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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How Consumer Messaging Is Going From ‘Push’ to ‘Pull’
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streetfight...
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04/25/13 
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Logging on triggers a "search" of your profile by eager beavers
(Beavers that like to move you into the cash-register line (and chew on would).)
The biggest battle coming in the world of marketing is a 180-degree shift in the routing of commerce-related messages. Today, we call them “advertisements,” one-directional messages FROM somebody with something to sell TO somebody who may potentially be a ... (Trends: Local to Granfalloon,Privacy is a feeling,Audience to Participants,Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public),New Value Moment)
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The End of the Web, Search, and Computer as We Know It
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WIRED...
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02/03/13 
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Metaphors are as important as bones.
(I made that up.)
BY DAVID GELERNTER02.01.13
People ask what the next web will be like, but there won’t be a next web.
The space-based web we currently have will gradually be replaced by a time-based worldstream. It’s already happening, and it all began with the lifes... (Trends: Local to Granfalloon,Audience to Participants,Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion,New Value Moment)
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The Beginning of ‘White Flight’ from Facebook & Twitter?
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thesocietypages...
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08/13/12 
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()
Recently mentions of a new “real-time social feed” called App.net have been creeping into my Twitter feed. Just as the quietly simmering Diaspora and the running joke that is G+ were geared to seize on collective Facebook malaise, it seems App.net is tryin... (Trends: Local to Granfalloon,Privacy is a feeling,Class Warfare)
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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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Smart Phones Control Your Movements
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MCCORMICKNORTHWESTERN...
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03/20/12 
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Unconscious Granfalloons trace predetermined paths across the globe, at the bidding of the puppet masters.
(Big Fans of Free Will may find this news a bit chilling.)
Eighty-eight percent of Americans now own a cell phone, forming a massive network that offers scientists a wealth of information and an infinite number of new applications. With the help of these phone users and their devices cameras, audio recorders, a... (Trends: Local to Granfalloon,Solo to Swarm,Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public),Audience to Participants,Services become Games)
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YouTube 2.0 helping new stars redefine TV
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USAToday...
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06/02/11 
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Redefining TV is the effect of the process, not the goal.
(The real clue is the extension into media space of the passion of the enthusiast retailer.)
... (Trends: Audience to Participants, Local to Granfalloon, Synergy at Vortex Points)
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General Assembly Aims to Gather New York Techies
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NYT...
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05/07/11 
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Information, Energy, and Workflow create an explosive combination at the cutting edge of technology and culture.
(The key here may be the cutting edge of technology and culture.)
... (Trends: Local to Granfalloon, Synergy at Vortex Points)
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Traffic Bait Does Not Bring Ad Clicks
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NYT...
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10/24/10 
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Profitable stories are profitable because they engage readers, or deliver a commercial advantage.
(Bottom line: Engaged readers are good for advertisers. This should not be a surprise.)
By JEREMY W. PETERS
Published: October 17, 2010
RECOMMEND
TWITTER
E-MAIL
SEND TO PHONE
PRINT
REPRINTS
SHARE
Sure, articles about Lindsay Lohans repeat trips to rehabilitation and Brett Favres purported sexual peccadilloes generate loads of re... (Trends: Local to Granfalloon, Audience to Participants)
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Google Weaves Social Media Into Search
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READWRITEWEB.COM...
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09/16/10 
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It'w Not What You're Looking For.
(It's who your chatting with/about when you're looking for that counts)
Mike Melanson
As we get closer to - and hear more about - the launch of Google's upcoming social product, Google Me, the less and less it seems like a stand-alone social network and more like an interweaving of social connections into its existing offer... (Trends: Geography to Topic, Local to Granfalloon)
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Why a school beats Facebook: how behaviors spread through networks
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ARSTECHNICA...
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09/12/10 
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Multiple interpersonal connections speed the spread of behaviors.
(Disease, on the other hand, spreads primarily by contact.)
content
"By Kate Shaw | Last updated 3 days ago
We all spend much of our days engaged in social networks, whether its online, at work, or out with our friends, and we have a tendency to pick up new habits through these connections. A new study in Scie... (Trends: Local to Granfalloon,Solo to Swarm,Audience to Participants)
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Is Twitter a national mood ring?
