Apple
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239
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Consumer Behavior
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Shared to Solo
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7
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Local to Granfalloon
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19
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Solo to Swarm
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19
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Addiction to Habit Forming Technologies
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13
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Privacy is a feeling
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18
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Information Pedigree
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Known Source to Crowdsource
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36
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Audience to Participants
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41
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Information overload vs ability to comprehend
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15
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Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion
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29
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Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public)
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29
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Content Aggregators Cloud The Truth
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21
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Detecting Pedigree Remotely
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18
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Media Biz Models
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Citizens seek broadband
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0
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Consumption to Creation
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1
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Creation to Aggregation
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35
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Location becomes Central
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4
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New Value Moment
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14
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News Worth
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Nameplate to Disembodied
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24
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The Renaissance of Copyright
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27
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Slope
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Desktop to Mobile
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12
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Centralized to Distributed
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32
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Mass Media to Atomized
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36
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Geography to Topic
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10
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Theory
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Research
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24
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Government-centric vs. Culturally deterministic
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7
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Class Warfare
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10
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Property Rights vs. Human Rights
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14
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Technological Determinism
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5
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Behavior Creates Structure
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11
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Value Moment
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Synergy at Vortex Points
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5
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Services become Games
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19
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Wisconsin citizens organizes to attract greater technology to their neighborhoods
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broadbandnow.org...
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05/11/15 
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good example of user=initiated demand for higher tech
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BroadBandNow was started in November, 2010 as a group of neighbors in Webster Township, Michigan trying to get the local telecom companies to extend broadband access to their neighborhood. They shared a common concern that the digital divide between the br... (Trends: Knowledge to Belief,Infrastructure to Nonfrastructure,Behavior Creates Structure)
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False facts and the conservative distortion machine: It’s much more than just Fox News
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Salon...
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08/18/14 
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It's not news that it's not news.
(It's also not news that it's not surprising. See the research abstract at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ssqu.12102/abstract)
By Paul Rosenberg, Salon
Citizens are misinformed — often badly so. It’s not just that they lack good information — which would merely make them uninformed — they have plenty of bad information that leads them to believe untrue things. Or more likel... (Trends: Knowledge to Belief,Data to Meta News,Solo to Swarm,Audience to Participants,Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion,Research,Services become Games)
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Republican Brains Differ From Democrats' In New FMRI Study
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PLOSONE...
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02/20/13 
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Left and right react differently, because our brains work differently.
(Related to the Cornell research on dem vs. rep behavior, this show differences in brain processing as well.)
By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 02/19/2013 11:08 AM EST on LiveScience
See original research at PlosOne.org
Whether you pulled the lever for ... (Trends: Knowledge to Belief,Government-centric vs. Culturally deterministic,Class Warfare,Property Rights vs. Human Rights)
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Graph Search's Dirty Promise and the Con of the Facebook 'Like'
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SteveCheney...
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01/17/13 
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A blog post promoted as news on Business Insider
(Why would a search based on a 50% lie be useful?)
We all know that the pressure for Facebook to monetize is massive and growing. Yesterday Zuckerberg fulfilled the promise he dropped at TC Disrupt to release a product that will finally compete with Google. To put socially relevant people, places, interest... (Trends: Knowledge to Belief,Solo to Swarm,Privacy is a feeling,Known Source to Crowdsource,Audience to Participants,Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion,Content Aggregators Cloud The Truth,Detecting Pedigree Remotely,Centralized to Distributed)
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Climate sceptics likely to be conspiracy theorists
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UWesternAustralia...
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07/27/12 
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2012/jul/27/climate-sceptics-conspiracy-theorists
(New research finds that sceptics also tend to support conspiracy theories such as the moon landing being faked)
Link
Original research pape... (Trends: Knowledge to Belief,Property Rights vs. Human Rights)
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Why 'Nigerian scammers' say they're from Nigeria
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ComputerWorld...
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06/20/12 
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Tired of being ripped off by amateurs?
(It's soooo much better when done by a professional.)
Rohan Pearce : Almost every inbox has been plagued by them: Emails offering a chance at a share of millions of dollars (or pounds or euros). Someone works at a Department of Finance or Department of Oil or is terminally ill or for some other reason needs ... (Trends: Knowledge to Belief,Detecting Pedigree Remotely,Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public))
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Instagram: The Porno Moment (Habit Forming Technologies)
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Nirandfar.com...
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06/20/12 
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"Internal triggers” enable us to control you minute-by-minute.
