I have long been a loyal flickr user. It appears that a recent upgrade will make Flickr an even more attractive option for those looking for a place to store their photos. A terabyte of space!
Beware of copyright
Cindy forwarded to me the link to a blog post describing a copyright complaint. This blogger assumed acknowledging the source allowed use of a photo. Not so.
Ignoring the science?
I assign several meta-analyses in my grad courses. This approach is a reasonable way to make sense of a large number of studies that include some inconsistency in results. Recently, a summary of thousands of studies addressing climate change was released and well over 90% supported that human activities play a significant role.
A survey of thousands of peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals has found 97.1% agreed that climate change is caused by human activity.
Authors of the survey, published on Thursday in the journal Environmental Research Letters, said the finding of near unanimity provided a powerful rebuttal to climate contrarians who insist the science of climate change remains unsettled.
Some who would like to ignore this avalanche of data for political or economic gain are pretty much in the same camp still promoting smoking.
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More Drive storage
Google has announced an upgrade in the space (gmail, drive, G+) provided at no cost to users. The same announcement also explains the cost if you decide you need additional space.
There are getting to be quite a few different plans out there and the plan that fits you may depend on your activity. For example, if you save many pictures and videos, Flickr at $25 a year for all you can store would have to be the best deal. Image and video take a lot of space, and $25 would take you further than paying the lowest Google rate for G+ image storage $60 for 100 Gigs (beyond the free version).
BTW – Amazon is also getting into the cloud storage game (in a bigger way). If you have an android phone and install the Cloud Drive app, photos taken with that phone will automatically be uploaded (see image) when you have a wifi connection.
OR, do what I did, purchase a Chromebook Pixel. It comes with a FREE terabyte of cloud storage (for three years). The cost of the hardware may give you pause, but the cost of storage is great.
The money behind the MOOCs
I have argued many times that quality deserves some type of compensation. Or, put another way, no one has a right to expect much of anything for free.
If you have concluded that MOOCs are an exception, you might want to review this from the Chronicle of Higher Education. This piece identifies some of the money sources and the amounts behind some of the MOOCs you may recognize.
This could get ugly
If Microsoft’s YouTube app for the mobile phone blocks the ads in YouTube videos, this could really raise the stakes. Ads are the primary revenue source for Google. Would Google then write the code to recognize browsers running on Microsoft OSs and refuse to serve video?
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