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good: Why Supporting Your Local Library Is the Ultimate Homage to Ray Bradbury “When I graduated from high school in 1938, I began going to the library three nights a week,” said Bradbury. “I did this every week for almost ten years and finally, in 1947, around the time I got married, I figured I…
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blerchin: Sfmoma artGameLab (Taken with Instagram)
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My students resist the lack of topic structure because they are the children of structured learning and structured entertainment. John Stilgoe, Outside Lies Magic (via Thomas Steele-Maley (via robertogreco)
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A Definition of Big Data
A Definition of Big Data dataanxiety: nosql: By Forresters Boris Evelson and Brian Hopkins: Big data: Techniques and technologies that make handling data at extreme scale economical. And the explanation of the 4Vs: volume, velocity, variability, variety: Original title and link: A Definition of Big Data (NoSQL database © myNoSQL) Maybe…
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No, and it’s fascinating. If you’re a kid in Texas, I gather, you think nothing of driving 300 miles in your school bus to go play a basketball game or something. It’s just the sense of how far you have to go to get places, even if all the places you’re getting to are actually…
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But Kearns isn’t the only person in town with constituents. Jones has gone to hers as well. “When it was canceled, I communicated to the public and encouraged folks to speak their minds. I asked, ‘What do you want to have happen here?’” She says, “We’ve had an overwhelmingly positive response. People who didn’t want…
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Digital object identifier becomes an ISO standard
Digital object identifier becomes an ISO standard dataanxiety: I use DOI’s all the time, for citations. They are so useful. I’m glad that ISO finally acknowledged DOI as a standard. DOI prevents link rot! Applications of the DOI system include (but are not limited to) managing information and documentation location and access; managing metadata; persistent…
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futurescope: Ultrathin and flexible Willow Glass via gizmag: Corning announced details of a major new glass design at the eighth annual Display Week in Boston, a trade event hosted by the Society for Information Display. Named Willow Glass, Corning’s new glass is manufactured in such a way that allows it to reach temperatures of up…
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calvinandhobbes-daily: June 08, 1992
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