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I’d like librarians to forget about content for a little while – we solved that problem already. The problem you need to solve isn’t the storage or accumulation of information. The problem you need to solve is access to information and useful ways to share ideas. Not access according to the old models, or your present circumstances. I want you to think about the perfect model of access, under imperfect conditions. Not what can be found at a PC terminal inside the library with a librarian at your elbow, but what can be found from a smartphone on the bus when the monthly data plan is running low and the assignment is due tomorrow.
A failure of imagination – the problem with format neutrality | It’s Not About the Books (via infoneer-pulse)(via morrowplanet)
Posted on May 30, 2012 via infoneer pulse with 60 notes
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Having been blessed with the wealth there is no better way of using it than education.
Sheikh Abdulla bin Ali Al-Thani, a member of Qatar’s ruling family and a former university professor
(via roughnightforlulu)
-“Why is Qatar investing so much in education?”(Source: BBC, via roughnightforlulu)
Posted on May 29, 2012 via RoughNightForLulu with 5 notes
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I’m not saying you shouldn’t build native apps. And I don’t want to have yet-another-debate about web vs. native. I simply want to suggest that you start creating your mobile presence as a web presence. That’s where users are most likely to find you, and you want to give them a good experience when they do.
Posted on May 22, 2012 via the Web, unplugged with 3 notes
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On Facebook, deleting an app doesn’t delete your data from their system
However, Facebook also clarifies that “if you’ve removed an application and want them to delete the information you’ve already shared with them, you should contact the application and ask them to delete it.” This implies that, even if you change Facebook’s privacy settings since beginning to use a third-party service, or no longer user the service at all, the service may keep your data on hand unless directly asked to delete it. That is, Facebook won’t be your middle man in data cleanup; however, Facebook does note in the policy that apps are contractually obligated to delete data if asked.
» via ars technica
Yeah, been there. Also, shocked, to be sure.
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Posted on May 14, 2012 via infoneer pulse with 23 notes
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FACT: The number of students who have to go into debt to get a bachelor’s degree has risen from 45% in 1993 to 94% today.
(Source: think-progress)
Posted on May 14, 2012 via Think Progress with 4,576 notes
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Facebook paying Microsoft $550 million for former AOL patents
The day Facebook bought Instagram for a billion bucks, Microsoft (somewhat under the radar) also paid AOL a billion bucks for 600 patents, half of which they are now selling to Facebook.
This makes me nervous about the future of the web.
Posted on April 23, 2012 via jimray with 14 notes
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I majored in #11 and then a version of #13 in undergrad and ended up with a Masters in #8. Looking down this list, it seems these are the majors that make you happy instead of making you rich. They also seem to be degrees that prepare someone to contribute thoughtful or beautiful things to the world. I think we need a new definition of useless.
Amor Fati: The 13 Most Useless College Majors (As Determined By Science) (via newsweek)(via newsweek)
Posted on April 23, 2012 via Newsweek with 18,267 notes
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Really since the introduction of the iPhone, but particularly after the advent iPad, this concept of “apps as content” has gained a lot of currency, and now every media company in the world feels compelled to be in the business of developing native software as a distribution channel. Despite the press’s tendency to portray this trend as futuristic, I actually think of it as a bit retrograde—particularly since we’ve actually been evolving an incredibly sophisticated medium for content presentation and distribution for over 15 years now: the web.
Buzz Andersen, my pal and Director of Mobile Development at Tumblr
Couldn’t possibly agree more.
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Posted on March 9, 2012 via Zombie Future with 19 notes
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Congratulations, Tegrity, that easily makes my top 5 app update descriptions.
Posted on January 23, 2012
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Thousands of young people desperate to study—and their parents—pushed their way to the gates of the University of Johannesburg in South Africa Tuesday, where some 11,000 people were expected to vie for as few as 800 spots. One woman died in the crush.
Damn.
South Africa is suffering a real higher ed capacity crush right now. Some people I know are working on solutions; let’s hope they can find them.
(via publicradiointernational)
Posted on January 11, 2012 via pictures of the day with 339 notes
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