Category Archives: Technology

The Most Incredible 3-D Printed Things We’ve Ever Seen ⚙ Co.Labs

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Think 3-D printers can only make simple toys and trinkets? Think again. From amazing prosthetics to custom surfboards, here are the latest, most incredible things that enterprising engineers are building with 3-D printers.

via The Most Incredible 3-D Printed Things We’ve Ever Seen ⚙ Co.Labs ⚙ code + community.

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The Rise Of The Niche Social Network ⚙ Co.Labs

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Far from being a marketer’s worst nightmare, smaller, more focused networks are becoming places where people actually listen.

via The Rise Of The Niche Social Network ⚙ Co.Labs ⚙ code + community.

Edit Wars Reveal The 10 Most Controversial Topics on Wikipedia | MIT Technology Review

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An analysis of the most highly contested articles on Wikipedia reveals the controversies that appear invariant across languages and cultures.

See the full article: Edit Wars Reveal The 10 Most Controversial Topics on Wikipedia | MIT Technology Review. The 10 most controversial topics are:

  1. George W Bush
  2. Anarchism
  3. Muhammad
  4. List of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. employees
  5. Global Warming
  6. Circumcision
  7. United States
  8. Jesus
  9. Race and intelligence
  10. Christianity

Five [Six] Free Online Tools to Learn Another Language | Gizmodo

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Five [Six] Free Online Tools to Learn Another Language | Gizmodo

  1. LiveMocha
  2. FSI Language Courses
  3. Duolingo
  4. Internet Polyglot
  5. Lang-8

See also: LaMP Teaches You a Foreign Language via Movie and YouTube Subtitles | LifeHacker. LaMP can be installed on Windows computers or accessed online.

Comic-Con 2013: 3D imaging at the GameSpot booth | The 404 Podcast – CNET Blogs

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What do you get when 89 cameras simultaneously shoot one photograph? One of the coolest bits of tech at Comic-Con 2013. 

via Comic-Con 2013: 3D imaging at the GameSpot booth | The 404 Podcast – CNET Blogs.

10 Great Slidedecks from SLA 2013 – OEDB.org

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10 Great Slidedecks from SLA 2013 – OEDB.org.

  1. KM Content that Delivers: Learn from the Early Adopters
  2. 60 Sites in 60 Minutes
  3. The Accidental Systems Librarian: Using Our Librarian Competencies in Managing Systems
  4. Where Did the Books Go? Exploring E-Library Models at the Engineering and Physical Sciences Libraries at Cornell University
  5. Implementing Open Source
  6. The Key Success Factor in Knowledge Management…What Else? Change Management
  7. SharePoint Speed Dating: Tips and Techniques from the Pros: Quick Tips for Creating a Competitive Intelligence SharePoint Site
  8. SPOTLIGHT SESSION: The Race to the Patent Office – the Impact of the America Invents Act
  9. Just Say No to Aimlessness! Strategic Leveraging of Social Media Content
  10. Next Generation Sci-Tech Librarians: Helping Institutions and Researchers Increase Their Impact

Preparing For The Future: Helping Libraries Respond to Changing Tech… | Brian Kelly

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Recent Pew Research Center Studies

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Pew Study: Technology Aids Students’ Writing Skills Though Challenges Remain | The Digital Shift
Digital technologies are impacting American middle and high school students’ writing in many ways, both good and bad, a new national report from the Pew Research Center shows.

Internet adoption becomes nearly universal among some groups, but others lag behind | Pew Research Center
New data from the latest survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project in the spring shows that 85% of Americans adults use the internet at least occasionally.  Five years ago, in an April 2008 survey, 73% of adults used the internet.  Ten years ago, in May 2003, 63% of adults used the internet.

Personal. Portable. Participatory. Pervasive. from Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project

How Teachers Are Using Technology at Home and in Their Classrooms | Pew Internet
A survey of teachers who instruct American middle and secondary school students finds that digital technologies have become central to their teaching and professionalization. At the same time, the internet, mobile phones, and social media have brought new challenges to teachers, and they report striking differences in access to the latest digital technologies between lower and higher income students and school districts.

ALA joins Apple, Microsoft in demanding surveillance transparency | District Dispatch | ALA Washington

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Today, the American Library Association (ALA) joined an unprecedented coalition of Internet companies and advocates to deliver a letter to the U.S. government demanding greater transparency around national security-related surveillance of Internet and telephone communications.

via ALA joins Apple, Microsoft in demanding surveillance transparency | District Dispatch | ALA Washington.

Competitive Relaxation: A Turbo-Nerd’s Way To De-Stress | Co.Labs

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Biosensors which sense your stress level through skin conductivity and brainwaves, combined with [biometric] games to train you how to relax, are the latest ways to achieve Zen.

Stress causes the sweat glands to activate, changing the conductivity of your skin in a reaction known as a galvanic skin response (GSR). The PIP, held between finger and thumb, measures that response and transmits it to an Android or Apple device. Galvanic has also developed several games, including a racing game called Relax and Race, which use the PIP as a controller. Galvanic’s CTO Daragh McDonnell calls it “competitive relaxation.”

via Competitive Relaxation: A Turbo-Nerd’s Way To De-Stress ⚙ Co.Labs ⚙ code + community.