ideaCity03 | Ideas Change the World

ideaCity03 | Ideas Change the World

This looks cool - wish I could afford to attend one day.

ACM: Ubiquity - A Conversation with Andrew Hargadon

Used parts of this interview as an introduction to my information literacy session for INNO323 yesterday. Very well received by the prof, and the students seemed to enjoy it too. The prof wonders if we could collect similar links over time - would be hard to get ones that are this good though!
ACM: Ubiquity - A Conversation with Andrew Hargadon: "The Trouble with Out-of-the-Box Thinking"

TCS: Tech Central Station - Blame Canada

TCS: Tech Central Station - Blame Canada

A good summary explaining why we appear to be able to legally swap music in Canada. No mention of the fact that none of the copyright levy has been distributed to artists though...

Interesting!

Scrambled words are legible as long as first and last letters are in place From Joi Ito's Web:

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whichbook.net

Here's a really neat looking book advisor site. This operates from the UK, and I haven't had a chance to really plow through it, but it looks like a great way to come up with some new titles to read...
whichbook.net