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Data Center
James Glanz from the NYTime tours a data center. Great video on the energy demands of a data center. Time for some more wind farms.
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PEW investigates the popularity of photo and video sites
I tend to pay attention to sites that offer data on trends in technology use. PEW offers new data on the popularity of video and photo sites.
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Adventure Games
This is an interesting resource – web based adventure games (How to Geek). Way back when I was a reading researcher, I conducted several studies on the use of text based adventure games as a useful reading instruction tool. If … Continue reading
Connection between education and the economy – do not simplify
Tech Crunch author Gregory Ferenstein offers some comments on the complex connections between education and economic productivity. The United States, they find, has among the highest percentage of top-performing students in the world. Whether the abundance of smart students is … Continue reading
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IBM in the house
No idea how the search process familiar to us might be improved? Here is a prediction from Motley Fool that offers some suggestions. Hint – it involves IBM.
NEWS360
One of the first things I now do when a news story breaks that I think has political overtones is to visit NEWS360 to see if they are covering the story. For example, today the Chicago public teachers went on … Continue reading
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