The Economist jumped into the fray over Scottish Independence when they put a map of a future, independent Scotland and it’s placenames on the cover in April 14-20, 2012. Continue reading
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Educause Game Changers book worth a look
Educause is well known to the denizens of HE, and they have just released a new book edited by Diana Oblinger, Game Changers: Education and Information Technologies. With 17 chapters and an additional 21 case studies, the work is a compilation of authors’ views about how “Institutions are finding new ways of achieving higher education’s mission without being crippled by constraints or overpowered by greater expectations”. The authors are a collection of university presidents, provosts, faculty and others who are taking a serious analysis of how the face of HE needs to change to sustain. Continue reading
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EssayTyper as an automatic writing tool
So there are links being passed round about EssayTyper. Hit the website and it renders a page with “Oh no! It’s finals week and I have to finish my [blank] essay immediately.” Put in a topic and then bang the keys. Voila! You have an essay. Continue reading
Eurozone in for a rough ride as crowd weighs in
So, it was predicted, but it took some time to form. Now the backlash against the eurozone management by top politicians in the area is gaining steam and going to hit hard. Continue reading
Elsevier is moving to open journals for text-mining
Elsevier has been getting it in the neck, from many quarters, including me, of late. Now they seem to be trying to make some good PR moves. Heather Piwowar at UBC seems to have uncovered a direct line into Elsevier and is getting text-mining rights into the trove for UBC. Continue reading
Google gets fined by FTC for being evil
Google has seemingly defied its own policy of “do no evil” and been very, very naughty. Now they are in negotiation with the FTC to become the first company to be fined for a violation of internet privacy. Continue reading
Cloud *aaService economics
Drue Reeves wrote an interesting article at HBR on financial factors involved in making a move from technology infrastructure to outsourced service in the cloud. The main consequences are simply those of moving to a utility service. Continue reading
World Bank goes Open Access
There has been a steady trickle of institutions and organizations committing to open access to some subset of their data, with the UK government announcing opendata last year. Now the World Bank has become perhaps the first major international organization to require open access to its research outputs under a CC licensing scheme. Continue reading
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Google’s Project Glass
I gave a talk a month ago on what trends were going to shape organizational applications over the next five years, and a couple of those design forces were the increasing ubiquity of mobile compute endpoints and augmented reality/interaction with your environment. Google has just released some information, pics and video on Project Glass that indicate that they have been working on something big that fits into that space for awhile. Continue reading
Leading Through a Team
I was reading an article on HBR about leading through a team and it made some good points about how micro-management will kill the team, and the difference between a work group and a team. Continue reading