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Current Twitter trends: Google Wave, 'A real wife' -Media, News - The Independent
Google Wave has shot back up into the top of Twitter's list of trending topics on the morning of Friday, November 13.
Web Addresses May Go Beyond English
The Internet is set to undergo one of the biggest changes in its four-decade history, with the expected approval this week of international domain names — or addresses — that can be written in languages other than English, an official said yesterday. That change could potentially open up the Web to more people around the world as addresses could be in characters as diverse as Arabic, Korean, Japanese, Greek, Hindi and Cyrillic, in which Russian is written. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or Icann — the non-profit group that oversees domain names, or website addresses — is holding a meeting this week in Seoul.
School chooses Kindle; are libraries for the history 'books'? - USATODAY.com
A boarding school near Boston has begun getting rid of most of its library books. In their place: a fully digital collection. It could be the first school library, public or private, to forsake ink and paper in favor of e-books. It also represents...
Cursive cursed. Texting and e-mail trump handwritten notes | Get Schooled
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A story in the AJC today discusses the decline of cursive, noting that longhand has become a lost art in the era of text messaging, e-mail and Twitter.
D.C. Start-Up Envion Aims to Turn Trash to Fuel - washingtonpost.com
Plastic soda bottles, Big Gulp cups and empty sour cream containers get fed into the top of the three-story machine. About 10 minutes later, out the other side comes a light-brown synthetic oil that can be converted into fuel for a truck or a jet airplane.
Next: An Internet Revolution in Higher Education - BusinessWeek
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the whole bloated, expensive, lecture-based higher education system will face the first challenge to its very existence: open-source, online higher education that costs a fraction of four years at Harvard—but is good enough for employers who want a college graduate. "Universities will be forced to decide what they are. You know, are they going to be football teams with libraries attached?" McNealy asked. "That's what a lot of them are now."
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The idea of some kind of open-source, online, low-cost revolution in education has become a lit fuse, sparking and crackling its way toward an explosion. Here and there, in places ranging from Silicon Valley to Indonesia, a few bold universities and entrepreneurs are taking pokes at the concept.
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