TED | TEDBlog: What will change everything? Edge.org's annual question (4)
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Edge.org's annual question for 2009 is: "What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?" With thoughtful answers from 151 thinkers and doers, including TED's Chris Anderson and an array of TEDTalks stars, this is a document to savor as we start the new year. Helen Fisher writes: Hidden Persuaders '09: Every time we do or think or feel anything the brain is doing something. But what? And can we use ...
MySpace now bundled with Virgin Mobile (1)
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Virgin Mobile and MySpace have announced a partnership that will now see MySpace available on Virgin Mobile (only for wap-enabled phones). Users can access MySpace by clicking the MySpace link on vBytes (users pay a daily charge of Rs. 5/- for accessing vBytes) and can access the socionet on their mobile. This is a significant move for MySpace (claims user base of 1.2 million in India), given Virgin Mobile’s positioning as a youth product (and ...
English Lessons Through Radio (1)
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In India, radio has always been a popular medium of instruction, especially in the rural sector. It has functioned not only as a device for entertainment, but also one which dispenses relevant information to its user. The radio has now assumed a new role- that of an English teacher!Via BBC NewsThere is pin drop silence in a crammed classroom at a government primary school in the northern Indian state of Bihar. The students are looking ...
Children Make Their Own Tech-tionary! (1)
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From the Frontline World Website:Across India, kids use their regional dialects to come up with terms for the new images they're seeing as they log on to computers for the first time.What unusual words have you heard from kids you interact with?
How 'Free' Became a Best Seller (1)
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Its quite exciting to know the outcomes of trends and initiatives we were tracking last year (Refresh your minds by rewinding back to "Free! Free! Free! and "On Free Music").Which MP3 album topped the charts in 2008?"And the results..."*deep breath*"The best selling MP3 album of the year was free"The best-selling MP3 album at Amazon in 2008 was Nine Inch Nails’ Ghosts I-IV, which was released free under a Creative Commons license. NIN fans could have ...
Forgot to write the copy (1)
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I ran into this copy writing (or lack thereof) gem while trying to retrieve my password from a web site today. What kind of online password retrieval states that your new password will "probably" be sent to you by email? "Probably?" Does the system not know how password retrieval requests are handled?
Op-Ed Columnist - Fighting Off Depression - NYTimes.com (1)
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Let’s not mince words: This looks an awful lot like the beginning of a second Great Depression. Will we “act swiftly and boldly” enough to stop that from happening?
The best selling MP3 album of the year was free (51)
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Cool news: The best-selling MP3 album at Amazon in 2008 was Nine Inch Nails’ Ghosts I-IV, which was released free under a Creative Commons license. The album made more than $1.6 million in revenue for NIN in its first week, and hitting #1 on Billboard’s Electronic charts, Last.fm has the album ranked as the 4th-most-listened to album of the year, with over 5,222,525 scrobbles. The Creative Commons blog notes: NIN fans could have gone to ...
Twitter Gets Hacked, Badly (45)
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Phishing attacks, which hit Twitter over the weekend, are a sign a service has arrived (Facebook has the same problem). But someone hacking into Twitter’s internal admin tools and compromising 33 high profile accounts, including President Elect Barack Obama, has Twitter users freaking out about what to do. Here is Twitter’s official explanation: This morning we discovered 33 Twitter accounts had been “hacked” including prominent Twitter-ers like Rick Sanchez and Barack Obama (who has not ...
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CoenM said:
Toch mijn wachtwoord maar eens gewijzigd...
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Gabriele Savio said:
I knew it! Bill is gay!
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ravidor said:
O s**t, there goes the Twitter.
Karnataka Education News (1)
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The state government is considering extending Nali-Kali (an innovative "joyful learning" curriculum) to older students, TOI reports:The state government proposed to extend the Nali-Kali programme to Class 3 and 4, announced chief minister B S Yeddyurappa said at the board meeting of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA). “The state has got a good response for improvisation of learning process and it's achievement in the implementation of the project,” he said.And, in other news, Karnataka's mid-day meal ...
L O N G Recession (3)
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The WSJ on the current recession, on track to be one of the longest ever” “The current U.S. recession, with no end in sight, threatens to be the longest since 1933, and that helps explain why investors are having so much trouble gauging the stock market. Models developed in the more normal times of the past few decades, based on things like corporate-profit forecasts, the interest-rate environment or the length of the average recession, have ...
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elroy said:
I find it funny that we can back date the recession a year.
Media law takes away right to information, other liberties (2)
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The Kenya Communications (Amendment) Act 2008 restricts the use of electronic gadgets for individual and business purposes. The Nation reports. Mobile phone owners are not allowed to change the facial appearance of their handsets or customise the phone features to their convenience. The law declares reprogramming of mobile phones illegal. You cannot even install fancy ringtones. The law makes it mandatory for text messages to be traced to the original sender, especially if they are ...
Al Jazeera To Come Pre-Installed on Some Sony Phones (1)
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The Al Jazeera Network has announced a partnership with Sony Ericsson, where RSS feeds of its news content will be pre-installed on four models of its mobile devices in both the Middle East and North Africa. The new initiative is part of the news organization’s development Labs in an effort to reach out to more readers through new media. In addition to services like podcasts, a YouTube channel, Facebook account, an iPhone application and multiple ...
The End of the Financial World as We Know It (5)
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In an Op-Ed piece for the NY Times called The End of the Financial World as We Know It, Michael Lewis and David Einhorn explore what checks and balances should have been in place to prevent the US financial markets from running themselves into the ground in search of perpetual short-term gain. Our financial catastrophe, like Bernard Madoff's pyramid scheme, required all sorts of important, plugged-in people to sacrifice our collective long-term interests for short-term ...
Trends in Counterfeit Currency (14)
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It's getting worse: More counterfeiters are using today's ink-jet printers, computers and copiers to make money that's just good enough to pass, he said, even though their product is awful. In the past, he said, the best American counterfeiters were skilled printers who used heavy offset presses to turn out decent 20s, 50s and 100s. Now that kind of work is rare and almost all comes from abroad. [...] Green pointed to a picture hanging ...
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Joseph said:
Better brush up on what cash looks like...
Grassroot Comics (1)
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One of our previous posts, 'C for Comics, Constitution and Civil Rights' , mentioned how comics were being used in Kandahar to inform people about important issues like the constitution, civil rights and legal reform. 'Grassroot Comics', or 'comics for social development' are becoming effective tools to communicate important socially relevant topics.Via The Hindu COMMUNICATING the evils of dowry, alcoholism, bride burning, female infanticide and such can be a difficult proposition. More so when it ...
Favorite Techie Cartoons of 2008 (1)
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Time for a good laugh. We found this on Wired : "Our 12 (Or So) Favorite Techie Cartoons of 2008".If it seems like technology and cartoon humor don't fit as well together as crusty old millionaires and big-boob gold-diggers, it's probably true. The principles that drive tech innovation are based on a certain amount of hopeful enthusiasm that is hard to make fun of sometimes. Many new gadgets focus on dry accumulative hardware developments that ...
