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How Do You Use Your Cognitive Surplus?

What do you do with your free time?   Do you spend it creating, or do you spend it passively consuming?   Typically, we all do a mixture of both (we are human, afterall), but in this TED video from Clay Shirky, he explains how the 1 Trillion hours of free time can impact our society in [...]

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Journalism Industry Predictions… from 1995?

Many journalists today are making a similar face as the one showcased to the left. A former boyfriend friend sent me an email last week and asked for my opinions on the journalism industry. He writes: “How do the dwindling print media companies resurrect themselves…  My personal opinion is that there are some working examples [...]

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Lessons from the Groundswell: Digg.com

It’s safe to assume that if you’re reading this, you’ve heard of Digg.com. You know, just one of those sites that pioneered a new way to aggregate content on a single page where users determined what was most important. But what I didn’t know (and I’m, again, assuming you didn’t either) is that Digg had [...]

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Newton’s Telecom Dictionary- It’s like if Webster was Cool.

So, in my first rotation as a GE IMLP, it looks like I’m going to be working with some fun, new technologies. Maybe even some crazy satellite stuff. And it’s not just me. A couple of my IMLP coworkers need to navigate their way through some technical documents and training. But how? Newton’s Telecom Dictionary. [...]

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