The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
PersonalBrain Webinar : February 15, 2012, 11 AM -12:00 PM Pacific, 2:00 – 3:00 PM Eastern Webinar FREE Online We’re all connected to a vast sea of information: twitter, email, news and social networking sites, blogs and corporate portals …But with all this information at our fingertips it begs the question: are we getting smarter …
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Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room David Weinberger Released 3 January 2012 Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody and Cognitive Surplus “Too Big To Know is Weinberger’s brilliant synthesis of myriad little debates—information overload, …
Is There a Difference Between Critical Thinking and Information Literacy? John M Weiner Abstract This paper investigates the similarities and differences between two important ideas in information processing and knowledge utilisation. Those ideas are [critical thinking] and [information literacy]. The two phrases are shown in brackets to indicate that the two words involved in each …
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Twitter acquisition confirms that curation is the future Mathew Ingram Gigaom, 21 January 2012 Twitter made an interesting acquisition on Thursday, when it bought a young Canadian startup called Summify, a company whose service (as its name implies) was designed to cut through the noise of all those social-media streams and summarize the content that …
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SwiftRiver Throws a Lifeline to People Drowning in Information There’s a problem that constantly plagues us in this day of information overload, and that is the ability to sift the stream of incoming information into the bits that are valuable from those that aren’t. It’s a tough issue that we’ve been working on at Ushahidi …
Bottlenose Intelligent Social Dashboard Launches Private Beta Jon Mitchell ReadWriteWeb, December 12, 2011 In the words of Nova Spivack, we are approaching The Sharepocalypse. The real-time Web sounded like a great idea, but it has become impossible to manage. The success of social media has proven, ironically, to be its biggest challenge. The services we …
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Digital Literacy: Search Algorithms are Mechanical Turks John Jones DMLcentral, December 8, 2011 One of the most pervasive features of computing culture are algorithms, the sets of processes or instructions contained in computer code that determine how a particular task will be completed. While algorithms power everything from your automatic coffee maker to your smart …
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