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CNN...
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08/09/10 
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We can see what you're thinking.
("Never before have academic researchers had access to this much real-time public information about what people are thinking and saying.")
... (Trends: Known Source to Crowdsource, Audience to Participant, News to Meta News, Local to Granfalloon)
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Why Designers Hate Crowdsourcing
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FORBES...
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07/29/10 
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Crowdsourcing Greatest Threat to Publishing, Too.
(Crowdsourcing combines the best features of professional-quality work and slavery, with just a touch of fluff and BS. Not the best place to look for truth.)
Experienced designers disdain companies like 99designs, which thrives on hordes of people willing to work for a mere chance at a payout.
Mix crowdsourcing, the Internet and a huge pool of underemployed graphic designers, and the outcome is a company tha... (Trends: Known Source to Crowdsource, Local to Granfalloon)
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Few Americans Use Twitter
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EDISONRESEARCH...
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05/03/10 
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Twitter is a Seven Percent Solution.
(Thirty-two percent of Americans believe in ghosts, 37% percent believe their houses are haunted, 10% believe that the moon landing was staged. Oops. Over the 140-character limit.)
... (Trends: Local to Granfalloon, Mass Media to Atomized)
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Two-thirds of World Internet Users Use Social Media
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NIELSENWIRE...
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04/21/10 
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Member Communities activity soaked up one in every 15 online minutes in 2007, one in 11 in 2008 worldwide.
(The number is one is six in the U.K., and one in four in Brazil. Some suspect that US Teenagers actually spend more minutes online than living.)
http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/facebook_growth.png... (Trends: Local to Granfalloon, Mass Media to Atomized)
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RF's New Study of Online Behavior Focuses On User Intent
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RUDERFINN...
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03/08/10 
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Authors measure online activity by the categorical intent of the user.
(Learn, Have Fun, Socialize, Express Yourself, Advocate, Do Business, Shop.)
Study not available online.... (Trends: Local to Granfalloon,Services become Games)
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Dimensions of Online Behavior: Toward a User Typology
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LIEBERT...
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03/08/10 
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The salient features of online behavior are conceptualized as sociability (human connection motives), utility (efficiency orientation), and reciprocity (cognitive stimulation and active involvement)
(These are the attributes of paying attention.)
Online behavior refers to organized (e.g., search) and unorganized (e.g., browse) interactions with both human (e.g., chat) and nonhuman (e.g., database) elements in online environments. The salient features of online behavior are conceptualized as sociabi... (Trends: Local to Granfalloon,Solo to Swarm,New Value Moment,Mass Media to Atomized)
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The 11 Layers of Citizen Journalism
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POYNTER...
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02/23/10 
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Steve Outing's remarkable analysis of Citizen Journalism.
(Must reading.)
"Citizen journalism." It's one of the hottest buzzwords in the news business these days. Many news executives are probably thinking about implementing some sort of citizen-journalism initiative; a small but growing number have already done so.
RELATED R... (Trends: Audience to Participants, Known Source to Crowdsource, Local to Granfalloon)
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A newspaper business model that's workin
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CSM...
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05/07/09 
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Hyperlocal is not news to the small town paper.
(There is only "local" in small towns.)
y Dan McDonough Jr., Alan Bauer / May 6, 2009
Haddonfield, N.J.
It's widely reported and has become generally accepted that the newspaper model is either dying or already dead, when, in fact, thousands of newspapers across the country are doing qu... (Trends: Local to Granfalloon, Geography to Topic)
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Most Social Media Users Are Addicted
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WEBROOT...
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But we could quit anytime! Really! We don't really need it, I mean, not really, do we?
(Webroot's annual survey of Social Networking shows that users get lots of 'cookies' from their social media.)
Third annual report finds cybercrime on social networks continues to climb despite increased privacy and security measures
Broomfield, Colo., August 16, 2011
With malware showing no signs of abating on social networks and continuous news of the privacy i... (Trends: Local to Granfalloon, Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public), Audience to Participants)
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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.
Trends:
the conversation 08/10/16
Personality type plays a role in smartphone addiction. -- Check your phone 150-300 times per day? You are sick.
Trends:
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.
Trends:
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.
Trends:
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 . --
Trends:
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?"
Trends:
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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