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• Can mesh networks and offline wireless move from protest tools to news? » – ©[niemanlab.org] | Things I grab, motley collection

  From the protests in Hong Kong to Occupy and Sandy in New York, a new generation of tools is allowing communities to connect without using the Internet. Can they have a use in news too?

  In the rush to get from here to there, not many travelers in…

• 11 powerful and moving photos of the week | Things I grab, motley collection

  Originally posted on Global News:

  A commemorative installation at the Tower of London made of 888,246 individually crafted red poppies, each representing the lost life of a British or colonial soldier killed in the First World War, was completed …

• Comment la guerre de 14-18 a é

  Comment la guerre de 14-18 a éloigné les économies française et allemande http://t.co/3VdmcpMamR

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• The Future Of French Robotics | Things I grab, motley collection

  Originally posted on TechCrunch:

  Editor’s note:Laetitia Vitaud is a blogger, coach, teacher of U.S. politics in France and passionate about the digital transition of our economy.

  The French still dream of humanoid robots and electric sheep. Swed…

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• In the Shadows of the High Line – [NYTimes.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  WHEN the first segment of the High Line, the now-famous park built atop an old elevated railway on the West Side of Manhattan, opened in 2009, I experienced a moment of excitement. I had often wondered what it would be like to climb that graffiti-…

• How One Boy With Autism Became BFF With Apple’s Siri – [NYTimes.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  Just how bad a mother am I? I wondered, as I watched my 13-year-old son deep in conversation with Siri. Gus has autism, and Siri, Apple’s “intelligent personal assistant” on the iPhone, is currently his BFF. Obsessed with weather formations, Gus h…

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• When Those Who Know Won’t Share – [NYTimes.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  There is no “I” in team, we are told. It’s important for workers to share information and collaborate. So why would employees deliberately hide knowledge from their colleagues? And yet they do, all the time.

  Knowledge-hiding in the workplace is c…

• Smart people listen to Radiohead and dumb people listen to Beyoncé, according to study | Things I grab, motley collection

  plerudulier:

  Counting crows (not that often Radiohead, sorry if that makes me dumber), The Shins, …

  Originally posted on Consequence of Sound:

  How does a person’s intelligence relate to the type of music they listen to? For the last several yea…

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• What Peter Drucker Knew About 2020 | Things I grab, motley collection

  Harvard Business Review:

  For Drucker, the newest new world was marked, above all, by one dominant factor: “the shift to a knowledge society.”

  Originally posted on HBR Blog Network – Harvard Business Review:

  When PwC released its annual survey o…

• Xiaomi, Not Apple, Is Changing the Smartphone Industry | Things I grab, motley collection

  Originally posted on HBR Blog Network – Harvard Business Review:

  Determining which customer to target first is one of the most critical decisions in the entrepreneurial process.  Customers that are relatively less risky and more predictable can m…

• These Traffic Lights Predict Your Behavior To Give You A Speedier Commute – [fastcoexist.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  There should be a German word for that feeling when you desperately need to be somewhere on time, and the traffic lights seem like they’re conspiring against you. When the greens feel especially short, the reds especially long, and both appear as …

• Miss a Payment? Good Luck Moving That Car – [NYTimes.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  The thermometer showed a 103.5-degree fever, and her 10-year-old’s asthma was flaring up. Mary Bolender, who lives in Las Vegas, needed to get her daughter to an emergency room, but her 2005 Chrysler van would not start.

  The cause was not a mecha…

• It was great having you, magazines. Let’s just say goodbye now | Things I grab, motley collection

  plerudulier:

  “Magazine still do come in handy tho when your battery of your tech is low. And sometimes the resolution on paper magazines is just better on the eyes as is the reading. Giving oneself a rest from tech is rather good.”

