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'Slow movement' wants you to ease up, chill out - CNN.com
Time - a precious commodity and key to democracy.
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Is Google's Social Graph API a Creeping Privacy Violation? - ReadWriteWeb
The long and short of the situation is this. The ability to determine social connections across multiple websites is a powerful thing. All of us should be asked to opt-in to allowing our social connections to be indexed.
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Cyber-nationalism | The brave new world of e-hatred | Economist.com
these cyber-zealots seem to be acting at their governments’ behest—but often they are working on their own, determined to outdo their political masters in propagating dislike of some unspeakable foe.
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Screw the '60s: It was a Mad Men's (i.e., sexist) world | CBC culture
"Oblivious to us, they talked patronizingly about a co-worker. "She's a new girl. She's well put together." Snicker. "She can handle a meeting," one of them said grudgingly. That's how they talk about women in Mad Men. That's how they talked in 1960 and h
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Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » Ethnographic Methods and Virtual Worlds: Notes Towards a Typology
"to set out what I term the “four confusions” regarding contemporary discussions of virtual worlds. "
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Borderline marking 'inflating A-level grades' | Education | The Guardian
"A-level and GCSE results are being artificially inflated by a marking process banned from use in Sats tests this year, experts have warned."
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Brand bullying growing, warn teachers | Education | The Guardian
"Almost half of the teachers questioned said young people who cannot afford the fashionable items owned by their friends have been excluded, isolated or bullied as a result."
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Connectivism blog
Connectivism is a learning theory for the digital age. Learning has changed over the last several decades. The theories of behaviourism, cognitivism, and constructivism provide an effect view of learning in many environments. They fall short, however, whe
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HopeLab: Innovative Solutions: Re-Mission™
Re-Mission™ is a video game developed specifically for adolescents and young adults with cancer. In Re-Mission™, players pilot a nanobot named Roxxi
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Job Descriptions From The Future: On hiring social media twits
Yes, big corporations will adopt social media to stay in touch with customers. But they'll do it by giving social media tools to existing parts of the organization: Customer support. Marketing. Public relations.
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Tiny houses for shrinking times - how about a Tumbleweed home?
Not sure you'll ever afford a dream house? Need to be mobile for where the jobs are? Want to be able to get away from it all - without leaving home? Behold, the Tumbleweed!
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BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » The myth of the creative class
"internet triumphalists, like me, argue that the internet opens up creativity past one-size-fits-all mass measurements and priestly definitions and lets us not only find what we like but find people who like what we do."
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Ai Weiwei: Why I'll stay away from the Olympics' opening ceremony | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
"I will stay away from the opening ceremony, because I believe the freedom of choice is the basis of fair competition. It is the right I cherish most."
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Melanie McBride online | Dippity timeline
My first attempt at a timeline on Dippity. Wish it displayed all posts.
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What Differentiates Yet Another Blog Post From A Professionally Web Published Article? - Robin Good's Latest News
"I find it rather a lack of professionality, or better yet a lack of appreciation for what makes published information valuable that often limits the opportunities and potential of many otherwise talented bloggers and web publishers."
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Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters
Lovers of apathy and irony, hipsters are connected through a global network of blogs and shops that push forth a global vision of fashion-informed aesthetics
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Our Paradoxical Attitudes Toward Privacy - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
Their findings: Our privacy principles are wobbly. We are more or less likely to open up depending on who is asking, how they ask and in what context.
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The Price of Oil, Tripled? An Attack on Iran Could Make It Happen | ForeignPolicy | AlterNet
"In short and simple terms, we would be plunged into a depression that would make the Great Depression of the 1930s in which I spent my childhood look like boom times," said William R. Polk, former professor of history at the University of Chicago"
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Government Children's Plan encourages teachers to take on parenting duties | Education | guardian.co.uk
"Schools are being required to take on more and more of the responsibilities that rightly belong to parents; and to provide more of the stability in children's lives which should be provided by families. There is also the perception that, in general, the
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Five places to save your hard-earned dime
to help you make ends meet, we've looked at five areas with potential to save a buck
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