weekly)

• Business-card sized chip detects HIV on the spot [dvice.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  Part of the battle in fighting HIV is detecting the disease early. But in parts of the world where patients must drive hours to get to the nearest clinic for testing and monitoring, detection of the disease is not always possible. However, scien…

• This looks like a fluorescent tube, but it’s actually a 41% more efficient LED lamp [TreeHugger] | Things I grab, motley collection

  We could save the energy equivalent of 210 power plants We\’ve talked a lot about how energy-efficient lighting, which mostly means LEDs now, is an easy way to reduce your electricity use. The same applies for the commercial sector. For a long …

• Evgeny Morozov on Why Our Privacy Problem is a Democracy Problem in Disguise [@evgenymorozov for MIT Technology Review] | Things I grab, motley collection

  The invisible barbed wire of big data limits our lives to a space that might look quiet and enticing enough but is not of our own choosing and that we cannot rebuild or expand. The worst part is that we do not see it as such. Because we believe …

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Weekly blog posts (weekly)

• The Dark Side of Emotional Intelligence [Adam Grant for The Atlantic] | Things I grab, motley collection

  Since the 1995 publication of Daniel Goleman’s bestseller, emotional intelligence has been touted by leaders, policymakers, and educators as the solution to a wide range of social problems. If we can teach our children to manage emotions, the ar…

• Young techies, know your place! | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from PandoDaily: So, let me get this straight… You just graduated college last year, and you are already making an $80,000 salary, plus a stock option bonus? You are living by yourself in a killer Hayes Valley apartment? And you are …

• Why I Have Become Pessimistic About Indian I.T. [@wadhwa on LinkedIn] | Things I grab, motley collection

  It is not that Indian outsourcers have become less capable of servicing Western needs. It is that their customer base—the CIO and IT department—is in decline. With the advent of tablets, apps, and cloud computing, users have direct access to bet…

• Beneath the chatter about the Future Of Work lies a discontinuity [@stoweboyd 4 Gigaom.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  Instead of conceptualizing the company as broken into managed units, with managers leading each unit and subordinates doing their piecework, we need to conceive of the company as a world — an ecology — built-up from each individual connecting to…

• Beyoncé has reinvented how to release an album. Over to you, Adele [The Guardian] | Things I grab, motley collection

  … will 2014 see artists of various shapes and sizes chucking albums into the ether and hoping for the best? U2, Adele, Madonna, Rihanna and One Direction are due to release albums in 2014; they and others may try to emulate Beyoncégeddon, but mo…

• Viewing Where the Internet Goes [NYTimes.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  Can the Internet be governed effectively? I’m deliberately arguing that new institutions are not necessary. How significant is the danger that the Internet will be balkanized, as critics of the I.T.U. fear? Balkanization is too simple of a co…

• Property and Theft [Jacobin] | Things I grab, motley collection

  The state’s current approach to intellectual property has come under scrutiny of late, as its disconnect from anything that might have once legitimated it has become more and more obvious. The activities of rent-seeking patent trolls, who accumu…

• ▶ British Library’s old maps become 3D virtual worlds | Things I grab, motley collection

  via ▶ British Library’s old maps become 3D virtual worlds – YouTube.

  Filed under: curation

• AOL Sells Winamp And Shoutcast Music Services To Online Radio Aggregator Radionomy | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from TechCrunch: Some more detail on the fate of Winamp and Shoutcast, the legacy digital music services that owner AOL (which also owns TechCrunch) originally planned to shut down but then halted pending a sale. They are not being bo…

• Advanced Imaging Reveals a Computer 1,500 Years Ahead of Its Time [io9.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  X-rays and advanced photography have uncovered the true complexity of the mysterious Antikythera mechanism, a device so astonishing that its discovery is like finding a functional Buick in medieval Europe. In 1900, some divers found the wreck o…

• 2013 in review | Things I grab, motley collection

  The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 7,700 times in 2013. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take…

• Little Change in Public’s Response to ’Capitalism,’ ’Socialism’ [people-press.org] | Things I grab, motley collection

  The recent Occupy Wall Street protests have focused public attention on what organizers see as the excesses of America’s free market system, but perceptions of capitalism – and even of socialism – have changed little since early 2010 despite the…

• Latvia Adopts the Euro As National Currency | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from World: Latvia has adopted the euro, becoming the 18th country to use the troubled European currency. The Baltic nation’s leaders view Eurozone membership as vital to strengthening ties with the West. Latvia broke away from the S…

• The Disinformation | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from Uncrunched: When Jessica Lessin’s The Information launched a month ago I was an enthusiastic supporter, paying the $400 yearly subscription fee right away to get access to quality tech content. I remember blinking when I read ab…

• Viewing Where the Internet Goes [NYTimes.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  When Edward J. Snowden, the disaffected National Security Agency contract employee, purloined tens of thousands of classified documents from computers around the world, his actions — and their still-reverberating consequences — heightened intern…

• Zappos is going holacratic: no job titles, no managers, no hierarchy | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from Quartz: Zappos is known for its zany corporate culture. The company’s Q4 “All Hands” meeting in November was aptly-themed “Gone Wild”: one female employee voluntarily climbed into a case filled with tarantulas to win a $250 gift …

• French Polymath Henri Poincaré on How Creativity Works [Brain Pickings] | Things I grab, motley collection

  … Poincaré observes a process profoundly applicable not only to mathematics, but to just about any creative discipline: I wanted to represent these functions by the quotient of two series; this idea was perfectly conscious and deliberate; the a…

• Block by Block, Detroit’s Startup Scene Revives a Great City [Mashable] | Things I grab, motley collection

  … despite the bankruptcy, crime, urban desolation and despair, a different story is emerging. Slowly, the Detroit phoenix seems to be peeking from its very substantial ashes. Slowly, the Detroit phoenix seems to be peeking from its very substant…

• Scientists exploring computers that can learn and adapt | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from VentureBeat: For six or seven decades, computers have been based on processing electronic 1s and 0s. Now, computer scientists are breaking out of that paradigm in strange new directions, as they seek new ways to tackle problems …

• Evaluer l'innovation : au-delà du mythe des brevets

  Évaluer l’innovation : au-delà du mythe des brevets http://t.co/kB0W0GrnV1

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