December 2011
14 posts
“The future holds unimagined opportunities. Innovation, especially in the form of...”
– An open letter to university administrators by Clayton M. Christensen, Kim B. Clark professor of business administration at Harvard Business School and Henry J. Eyring, advancement vice president at Brigham Young University-Idaho
Washington Post
“On its face, “meaningful work” may sound elitist, an offshoot of late 20th...”
– Is Work Still Meaningful? - Ellen Ruppel Shell - Business - The Atlantic (via infoneer-pulse)
“And we morph again, from a manufacturing economy to a service economy to a...”
– Smart piece from Dan Frommer on why code should be the second language you teach your kids. Couldn’t agree more. (via arainert)
Adults Now Spend More Time With Mobile Devices... →
Adults are spending more time with their mobile devices than they’re spending with print media, according to a report released Monday by eMarketer.
According to the New York-based market research firm, the average adult consumer spends 65 minutes a day on their mobile device, while they spend only 44 minutes with print media—26 minutes with newspapers, and 18 minutes with magazines.
This is...
Libraries: Where It All Went Wrong →
infoneer-pulse:
Bill Gates and Microsoft were caught flat-footed by the take-up of the Internet. They had built an incredibly profitable and strong company which treated computers as disconnected islands: Microsoft software ran on the computers, but didn’t help connect them. Gates and Microsoft soon realized the Internet was here to stay and rushed to fix Windows to deal with it, but they...
“@stoweboyd: Verizon FiOS costs 6X as the comparable service in Hong Kong, 5X...”
– December 04, 2011 at 05:26AM via http://bit.ly/tEZzuL (via stoweboyd)
College Faculty Take the Lead in Developing Open... →
infoneer-pulse:
The average college student now spends $1,000 annually on books and supplies, and growing numbers of universities are finally getting serious about student complaints over the cost of course materials. But at schools that are open to the idea of adopting free or low-cost alternatives to $200 textbooks, concerns about the quality and variety of electronic materials already on the...