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I just watched Harvard Beats Yale 29-29, a documentary about the 1968 football Game between Harvard and Yale. The game is one of the …
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Joi Ito posted about the cognitive limits of organizations at the MIT Media Lab blog. Ito posts a thought provoking slide by Cesar …
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Textexpander on the Macintosh is one of the those utilities that becomes more and more useful over time. Just the other week I was …
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Steve Kelling from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the eBird project presented the second ASIST 2011 keynote on citizen science. …
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ASIST 2011 kicked off with a keynote by Tom Wilson on the challenges of preservation in the digital age. What we know about the past …
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Summary of the big data explosion from the 2011 Strata Online conference sponsored by O’Reilly. Three interlocking changes …
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I just watched a very nice speech by one of my favorite actors, Kevin Spacey, on the importance of public funding for the arts. Spacey …
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I often hear people talk about the value of information being available in a very general sense. These kind of claims seem to arise …
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