Notable Reads
Posted: January 1, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: education, politics, sciene, security, technology Leave a comment »- The Molotov Party. Frank Rick of New York Magazine, explains the GOP.
- New York Times on understanding Mitt Romney.
- Joseph Stiglitz on the US economy.
- Ayn Rand and her influence on US society.
- Glenn Greenwald on Christopher Hitchens.
- In the Independent: What price the new democracy? Goldman Sachs conquers Europe.
- The Surveillance Catalog - where governments get their snooping tools.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson Lists 8 (Free) Books Every Intelligent Person Should Read.
- Sir Ken Robinson on Creative Education.
- New Zealand and Charter Schools.
- Clive Thompson on Why Kids Can’t Search.
- People out of touch with nature and Climate Change - Sir David Attenborough.
- Google, Chrome and the importance of Firefox.
- A case study in the muddle that is Android software updates.
- When Criminals Become Data Scientists.
- Internet surveillance, censorship, and avenues of resistance with anonymity - Jacob Appelbaum (scroll down).
- Jan Chipchase, It’s your Face, Not Ours.
- The Social Graph is Neither.
- Why The New York Times Isn’t Using Facebook’s ‘Frictionless Sharing’.
Notable Reads
Posted: November 28, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: biometric, education, innovation, museum, politics, reads, stevejobs Leave a comment »Notable reads:
Big Biometric Database – what could possibly go wrong?
http://www.fastcompany.com/1790444/the-downside-of-biometrics-9-million-israelis-records-hacked
What would Socrates Say? Technology and Learning.
http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/sept09/vol67/num01/What-Would-Socrates-Say%C2%A2.aspx
Why Science Museums are Failing Adults
http://boingboing.net/2011/09/23/science-museums-are-failing-grown-ups.html
Neal Stephenson, Innovation Starvation
http://www.worldpolicy.org/journal/fall2011/innovation-starvation
Stephen Fry on Steve Jobs
http://www.stephenfry.com/2011/10/06/steve-jobs/single-page/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/14664694
Stephen Wolfrom remembers Steve Jobs
http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2011/10/steve-jobs-a-few-memories/
David Frum, Why I am a Republican
http://www.frumforum.com/why-i-am-a-republican
Notable Reads
Posted: September 25, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: google, internet, politics, poverty, web Leave a comment »This week’s notable reads.
“The arrogance of Web evangelists is staggering.” Joe Hewitt on the Web as a platform.
Christopher Hitchens on the death penalty.
Costs of poverty – Canada’s experiment.
Reflections of a former GOP operative.
“The net is a waste of time” William Gibson
Don Norman “”Google doesn’t understand people,” he said. “Have you ever spoken to a Google support person on the phone? They don’t have them. Sure, they’ll direct you to their blogs — where you’ll be lucky if you can find the answer you’re looking for — or they’ll let you give feedback. But do they ever give you feedback on your feedback?”
Evgeny Morozov – the Internet and political repression.
Notable Reads
Posted: August 21, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: customer loyalty, education, globalisation, nasa, politics, software, space Leave a comment »Marc Andreesson on the disruptive nature of software. Argument to a degree undermined by some of the examples not being real businesses
John Young writes on, US Education Secretary, Arne Duncan’s epiphany.
12 Nasa Blueprints – selected engineering drawings for the US space program.
In the Financial Times: ”A failure of economic strategy and leadership lies behind the near simultaneous collapse of market confidence in the eurozone and US economies.” Tripped up by globalisation.
Data is hard. In the Guardian, headlines that spring from faulty analysis.
Interview with Gorbachev.
“The companies who we appear loyal to are those that best help us define, refine, and express who WE are. “Your customer wont take a bullet for you – Kathy Sierra.
