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Category Archives: Technology and life
Scenarios behind technology and education debate
The Books Google Could Open The nation’s colleges and universities should support Google’s controversial project to digitize great libraries and offer books online. It has the potential to do a lot of good for higher education in this country. … … Continue reading
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Gender models and types of evidence for them
MercuryNews.com | 07/31/2006 | Internet raises gender gap This gender gap, which affects everything from the marketing of new technology to attracting more women for engineering careers, is elegantly illustrated in an academic study just published by a researcher from … Continue reading
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Semantic prosody of web design
Technology News: E-Commerce: Study: Poor Web Design Alienates Customers One twentieth of a second. That’s about how long it takes for a Web site Get Linux or Windows Managed Hosting Services with Industry Leading Fanatical Support. to make a first … Continue reading
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Prejudice, shared meanings, local grammars and Google as a resource for research
The Prejudice Map The Prejudice Map According to Google, people in the world are known for… Here’s an interesting ‘mash up’ of Google’s API that supposedly answers the question above. It uses a very simple Google query as in http://www.google.com/search?q=”germans+are+known+for+*” … Continue reading
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Self-organization of iconic linguistic items
The Aargh Page # Not surpisingly, “argh” is much more frequent than any of the alternatives, and the items with fewer ‘a’s or ‘r’s are more frequent than their longer neighbors. # However, there are high-frequency islands, even way out … Continue reading
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Social hypostasis of linguistic items
The GIF Pronunciation Page The GIF graphics file format was invented by CompuServe in 1987. In the years since, a debate has been raging as to the correct way to pronounce “GIF”: like “jif”, or with a hard ‘g’ as … Continue reading
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Discover Music through The Music Genome Project by Pandora
There are two analogies in this post! What great value. Discover Music through The Music Genome Project by Pandora Together we set out to capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level. We ended up assembling literally hundreds … Continue reading
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City as metaphor for visual aspects online design
A List Apart: Articles: Thinking Outside the Grid Because Iâd been thinking about this article for some time, the aerial view of these cities struck me as an apt metaphor for grid design on the web. With todayâs technologies and … Continue reading
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Are printed books dead? God I hope so!
iRex : The iLiad Digital written content can now be read as easily and conveniently as the printed word on paper. The iRex Technologies E-reader provides true reading comfort, flexibility and versatility. It can be read outdoors, in sunshine or … Continue reading
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Conceptualizing gender differences in behavior
ABC News: Male Domination of the Internet Is Over, Study Finds The study says 68 percent of men and 66 percent of women now go online. Since women make up a larger portion of the population, that means they outnumber … Continue reading
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