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Focusing on everything - Joi Ito's Web

Submitted by paulbhartzog on Mon, 06/07/2010 - 01:56
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http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2010/05/13/focusing-on-eve.html

"We'll see how this "focus on everything" model works, but I'm not convinced that it doesn't."

Does the Internet Make You Dumber? - WSJ.com

Submitted by paulbhartzog on Mon, 06/07/2010 - 01:53
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870402530457528498164479009...

"The researchers were surprised by the results. They had expected that the intensive multitaskers would have gained some unique mental advantages from all their on-screen juggling. But that wasn't the case. In fact, the heavy multitaskers weren't even good at multitasking. They were considerably less adept at switching between tasks than the more infrequent multitaskers. "Everything distracts them," observed Clifford Nass, the professor who heads the Stanford lab."

Does the Internet Make You Smarter? - WSJ.com

Submitted by paulbhartzog on Mon, 06/07/2010 - 01:49
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870402530457528497347269433...

"We are now witnessing the rapid stress of older institutions accompanied by the slow and fitful development of cultural alternatives."

Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: What Can Teachers Learn from DIY Cultures: An Interview ... (Part Three)

Submitted by paulbhartzog on Sun, 06/06/2010 - 02:04
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http://henryjenkins.org/2010/05/what_can_teachers_learn_from_d_1.html

What do you say to an educator or parent who feels that making music remix videos, say, has nothing to do with literacy? In what senses are you describing such forms of expression as literacy practices?

Patchwork Nation: Media Landscape Shifts Online in a Wired Town | PBS NewsHour | Dec. 8, 2009 | PBS

Submitted by paulbhartzog on Wed, 12/09/2009 - 22:20
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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/media/july-dec09/annarbornews_12-08....

If there is a community well positioned for the demise of a true local daily, it may be the heavily wired, tech-savvy college town of Ann Arbor, Mich.

10 predictions for the next decade

Submitted by paulbhartzog on Fri, 12/04/2009 - 03:13
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http://transmogrifant.com/2009/11/26/10-predictions-for-the-next-decade/

4. We’ll finally get a space elevator. It’ll be made out of carbon nanotubes. It’ll be 100% privately funded.

How the morons in 2012 should have tried to save humanity instead of the retarded crap they did instead

Submitted by paulbhartzog on Fri, 12/04/2009 - 03:08
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http://transmogrifant.com/2009/11/15/how-the-morons-in-2012-should-have-...

1. Don’t go to the government unless you want the most insanely inefficient and time-consuming result possible.

2. Tell everyone as soon as possible.

3. Distribute 3D printers and open source survival pod designs.

4. Kill the monetary system ASAP.

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If this dude can water his whole village with a library book and some shit that was laying around in the yard, you can make a survival pod. Trust me.

Internet dumbing-down hysteria compared against previous waves of anti-tech backlash - Boing Boing

Submitted by paulbhartzog on Mon, 09/21/2009 - 21:26
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/09/18/internet-dumbing-dow.html

Planning on reading this.
I like the tone of the author,
and I think he groks change in a useful way because he's a linguist.

-p

Future Knowledge Ecosystems: The Next Twenty Years of Technology-Led Economic Development | The Institute For The Future

Submitted by paulbhartzog on Wed, 06/17/2009 - 23:57
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http://www.iftf.org/iasp

possibly like the Flows work we are doing (plus its from Anthony Townsend @ IFTF):

On June 2, Anthony Townsend presented IFTF's forecast on the future of technology-led economic development to over 800 attendees at the International Association of Science Parks' World Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina.

The Finance 2.0 Manifesto - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org

Submitted by paulbhartzog on Tue, 04/14/2009 - 22:00
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http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/haque/2009/04/manifesto.html

There are opportunities for us in the niches that he outlines....

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