The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
A recent happiness study from Matthew Killingsworth and Daniel Gilbert found that the more our minds wander, the less happy we are. Summing the research, the New York Times wrote, “Whatever people were doing, whether it was having sex or reading or shopping, they tended to be happier if they focused on the activity instead …
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Everyone wants to be a news filter now Mathew Ingram Gigaom.com, 21 September 2011 As the avalanche of information coming through social networks and real-time tools like Twitter continues to grow, the need for filters to make sense of that tsunami of data also increases, and it seems as though everyone has a different way of …
Announcing a new Rheingold U course: Toward a New Literacy of Cooperation For the past ten years, I’ve worked with Institute for the Future to track the emergence of a new story about how humans get things done together. The old story of survival of the fittest, competition, rational self-interest is changing as new knowledge …
YouTube Founders Revamping a Site for Link Sharing Jenna Wortham New York Times, 11 September 2011 SAN MATEO, Calif. — Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have some experience with turning a small Web site into Internet gold. In 2006 they sold their scrappy start-up YouTube to Google for $1.65 billion. More recently they picked an …
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GoogleWebSearchEducation 01 Beyond The First Five Links (Tasha Bergson-Michelson–January 12/13, 2011–1 hour 9 minutes) 02 Tools for Assessing Authority on the Web (Julian Prentice–March 15/16, 2011–50 minutes) 03 Introduction to Maps for Research (Trent Maverick–April 12/13, 2011–1 hour 7 minutes) 04 Writing Successful Queries with Predictive Searching (Tasha Bergson-Michelson–May 4, 2011–57 minutes) Gathering and Filtering …
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Infotention Skills: From Information Overload to Knowledge Navigation An immersive learning experience from the Institute for Social & Network Literacy 21st Century Information Fluency Self-guided Assessment and Tutorial Packages Phi Beta Iota: US education, like the rest of government-dominated programs, is totally broken. Apart from the 22% now unemployed, another 22% can expect to be …
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30+ Cool Content Curation Tools for Personal & Professional Use As the web becomes more and more inundated with blogs, videos, tweets, status updates, news, articles, and countless other forms of content, “information overload” is something we all seem to suffer. It is becoming more difficult to weed through all the “stuff” out there and pluck out …
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