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For Most People, College Is a Waste of Time - WSJ.com
Advanced skills for people with brains really did get more valuable over the course of the 20th century, but the acquisition of those skills got conflated with the existing system of colleges, which had evolved the BA for completely different purposes.
WowJoomla.com | WowJoomla.com
the foundation of the anticipated success of Joomla 1.5 is the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architechture it was built with.
Why I didn't switch from jQuery to ExtJS after all
There are four reasons I didn’t end up switching from trusty jQuery. Size, familiarity, purpose, and license.
The Rest of the Rest of Us
People with more resources see the world differently. It shapes our world view. The things we possess are not just these things but (to us) symbols of hope and signs of optimism that good things are possible. Technologists, by definition, are people who n
The “wall” that nobody ever wanted is about to be torn down, and opinions will be reunited with facts « The Future of News
Like monks who are disciplined not to talk, it’s as if journalists are disciplined not to think – or at least not enough to have an opinion. And that leaves us on our own, presumably so we can spend our days doing what none of us chose to do in our li
Vitamin Features » Launching a UK Start-Up: Seven Lessons Learned
Three months ago we launched in London and we’re now gearing up for nationwide launch. A soft launch was a great way to get things right before we hit the rest of the country, here’s some of the other lessons we’ve learned so far:
7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails - O'Reilly Ruby
SUMMARY: I spent two years trying to make Rails do something it wasn’t meant to do, then realized my old abandoned language (PHP, in my case) would do just fine if approached with my new Rails-gained wisdom.
Buzzword, The First Real Word Processor for the Web
I’m not writing in my usual text editor today. Today, I’m writing in the web’s first real word processor. At least, that is what the team at Virtual Ubiquity has to say about their partially unveiled masterpiece. They’ve also chosen what is quite
ben barren - rss'ing down under: The Prequel : What is the Twitter Business Model ?
It's often said in the m.echochamber that there are two types of people : Those that don't get twitter, and those that use it. It's a post blogging hourly used beyond web utility that allows ambient intimacy as Leisa called it, and for myself it's the onl
Single Line CSS // Ordered List by Steve Smith
I've been going against convention when creating my CSS files for over two years now. I put my selector, brackets, and attribute/value pairs all on a single line in my CSS file. And I love it. Let me show you why.
hyperempowered : Building Companies So That Others Can Profit
"..he needs to figure out a way to build the company so that many others can profit from it." What impresses me so much about the comment is that it truly is the perfect definition of "Web 2.0"
Jason didn't bring us a win-win (Scripting News)
Bottom-line, he needs to figure out a way to build the company so that many others can profit from it.
Eric Schmidt Defines Web 3.0
Google CEO Eric Schmidt was recently at the Seoul Digital Forum and he was asked to define Web 3.0 by an audience member. After first joking that Web 2.0 is "a marketing term", Schmidt launched into a great definition of Web 3.0. He said that while Web 2.
Web 2.0 Inefficiency: Crossposting On Twitter, Facebook, Google Reader, Etc. » Publishing 2.0
So I got my Publishing 2.0 feed set up to crosspost to Facebook and Twitter, but I’m wondering about the utility of doing so, given that most of the people I’m connected to on Facebook and Twitter also subscribe to my regular blog RSS feed.
Mike Davidson: A Low-Fi Solution to E-Mail Overload: Sentenc.es
I’ve written about e-mail overload issues in the past, and today I’m presenting what I believe is a simple, low-fi solution: sentenc.es.
The Impact of the Social Web on Personal Organization
In the software industry, “the way things have always been done” is often an alluring road but it leads to a stifling of innovation. We believe that the tools used for personal organization (especially for the mainstream and younger demographic) are r
Creating Passionate Users: The Asymptotic Twitter Curve
Twitter, it seems, is the solution to the one problem we all have: it's just too damn hard to keep updating our blog every few minutes to tell the world what we're doing at that very moment.
Some intimate details on the Google YouTube Deal - Blog Maverick
In the months preceding the sale of YouTube the complaints from copyright owners began to mount at a ferocious pace. Small content owners and big were lodging official takedown notices only to see their works almost immediately reappear. These issues had
Techworld.com - Windows Vista the last of its kind
Vista will be the last version of Windows that exists in its current, monolithic form, according to Gartner.
The Best Web-Based Computer Applications For Small Business - Forbes.com
Desktop programs are a thing of the past, replaced by free, simple, Web-based apps that do everything from spreadsheets to e-mail--and more!
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