Posts By: Jim Clark

Is texting making us more creative? Canadian researchers think so

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Description: Some call it a universal form of English. Others argue it’s most definitely ruining the language and producing a generation of illiterates. Source: GlobeandMail.com Date: April 9, 2012 But researchers at three Canadian universities studying text messaging think we may have become more creative because of this new form of communication. The academics from… Read more »

The post-PC world is real and it’s here

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Description: This year, over one billion internet-enabled devices will be sold globally with less than one third of those devices being laptop or desktop computers. Source: GlobeandMail.com Date: April 5, 2012 While PC sales have continued to grow for over three decades, the PC era reached its zenith just prior to the introduction of the… Read more »

Metered pay walls the new reality for newspapers

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Description: Newspapers are returning to a business strategy that served them well in the heyday of street-corner newsboys shouting the front-page news. They’re enticing people with a little free online content before asking them to pay up. Source: GlobeandMail .com Date: April 3, 2012 About 300 newspapers across the United States, and a growing number… Read more »

Leading Women

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Description: Marissa Mayer joined Google at the age of 24, and now she is the VP of Local, Maps and Localization Services Source: can .com Date: April 3, 2012 Questions for discussion: Why do you feel Google is ranked as a great place to work? What is Marissa Mayer’s key to her successful career

High school cracks down on students on Facebook

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Description: An Orthodox Jewish girls school in New York orders students to cancel Facebook accounts or be expelled Source: cnn .com Date: March 30, 2012 Questions for discussion: Do you feel that schools should have this right to keep students off of social media? What possible reasons would the schools have in taking this action… Read more »

Jennifer Pahlka: Coding a better government

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Description: Can government be run like the Internet, permissionless and open? Coder and activist Jennifer Pahlka believes it can — and that apps, built quickly and cheaply, are a powerful new way to connect citizens to their governments — and their neighbors. Source: Ted .com Date: March 25, 2012 Questions for discussion: 1.  Could government… Read more »

A Game Explodes and Changes Life Overnight at a Struggling Start-Up

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Description: At a cocktail party on the second floor of the expensive Bowery Hotel in Manhattan on Thursday night, as trays of stuffed mushrooms and thinly sliced filet mignon circulated, Charles Forman was marveling at how quickly things can change. Source: NYTimes .com Date: March 25, 2012 Draw Something transformed Omgpop from a little-known, nearly… Read more »