(Marketing tells you to "sit there and twitch". And so you do. And marketing tells you to "eat this." And so you do. And every cell-phone hugging, Facebook-addicted consumer is glad to have "Freedom.")
(original title: THE BILLION DOLLAR MIND TRICK: AN INTRO TO TRIGGERS by Nir Eyal and Jason Hreha) Yin asked not to be identified by her real name. A young addict in her mid-twenties, she lives in Palo Alto and, despite her addiction, attends Stanford Un... (Trends: Solo to Swarm,Addiction to Habit Forming Technologies,Knowledge to Belief,Creation to Aggregation,Mass Media to Atomized)
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Do You Believe in Magic?
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LifesLittleMysteries...
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04/23/12 
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Yes, you do.
(Really. Have a look. )
Even the most die-hard skeptics among us believe in magic. Humans can't help it: though we try to be logical, irrational beliefs — many of which we aren't even conscious of — are hardwired in our psyches. But rather than hold us back, the unavoidable habit... (Trends: Knowledge to Belief,Local to Granfalloon,Solo to Swarm)
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A journalism-free news media
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SALON...
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04/03/12 
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It's worse than just crowd-sourcing. It's finding the worst idiots, and idiot-sourcing.
("But for all of these trends, none is more disturbing than recent moves to challenge the the basic assumption that journalism is even necessary anymore. ... the ascendant notion in the media industry is that news organizations and American democracy can s)
BY DAVID SIROTA For those who still believe a democracy needs traditional journalism, this is a harrowing time, to say the least. Local newspapers, for a century the foundation of real reporting, continue laying off the reporters doing the scratch-and-cl... (Trends: Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion,Knowledge to Belief,Known Source to Crowdsource,Services become Games)
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The Higher Education Monopoly is Crumbling As We Speak
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THENEWREPUBLIC...
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03/16/12 
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College Degrees don't work for many Web-era jobs. Are there alternatives.
(Captain Kirk says that there are always alternatives. In this case, finding ways to evaluate the credibility of self-directed education in programming and content-creation skills is the challenge.)
In the last years of the nineteenth century, Charles Dow created an index of 12 leading industrial companies. Almost none of them exist today. While General Electric remains an industrial giant, the U.S. Leather Company, American Cotton Oil, and others hav... (Trends: Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public),Knowledge to Belief,Detecting Pedigree Remotely)
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The materialist fallacy
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NYT...
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02/16/12 
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Government-centric vs. culturally deterministic theories, again. Still. Forever. It's what makes democracy work.
(Social disorganization has a momentum of its own, handed down through generations like alcoholism, or child abuse.)
David Brooks, The New York Times: The half-century between 1912 and 1962 was a period of great wars and economic tumult but also of impressive social cohesion. Marriage rates were high. Community groups connected people across class.
In the half-centur... (Trends: Knowledge to Belief, Government-centric vs. Culturally deterministic)
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The Left Rolls With the Good; the Right Confronts the Bad -- Physiology and Cognition in Politics
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HUFFINGTON...
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02/12/12 
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They're that way for the same reason we're different. PDF FILE
(And the reason is: we're different.)
Kenneth R. MillerProfessor of biology, Brown University
America's got a Darwin problem -- and it matters. According to a 2009 Gallup poll taken on the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, fewer than 40% of Americans are willing to say that they ... (Trends: Information overload vs ability to comprehend, Knowledge to Belief)
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Bright Minds and Dark Attitudes
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PSYCHOLOGICALSCIENCE...
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02/04/12 
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Lower Cognitive Ability Predicts Greater Prejudice Through Right-Wing Ideology and Low Intergroup Contact
(Duh. I thought so. )
Gordon Hodson and Michael A. Busseri, Department of Psychology, Brock University, Ontario.
Despite their important implications for interpersonal behaviors and relations, cognitive abilities have been largely ignored as explanations of prejudice. We pro... (Trends: Knowledge to Belief,Research)
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WIKIPEDIA...
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09/06/11 
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Journalism is about selling your world-view.
()
--... (Trends: Knowledge to Belief,Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion)
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Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas
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SCIENCEBLOG...
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08/03/11 
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As ye think, so shall ye be.
(The influences of beliefs are routinely underestimated.)
Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society. The scientists, who are members of the Social Cognitive Ne... (Trends: Audience to Participants, Knowledge to Belief)
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The science of fanboyism
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TECHREPORT...
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07/16/11 
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I BELIEVE that I like Cheetos.