  Originally po…

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

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

• Ze log – Michel Serres : bienvenue à l’homme nouveau

  Michel Serres : bienvenue à l’homme nouveau http://t.co/l0ZKukD1

• Sweden has been letting its citizens run its twitt

  Sweden has been letting its citizens run its twitter feed. It was only a matter of time before a troll got ahold of it http://t.co/YgnQUcB8

• Anonymous Makes Everyone Reporters with a DIY Press Pass | The Snitch | San Francisco | San Francisco News and Events | SF Weekly

  Remember HTTP makes us all journalists / N’oublie pas HTTP fait de nous tous des journalistes http://t.co/pZVJdKZt #manifencours #opbart

  tags: manifencours opbart

• tops 10 Best Cities for Shopping list! via

  #HongKong tops @TheTobeReport’s 10 Best Cities for Shopping list! http://t.co/RQq1P8s1 via @CNBC

  tags: HongKong

• Le curé rouge qui a bouleversé

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

• Ze log – Starting my BYOD … with a tablet | Débuter mon BYOD* … avec 1 tablette

  Starting my BYOD … with a tablet | Débuter mon BYOD* … avec 1 tablette http://t.co/uvnxhRZX

• The Education Foundation Launches Learning Lab in London – Getting Smart by Getting Smart Staff – edchat, edreform, EdTech | Getting Smart

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

• A better Google+ notification experience in email

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

• Why History Should Replace Economics in the 21st Century – [io9.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  Fifty years ago, historians advised politicians and policy-makers. They helped chart the future of nations, by helping leaders learn from past mistakes in history. But then something changed, and we began making decisions based on economic princip…

• We Can Be Heroes – [thenewinquiry.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  By associating itself with the selfish pleasures of visibility, the wearable camera GoPro has staved off criticism for how it enhances surveillance

  In On Photography, Susan Sontag laments the disconnected voyeurism photography produces. “Photogra…

• 1918-1920: The Flu Epidemic – [http://mashable.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  Perhaps most significant, the influenza outbreak coincided with the final year of what was then called “The Great War” WWI. The war had already exacted a massive psychological toll on the globe, but frequent international combat probably also had …

• The Grid Uses Artificial Intelligence To Design Your Websites For You | Things I grab, motley collection

  Originally posted on TechCrunch:

  Designing a good-looking website has never been easy and while many services promise to let you build a site without ever having to touch any code, you quickly reach their limits if you want to have a more advance…

• No One Tweets Like the Japanese, and That Was a Huge Problem for Twitter | [wired.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  Twitter engineer Mazdak Hashemi says the Japanese tweet like no one else on earth.

  When the New Year arrives or even as they watch certain moments in shows and movies broadcast on national television, tens of thousands of Japanese will tweet at p…

• The 2014 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology goes to the discoverers of grid and place cells | Things I grab, motley collection

  Originally posted on neuroecology:

  I was joking last night that when they announced the Nobel Prize, I wouldn’t have any clue who the winner was because I basically don’t know biology from before 10 years ago. Then I wake up and the winners are s…

• ‘Gamification’ Is Dead, Long Live Games For Learning | Things I grab, motley collection

  Originally posted on TechCrunch:

  Editor’s note: Michael John (“MJ”) is responsible for all creative product development at GlassLab. An industry veteran who has designed commercial video games for close to twenty years, his design credits include…

• An Open Office Experiment That Actually Worked | Things I grab, motley collection

  Originally posted on HBR Blog Network – Harvard Business Review:

  Nowadays many people regard open-plan offices with skepticism — remnants of a once-cool work space fad that led to more distraction than innovation. As this article explains, there …

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• Ubiquitous, light, easy to operate, it’s, it’s … | Omniprésent, léger, facile à utiliser, c’est, c’est … | plerudulier | Things I grab, motley collection

  I can’t believe that over the years I have maintained this blog I haven’t written once about TiddlyWiki. In a nutshell it’s a non linear personal web notebook… which doesn’t mean much to many I suppose. There’s no point copying and pasting here de…

• Forty Portraits in Forty Years – [NYTimes.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  Nicholas Nixon was visiting his wife’s family when, “on a whim,” he said, he asked her and her three sisters if he could take their picture. It was summer 1975, and a black-and-white photograph of four young women — elbows casually attenuated, in …

• How to see into the future – [FT.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  Irving Fisher was once the most famous economist in the world. Some would say he was the greatest economist who ever lived. “Anywhere from a decade to two generations ahead of his time,” opined the first Nobel laureate economist Ragnar Frisch, in …

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