February 2012
12 posts
scientist: the average person spends 18 hours online per week.
me: you mean per day
scientist: what
me: what
fjall:
Tumblr won’t let me upload this totally rad My Little Pony gif I made. There must be something up with the servers.
edit: It’s probably going to upload all my attempts to upload it today all at once and annoy people.
Yep.
“What if a computer could accurately grade student essays? It could change the...”
– The End Of Multiple Choice? The Quest To Create Accurate Robot Essay Graders (via fastcompany)
Tumblr Hires Writers to Cover Itself - NYTimes.com →
nevver:
in case you missed it
January 2012
5 posts
Deep thoughts on Sloths, from Newsbeast HQ.
Jess: have i been missing like a major cultural phenomenon? have people always loved sloths?
Brian: jess bennett - sloth hater.
Joyce: the Internet has been good for sloths. like cats, but slower.
December 2011
8 posts
“This used to be funny, but now it’s really just terrifying. We’re dealing with...”
– Dear Congress, It’s No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works | Motherboard (via infoneer-pulse)
“Why The Toy Industry Hates the iPad The number one most requested toy for...”
– Why the iPad Is the Most Hated Gadget Ever | Cult of Mac (via deathbeard)
November 2011
39 posts
Why everyone hates the IT department →
infoneer-pulse:
Traffic wardens, tax collectors, lawyers, (ahem) journalists… the list of occupations that inspire contempt among the public they serve has a new addition: IT support staff.
“Everyone hates the IT department,” an executive with storage and data-recovery firm EMC told us recently. But why is there so much antipathy towards a department that is, after all, designed to help and...
CMU Researchers Turn Any Surface Into A... →
infoneer-pulse:
Soon you, too, will be able to talk to the hand. A new interface created jointly by Microsoft and the Carnegie Mellon Human Computer Interaction Institute allows for interfaces to be displayed on any surface, including notebooks, body parts, and tables. The UI is completely multitouch and the “shoulder-worn” system will locate the surface you’re working on in 3D space, ensuring...
M-Disc is a DVD made out of stone that lasts 1,000... →
Research Shows Just How Connected Today’s Kids Are... →
world-shaker:
K5 Learning Blog, a blog by the online reading and math program K5 Learning that follows educational issues with advocacy for parent involvement, recently reported that a number of studies have highlighted how connected and digitally tuned in kids are today to technology.
The reports showed the following interesting and fun facts:
More than half of two- to four-year-olds use a...
The Internet Will Get a Peer Review Layer Next... →
infoneer-pulse:
A project lead by some of the most-respected leaders of the Internet has secured $240,000 in funding to build a prototype system for both expert and peer review of all the content on the web, sentence by sentence. Called Hypothes.is, the project is lead by early search engine innovator and climate change activist Dan Whaley and backed by advisors from John Perry Barlow of the...