(Now that I have decided that I like Cheetos, you HAVE to like them too! Really!)
We've all encountered them. They lurk in Internet message boards, comment threads, and chatrooms. Addressing anyone and everyone, they type up lengthy tirades with Cheeto-stained fingers, extolling the virtues of their product or brand of choice. They angr... (Trends: Knowledge to Belief,Information overload vs ability to comprehend)
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Belief-Dependent Realism
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SCIENTFICAMERICAN...
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07/09/11 
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Beliefs come first; explanations for beliefs follow. I believe that.
(I believe I'll have a drink, and then I think I'll believe that Obama was born in the Duchy of Grand Fenwick.)
By Michael Shermer
Was President Barack Obama born in Hawaii? I find the question so absurd, not to mention possibly racist in its motivation, that when I am confronted with birthers who believe otherwise, I find it difficult to even focus on their ar... (Trends: Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion, Knowledge to Belief)
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Massive Censorship Of Digg Uncovered
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ALTERNET...
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08/08/10 
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Who knew you couldn't trust a shouting crowd?
(Crowd-sourced networks are vulnerable to devious maniulation. Majority rule is the danger in democracy.)
... (Trends: Knowledge to Belief, Known Source to Crowdsource)
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Latest Clips
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TechCrunch 09/03/16
"In the Experience Age, the primary input is visual and the dominant feedback is attention." -- The movement of attention up the chain fulfills the value creation.
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the conversation 08/10/16
Personality type plays a role in smartphone addiction. -- Check your phone 150-300 times per day? You are sick.
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TechCrunch 08/05/16
Facebook automatically filtering structure-induced content. -- Structure recognizes structure as a threat. Facebook responds to 'clickbait' content by filtering it out of newsfeeds. Therefore, content generated to meet the demands of structure are filtered.
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Financial Times 07/27/16
Mixed fortunes of the digital education business suggest hits are elusive "Content would be a great business if one produced only hits, but it never seems to work that way. The lack of barriers to anyone spending prodigious amounts of capital to create the next smash is what ensures a pedestrian return on that capital." -- This illustrates how the role of 'content' has changed away from the 'content of the content' to the role of the content in filling reserved holes in production and distribution structures.
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BackChannel 07/21/16
Copmpact for a Free, Open and Neutral Network: You have the freedom to use the network for any purpose as long as you don’t harm the operation of the network itself, the rights of other users, or the principles of neutrality that allow contents and services to flow without deliberate interference.
You have the right to understand the network and its components, and to share knowledge of its mechanisms and principles.
You have the right to offer services and content to the network on your own terms.
You have the right to join the network, and the obligation to extend this set of rights to anyone according to these same terms. -- How a self-configuring network was built.
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CED 07/14/16
Cord cut. -- All that wasted wire.....
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Gizmodo 06/15/16
Tightly cold makes better taste. -- See also scientific american study of coffee
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ScienceDaily 06/08/16
Wait a minute: can you see my hand? -- Oh, yeah, and concentration.
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Irish Independent 05/17/16
We showed in 1991 that print drives online participation. -- The Independent commissioned the study.
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Wired 05/01/16
User pressure for bandwidth is having the predictable effect. --
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eurekalert 04/22/16
"So, like, I realized I was only going 20 in a 50, and I said 'Hey, man, check it out. I'm only going uh, uh, uh. Cool.'" -- Wait a minute; can you see my hand?
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ScienceDaily 04/21/16
Evidence of a compromised dopamine system has been found in heavy users of marijuana. -- Like, heavy, man.
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ScienceDaily 04/18/16
Adding coffee to the diet of people with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) could help reverse the condition, according to a new study conducted in mice . --
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slashdot @ apple.com 04/16/16
The structure expects consumers behavior 'X'. Consumers behave 'X'. Production expands. -- Q. #2 of How does Apple conduct its Product Greenhouse Gas Life Cycle Assessment?": "To model customer use, we measure the power consumed by a product while it is running in a simulated scenario. Daily usage patterns are specific to each product and are a mixture of actual and modeled customer use data. Years of use, which are based on first owners, are assumed to be four years for OS X and tvOS devices and three years for iOS and watchOS devices. More information on our product energy use is provided in our Product Environmental Reports." Point number 2 for the question "How does Apple conduct its Product Greenhouse Gas Life Cycle Assessment?"
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Addiction to Habit Forming Technologies, Technological Determinism,Behavior Creates Structure,Services become Games
ScienceDaily 04/15/16
Effect similar to other addictions -- Yup.
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