March 12, 2009
“On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.” — The words of a well-known adage dating back to a New Yorker cartoon from 1993 have been interpreted and re-interpreted, acting over the years as a starting point for debates on privacy and online anonymity. In Japan, a country wit...
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Among the people who agree that more people need to get into computers and engineering is Leah Buechley, an assistant professor at MIT's famous Media Lab. That's why, at ETech in San Jose today, she gave a explaining the secret super powers of electronic fashion. "It's not enough to take existing mo...
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk
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March 11, 2009
[You're reading http://BenMartinCAE.com. Actually, right now you're just reading the RSS post header.] This might come as some surprise to those who know me well, but it had to be done. Ever since December (and maybe longer), I’ve been having a really hard time keeping up with it all. You̵...
Ben Martin, CAE
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bkmcae@gmail.com (Ben Martin)
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DBI (affectionally called the Douche Bag Index) is a number that rates your followers according to how they use Twitter. DBI ranges from 0 to 100 and higher numbers represent people who are more likely to be annoying twitter users.......
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Jim Howard
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I spent some time this morning putting together my deck for my "There's No Such Thing As A Crystal Ball" talk tomorrow. Since I've already blogged this "meme" and got awesome comments on it (several of which have found there way into the talk), I figure I should keep going by posting my first draft ...
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Fred
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The creation of long platinum nanowires at the University of Rochester could soon lead to the development of commercially viable fuel cells. Described in a paper published today in the journal Nano Letters, the new wires should provide significant increases in both the longevity and efficiency of fu...
Science Blog - Science news straight from the source
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bjs
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Travis Alber, Kat Meyer’s latest interviewee in her Digitizers series, is co-founder of BookGlutton. See more on Travis at the end. Launched in January 2008, BookGlutton is a cross between a book, a computer and a book group—a Web-based reading platform that lets users discuss books from...
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home
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Kat Meyer
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BOSTON (March 11, 2009) -- In most discussions of energy and climate, coal figures prominently as one of the villains. Burning coal is responsible for more than a third of all energy-related U.S. carbon dioxide emissions and 80 percent of those from electricity production. It is also one of the larg...
Scientific American
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"The electric things have their life too. Paltry as those lives are." - Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? OXFORD, Ohio (ZP) -- Somewhere in time, on some drunken night of mayhem, he'd shattered his iPhone against a brick wall. Chunks of ancient red dust from some ...
The Zenformation Professional
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Coding Horror: Why Can't Error Messages Be Fun? - Chrome is a joy to use, and in my opinion at least, it's the first true advance in web browser technology since the heady days of Internet Explorer 4.0. Chrome is filled with so many thoughtful details, so many reimaginings of web browser functio...
Vinny Carpenter's blog
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