The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
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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Infotention “Managing attention & information” Created and curated by Howard Rheingold Discovery Engines: Policing The Riot Of Information Overload | Fast Company Taming this torrent into something manageable and highly relevant is increasingly seen as the key for Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and any other chaotic content network looking to realize monster revenue. That explains why …
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Infotention “Managing attention & information” Created and curated by Howard Rheingold Accessibility Vs. Access: The Filter Bubble And Human Information Curation | Maria Popova On Nieman Lab Human-driven information curation is the antidote to this algorithmic disconnect between access and accessibility: The primary purpose of an editor [is] to extend the horizon of what people …
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Contemplative Computing By Klint Finley / July 8, 2011 12:30 PM Last year when Nicholas Carr‘s book The Shallows hit the streets suggesting that the Internet was frying our brains (see our coverage) I asked what we could do to build a less brain damaging Internet. Since then I’ve been too, well, distracted to pursue …
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