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Why the euro is doomed to fall apart: it was an incredibly stupid idea in the first place – Telegraph Blogs
The euro is doomed to fall apart: no, not because I’m some nasty man in UKIP but because the basic idea was such a terrible one.
Ancient Social Networks Mirror Today’s | News | The Harvard Crimson
Ancient human social networks exhibited several of the same properties as those of modern networks, a new Nature study suggests. The study, co-authored by professor of sociology Nicholas A. Christakis, is “one of the first, …
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“Information technology has become a ubiquitous presence. By visualizing the processes that underlie our interactions with this technology we can trace what happens to the information we feed into the network.” < Food for thought.
PARTICIPATORY SENSING 1/4 – the data-citizen driven city
Once there is a critical mass of participants, distributed citizen sensor networks will reveal new emerging patterns that will lead to a new collective intelligence. Citizens will soon become aware of the political power of data and they will begin to get organized in local work groups to develop new strategies to improve their neighbourhoods. The massive adoption of sensors will bring their price down, allowing anyone to participate in the extension of this smart city data layer, regardless of their income…..
Curate Content and News Directly From Within Wordpress: The Storify WP Plugin
Content curation tool Storify is now directly accessible to all WordPress users. A new plugin allows to take advantage of all of the powerful aggregation, search and curation features available in Storify, right inside your WordPress account.
Key features of the Storify WP Plugin include:
Embed stories with ease — simply paste the URL to the story, and WordPress takes care of the rest.
Easily add your stories to posts — just click the Storify button in the standard WordPress editor, and select from a list of your most recent stories.
Create new stories and edit existing ones right from your WordPress dashboard.
Adds SEO-friendly versions of your stories to each post, ensuring that your stories get properly index by search engines.
Allows users with filtered html restrictions to embed stories.
Extensive API to customize the plugin’s functionality to meet your needs
Screenshots: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/storify/screenshots/ FAQ: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/storify/faq/ Find out more: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/storify/ (Curated by Robin Good)
Internet Time Alliance | Integrating learning into the workflow.
New Website: At the Internet Time Alliance we develop strategies to help organizations learn, work, and innovate in the 21st century.
Curating Information and Data Sense-Making Is The Key Skill for the Future [Research]
Robin Good: The Institute for the Future and the University of Phoenix have teamed up to produce, this past spring, an interesting report entitled Future Work Skills 2020.
By looking at the set of emerging skills that this research identifies as vital for future workers, I can’t avoid but recognize the very skillset needed by any professional curator or newsmaster.
It should only come as a limited surprise to realize that in an information economy, the most valuable skills are those that can harness that primary resource, “information”, in new, and immediately useful ways.
And being the nature of information like water, which can adapt and flow depending on context, the task of the curator is one of seeing beyond the water,
to the unique rare fish swimming through it.
The curator’s key talent being the one of recognizing that depending on who you are fishing for, the kind of fish you and other curators could see within the same water pool, may be very different.
Here the skills that information-fishermen of the future will need the most:
1) Sense-making:
ability to determine the deeper meaning or significance of what is being expressed
2) Social intelligence:
ability to connect to others in a deep and direct way, to sense and stimulate reactions and desired interactions
3) Novel and adaptive thinking:
proficiency at thinking and coming up with solutions and responses beyond that which is rote or rule-based
4) Cross-cultural competency:
ability to operate in different cultural settings
5) Computational thinking:
ability to translate vast amounts of data into abstract concepts and to understand data-based reasoning
6) New media literacy:
ability to critically assess and develop content that uses new media forms, and to leverage these media for persuasive communication
7) Transdisciplinarity:
literacy in and ability to understand concepts across multiple disciplines
8) Design mindset:
ability to represent and develop tasks and work processes for desired outcomes
9) Cognitive load management:
ability to discriminate and filter information for importance, and to understand how to maximize cognitive functioning using a variety of tools and techniques
10) Virtual collaboration:
ability to work productively, drive engagement, and demonstrate presence as a member of a virtual team
Critical to understand the future ahead. 9/10
Executive Summary of the Report: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapolloresearchinstitute.com%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Ffuture-work-skills-executive-summary.pdf
Download a PDF copy of Future Work Skills 2020: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapolloresearchinstitute.com%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Ffuture-skills-2020-research-report.pdf
The Internet Is Full | Visual.ly
A depiction of just how much content flows onto the web every day and an argument for the need for curation and curators.
A New Way To Create Data-Rich Visual Content Extracting Meaningful Data From The Web: Silk
This looks like an interesting and promising tool for content curators of different kinds. Silk specializes in extracting data from existing sources in novel ways by simplifying the way we query and access it.
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