Who are these people?
I caught a few minutes of the Diane Rehm show this morning about Cyber Security. One of the guests, Paul Kurtz is a “cyber security consultant, formerly served as senior director, Office of Cyberspace...
View ArticleThe early polite bird gets the (re) tweet
How can you increase your likelihood of being “re-tweeted” (having your twitter status update copied and forwarded onto others’ streams)? Turns out, through Mashup analysis, Dan Zarella can show that a...
View ArticleThe relationship between facebook usage and academic performance
A recent study at Ohio state University by Aryn Karpinski and Adam Duberstein (Ohio Dominican University) found that facebook usage was associated with lower GPAs, and less time studying. Those who use...
View ArticleSpam, Spam, Mail, Spam, and Spam
Each year, spammers generate 62 Trillion junk emails. That’s Trillion, not Billion or Million. The energy is takes to send and store those emails could power 2.4 million homes for the same year. Also,...
View ArticleMaybe I could blog more …
Crikey! I just got slapped with a wet salmon – really – I have not updated this since you last visited… You would not believe how insane my life has become. But I’m sorry you’ll just have to take my...
View ArticleTPACK Newsletter #4 (Aug-Sept 2009)
(Access other newsletters here) A new hope … Welcome to the fourth edition of the TPACK Newsletter, now with 494 subscribers (representing a 36% increase during the last four months!), and appearing...
View ArticleSchools kill creativity
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity. Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the...
View ArticleWhy the office is the worst place to work
Via CNN, I found this article to be really interesting and spot on, along with the TED video: Companies spend billions on rent, offices, and office equipment so their employees will have a great place...
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