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How to Tap IT's Hidden Potential - WSJ.com
12 March 08 07:55 PM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

Good article worth a few minutes here .   Likes: The article focuses in on the competitive necessity and opportunity to leverage technology to create value in your business  It reads a bit like "IT Leadership 101", but sometimes Read More...

Filed under: Convergence, decision making, computing is a liberal art, Future, IT

Microsoft to give out development tools to students | Markets | Markets News | Reuters
19 February 08 07:02 AM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

Historically, Microsoft's free development tool software program for students has been controlled by computer science departments.  This has probably been one of multiple reasons that comp sci students have disproportionately taken advantage of Microsoft's Read More...

Filed under: Microsoft, software development methods, computing is a liberal art, education, Billg

When information is not scarce, what does it mean to know?
16 November 07 05:10 AM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

Another very interesting video here from the folks at Kansas State University that did the Academia 2.0 post and initial response . (BTW, the first video on the linked page IS the Academia 2.0 video, so be sure scroll down to the second video.) Similar Read More...

Filed under: complexity science, adaptive, change, learning, uncertainty, social networking, computing is a liberal art, knowledge, cyborg

» The next big thing: User-contributed metadata ... and More...
04 November 07 02:37 AM | john.mullinax | 2 Comments   

Kind of a "roundup" post. First, this user-contributed metadata business. More the evolution of loyalty cards than of user-contributed media online, I think. . The next big thing: User-contributed metadata | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com . Will we see Read More...

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More on the rise of the Cyborg
19 October 07 01:54 PM | john.mullinax | 2 Comments   

Technorati Tags: Cyborg If you found this post on the "hive mind" intriguing, you may also find Clive's Thompson's article in Wired, Your Outboard Brain Knows All, to be worth a few minutes.  It's a different angle on the same fundamental Read More...

Filed under: computing is a liberal art, cyborg

Academia 2.0? The reponse to A Vision of Students Today
17 October 07 08:55 AM | john.mullinax | 2 Comments   

Technorati Tags: Adaptive , User Experience , Computing is a liberal art , knowledge , academia 2.0 Walter Stier posted a link to an interesting video made by a Kansas State cultural anthropology class on what it's like to be a college student today. Read More...

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Computing Is A Liberal Art, Part 3: Strategies for Reinforcing Loops and the Hive Mind
20 June 07 03:59 PM | john.mullinax | 3 Comments   

Technorati Tags: innovation , systems thinking , complexity science , adaptive , change , learning , Popfly , computing is a liberal art , knowledge , cyborg Here's a conundrum: if knowledge is personal, how do I benefit from what you "know"?  Read More...

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Computing Is A Liberal Art, Part 2: Knowledge is personal
20 June 07 05:34 AM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

Technorati Tags: innovation , systems thinking , complexity science , adaptive , change , learning , Popfly , computing is a liberal art , knowledge , cyborg In the natural world, few (if any) things grow without limits.  In the case of information Read More...

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Computing Is A Liberal Art, Part 1: Education Inflation
20 June 07 01:59 AM | john.mullinax | 5 Comments   

Technorati Tags: innovation , systems thinking , complexity science , adaptive , change , learning , Popfly , computing is a liberal art , knowledge , cyborg Education Inflation   Most of us are familiar with the rising cost of education/tuition Read More...

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