Today’s ‘Anti Virus’ Network
An interesting ‘Advice” article by Thomas H. Benton appeared in today’s Chronicle of Higher Education titled “Teaching in the Plague Year”; the title alone caught my attention immediately. The term “plague” actually is in reference to the norovirus that swept across many college campuses last year but needless to say, Benton draws parallels to this […]
A ‘Vote’ for Open Source
It is true that much about the value of open source software, and openness more generally seems counter intuitive. I assume that this has something to do with being conditioned to think in terms of scarcity rather than abundance. I suppose also that’s why we hoard things and that a large part of our behavioral […]
At IBM Online ‘Jam’ Session, College Students Voice Ideas for More Innovation
Thanks to an insightful piece here at Campus Technology, we learn that IBM has issued its findings from its so-called Smarter Planet University Jam which it held in April and which involved more than 1,500 students. The session, which also included faculty and business people, had a wide-ranging scope of issues, but in one […]
Friday Fives: Twitter Defined in Five Terms
Are you an absolute newbie to Twitter? First, let’s get the definition out of the way. Twitter.com defines their free web application as: “Social networking and microblogging service utilizing instant messaging, SMS or a web interface.” Still not with me? Let’s deconstruct Twitter’s definition:
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