“ 1 in 4 adults in the UK have never used the internet
October 8, 2009
September 21, 2009
“ As an author I was particularly chastened by the following passage: ‘Every year, more than 120,000 new books are published in Britain, creating millions of volumes that will never be opened, let alone read. Many of these unread books are shredded into tiny fibre pellets called bitumen modifier, which can be used to make roads, holding the blacktop in place and doubling up as a sound absorber. A mile of motorway consumes about 50,000 books. The M6 Toll Road used up two-and-a-half million old Mills and Boon novels, romantic dreams crushed daily by juggernauts.’ Better than burning them. Better - in many cases - than reading them.
September 17, 2009
“ Facebook, the popular social networking site, agreed on Thursday to make changes to better protect the personal information of its users as a result of negotiations with Canada’s privacy commissioner.
September 15, 2009
“ Maximize the effectiveness of your most costly technology investment — your people. As technology itself falls in price per unit, your staff is likely to get more expensive. So pay attention to what is required to make the most effective use of them. This means getting them the training and resources they need to do their job well. I can’t believe how many administrators skimp on hardware and make their staff make do with inadequate amounts of RAM and processors when they are the least expensive part of the equation. Believe me, you do not want your most expensive resource sitting around waiting for your least expensive resource to boot up.
September 9, 2009
“ Sonys trådløse eBogs-læser vil dog tilbyde ekstra funktionalitet i form af gratis, virtuelle bogudlån hos biblioteket.
September 7, 2009
“ A typical avatar in Second Life consumes the same amount of electricity each year as an average Brazilian in real life. Ref: Rough Type (US).
September 4, 2009
“ Hearing those who operate differently is hard, but worth it.
April 22, 2009
“ What does it mean to put your resume on Google Docs? I’m not sure we’ve really thought through that question. If you use Gmail (so Google is serving up ads based on your messages), the Google search engine (so the big G knows what you’re searching and is showing you ads based on that), your calendar is in gCal, and you use gTalk (just to name a few Google services), that means Google has assembled a pretty good picture of you. How comfortable would you be if all of that data resided with Microsoft? Yahoo? The government? Your ISP? Your employer? A company like Fox that’s owned by Rupert Murdoch?
August 7, 2008
“ Mathematician Grace Hopper of the U.S. Naval Reserve joined Aiken’s team at Harvard and was instrumental in keeping the Mark I running. She repaired it one day by removing a moth that had fouled the Mark I’s electromechanical innards, becoming the first person to debug a computer. She then coined the term computer bug.
August 4, 2008
“ So, synchronization and syndication become much more important. The institutional website is still important, but a service strategy which focuses on that alone will be increasingly partial.
