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A good primer of MOOC's Marketing dilemna. It talks a bit about diluting a university's "brand"
The Udacity of hope: new online programs offer free courses to hundreds of thousands of students, while the business model still gets worked out.
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As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a "filter bubble" and don't get exposed to information that could challenge...
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Ken's Key Takeaway: It is nice that Google learns from you but it is also dangerous. Google and other search engiines and social networks decide what information is provided for you. Pariser gives the example of two people searching for Egypt. They took screen shots. One person's top results did not even indicate that there was an uprising. Delete the scoop?
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I still love this six-year-old Ted talk of how technology evolves and how it changes human thought evolution.
Differences, Freedom, Choices, Possibilities. Those are the four things that we want from any technology.
Tech enthusiast Kevin Kelly asks "What does technology want?" and discovers that its movement toward ubiquity and complexity is much like ... Delete the scoop?
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I explored a bit today. I see some promise. I also was already impressed with their work (but didn't know it was them) through TNW and The Guardian web sites. Delete the scoop?
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Ginger.io just won the $100,000 Data Design Diabetes challenge, because it silently analyzes your phone usage data to figure out if you're upset. For diabetes patients, that could be a lifesaver. 
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November 18, 2011 8:02 PM
Thank you Vonny!
Vonny has a good facebook news curation site at: http://www.scoop.it/t/facebook-facination Delete the scoop?
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Prominent futurist and author Ray Kurzweil has accepted a position as director of engineering at Google, where he plans to work on technology developments in language processing, machine learning, ...
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After yesterday's pathetic tragedy, I prefer to spend today focusing on the positive things about humanity and our steps int he right direction. I think today is a good day to unplug from the TV and technolgoy and just be a 1980-style human for a while. Delete the scoop?
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At 8 minutes in, you can see this human remotely turn on a lamp by 'double-clicking his hand (clapping) Ken This film by Ken Gumbs tackles the issue of pending greater-than-human artificial intelligence and the possible ramifications. Delete the scoop?
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Be scared, be very.....well nevermind. But it is pretty cool technology.
Had Narrative Science -- a company that trains computers to write news stories—created this piece, it probably would not mention that ...
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April 30, 2012 6:15 PM
Thank you for the rescoop. I am happy to find your high-quality site. I will share it with my students.
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