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Google, MOOCs, and the evolution of work and education
I mentioned in a recent post about the growing importance of Google+. Fast Company have just written a nice post on the coming domination of Google+ There are some great examples in the piece...
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There really are no silver bullets
Of all the monsters that fill the nightmares of our folklore, none terrify more than werewolves, because they transform unexpectedly from the familiar into horrors. For these, one seeks bullets of...
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Archeology of the Digital future, from Gutenberg to Al-Qaeda
The paperback version of Johnny Ryan’s “A History of the Internet and the Digital Future” was launched in Hodges & Figgis this evening. Lots of very clever people have written very nice things...
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Microsoft Azure beats Amazon as Cloud Platform.
I had a very interesting conversation with a friend over the weekend on Cloud platforms. One thing I learned is that Microsoft Azure beats Amazon as Cloud Platform in an evaluation performed by Nasuni....
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Send in the Drones? FBI Investigating a Drone at JFK Airport
Via twitter comes the news that the FBI are Investigating a Drone at JFK Airport. On Monday, March, 4, 2013, at approximately 1:15 p.m., the pilot of Alitalia Flight #608 spotted a small, unmanned...
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Alas poor Tweetdeck. Twitter, Rivers and Real-time Sensor Networks
The old Tweetdeck (version 0.38 ) started to die today. It’s build around the Twitter version 1.0 API which has been deprecated by Twitter in its move to the Version 1.1 API. There is a detailed and...
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Multiple screens, flow and the problem with apps
My desk has a lot of screens on it. One of the screens runs to a Windows 7 desktop. It also runs a few terabytes of archive material. Two center screens are my MacBook and its extended desktop. The...
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Monkeys, Memory, Culture and Context
There is an image doing the rounds on twitter at the moment. Its a visualisation of an old story, the parable of the Monkeys It happened that there were three monkeys in a cage. Suspended at the top if...
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EirCON: Lies, damn lies and the things Eircom tell a 79 year-old 40+ year...
Normally I don’t publish anything personal on this blog. After the treatment that my mother has had at the hand of Eircon over the past six weeks, this is an exception worth making. It is also an...
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Robbing Peter to Pay Ray
The problem with robbing Peter to pay Paul is that Peter generally turns up to collect on his debt. And Peter turns out to have a really brilliant legal team. Or worse Peter sends his friend Ray...
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