Intel cites US education 'crisis' (1)
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By Maggie Shiels Technology reporter, San Francisco The chairman of the world's biggest computer chipmaker has said the US "education system is in crisis and failing the youth of today". Craig Barrett, who made his "one political statement" at the Intel developers' forum being held in San Francisco, urged US politicians to act. He told the audience: "Nations are as strong as their educational systems. "The rest of the emerging world recognises this is the ...
Grading with Games: An Interview with James Paul Gee (1)
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An Arizona State University professor sees a bright future for video games in the learning process -- in and out of school.
Is Broadband OPEC 2? (1)
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OPEC 2.0 By TIM WU Published: July 30, 2008 AMERICANS today spend almost as much on bandwidth — the capacity to move information — as we do on energy. A family of four likely spends several hundred dollars a month on cellphones, cable television and Internet connections, which is about what we spend on gas and heating oil. Just as the industrial revolution depended on oil and other energy sources, the information revolution is fueled ...
Leadership 101 at the Movies? (3)
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Last week I directed a leadership retreat for the student leaders at the Center for the Advancement of Leadership. The past couple of years I have helped develop and train students involved in the program. As I presented the different workshops, I was reminded of the blog post that Mike Dover wrote a few months back about movies that represent a generation. Leaders have been scratching their heads trying to figure out what the Net ...
Google releases near-final Android programming tool (2)
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Google on Monday released the first beta version of its software developer kit (SDK) for Android phones, a significant step in the company's hope for "open" phone technology. Google, which is leading the 34-company Open Handset Alliance to create the largely open-source Android software stack for mobile devices, already had released an "early look" SDK in November 2007. With the new beta SDK, though, the company is telling programmers they can get started in earnest ...
The economics of sustainability present a recipe for political success (1)
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Academia is usually pretty far removed from the nuts and bolts of presidential campaigning, but what I recently saw in an MIT Sloan School of Management classroom shows hope for not only the global challenge of sustainability, but for how it can be met in a win-win way for both economics and politics.
Presidential campaigns, journalists share lists on Google Reader (2)
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Google's new "Power Readers in Politics" shares lists and articles followed by the presidential campaigns and political journalists.
Traders Start Snapping Up U.S. Carbon Futures On The Cheap (1)
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Trading in preparation for America’s first mandated cap-and-trade scheme for greenhouse gas emissions started on Friday on the Climate Futures Exchange. Futures and options contracts for 70,000 permits were traded under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a cooperative of 10 Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states whose governments have agreed to cap the emissions from power generation beginning in January of 2009. The first set of allowances will be auctioned off in September this year. The RGGI ...
Future PR Skills 2008: Create a "New Media Relations" Program (1)
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Part of a series A lot has been written about how media relations as a discipline has been changed due to: the social media and consumer generated media explosion decline in trust in traditional media...
"35 new wind turbine competitors from China, not one from US" (2)
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Thomas Friedman has been on an energy kick of late. His latest column illuminates some of the reasons why Denmark doesn't seem to worry about high gas prices. For one, half the Danes bike to work. That alone should do it. But it also has real implications on the employment side as well:Because it was smart taxes and incentives that spurred Danish energy companies to innovate, Ditlev Engel, the president of Vestas — Denmark’s and ...
NYC’s Cyber Safety Summit (1)
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I had the pleasure of attending NYC’s Cyber Safety Summit on Saturday, August 9th at City Hall and loved it. The goal of the summit was to educate parents, students, educators, and the community at large about how to keep our children safe in the Internet Age. Internet threats like cyberbullying — bullying but magnified by the power of technology — are becoming increasingly common with horrific and sometimes deadly effects. The M.C. was Parry ...
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YouTube appears to the be new metric or determinant of success (i.e. number of hits, presence). Having a YouTube channel is now as necessary as having a blog was 3 or 4 years ago. I was reviewing the new OpenUniversity channel when I came across this link to OpenLearn. OpenLearn has the ambitious goal of not just making learning resources available, but also providing the tools that enable learners to remix and reuse existing content. ...
NBC Olympics: We Don't Care If You Hate Us, You're Watching USA-China Basketball On Tape Delay (6)
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NBC actually showed Michael Phelps live on the east coast last night as he shattered his own world record in the 400 IM. We watched--and, suddenly, the Olympics were as awesome as, well, the Olympics. If you live on the west coast, of course, thanks to another absurd decision by NBC, you only got to watch the race after reading about Phelps' victory online, when it was about as exciting as 1970s Superbowls. (And as ...
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I think they're dead on here. Just broadcast it live, with commericals, and then broadcast it again during the highlight show! AND stream. Just Do It.
Iraq, China Set To Revive $1.2 Billion Oil Deal (1)
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BAGHDAD — Iraq and China are set to revive a $1.2 billion oil deal that was canceled after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, the Iraq's oil ministry said Sunday. An initial agreement with China is expected to be signed at the end of August to develop the billion-barrel Ahdab oil field south of Baghdad, the ministry said in a statement. "Iraq and China are keen to show their cooperation by finalizing an agreement on developing the ...
Is Algae the Best Solution to Peak Oil? (16)
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"All countries must take vigorous, immediate and collective action to curb runaway energy demand. The next ten years will be crucial for all countries... We need to act now to bring about a radical shift in investment in favor of cleaner, more efficient and more secure energy technologies." ~Nobuo Tanaka, head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) Big oil had better start worrying. Common algae from ponds and waste-water treatment plants has been found to ...
Robertson: Ten tips for succeeding at collaboration (3)
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James Robertson of StepTwo posted his slides for a recent presentation entitled, Ten tips for succeeding at collaboration (with audio). Along with the tips, he includes some background around the ideas he presents. Nice. Ten tips for succeeding at collaboration [+ audio] view presentation (tags: blogs sharepoint wikis openpublish08) Here are the enumerated tips (in American English :-). And a few of my thoughts sprinkled through. Get ahead of the curve. "Thousands of uncoordinated wikis ...
15 Abilities You Must Have if You Ever Want to Get Out of the Rat Race (29)
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Did you know that FORTY percent - 40% - of young people want to be their own boss someday? That’s a LOT of aspiring entrepreneurs. Millions, in fact. Truth is, only a fraction of those people ever really start a business. Some get comfortable in a lifestyle that they can’t afford to give up. Others realize just how hard it is to be an entrepreneur and never try. Sometimes life just happens and makes entrepreneurship ...
Japan close to declaring recession (1)
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Japan's government may be forced to declare that the country has entered a technical recession, although any downturn is likely to be shallower than previous contractions
