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CNN interview with Nicholas Carr. Pushing a new book (but who isn’t). See also Carr’s Atlantic Monthly article – Is Google Making Is Stupid?

Quora is attempting to create a social answer service (I like this description and I think it is original).  It seems similar to Mahalo to me, but the approach taken would appear to draw in more contributors (perhaps of varying … Continue reading →

iOS4 (that is the new operating system for the iphone and iPad Touch) is here. Here are the review and basic install instructions from ReadWriteWeb.

MacWorld offers this list of practical suggestions for keeping kids safe online. The suggestions are quite concrete, but as you might expect suggestions are explained assuming the student is working on a Macintosh.

p>There seems to be a move toward “brain based” everything. Somehow knowing which area of the brain “fires up” when an activity is on-going appears to explain something. My background is in cognitive psychology and this background offers a way … Continue reading →

Paper Rater offers writing tools to assist students in evaluating their writing projects. The online service proofreads and identifies plagiarized material (“Find out if your paper contains plagiarized text before your professor does.”). I copied an pasted some content from … Continue reading →