KerryJ’s Neotenous Tech

Yahoo! is making headlines for helping to strangle free speech in China. Again. It boils down to trading the life of a human being in exchange for access to more than 160 million potential advertisers and pairs of eyeballs.
Spokesperson Mary Osako was quoted by the BBC in 2005 as saying,
“Just like any other global [...]

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“Because the web needs prophylactics for memetically transmitted diseases.”
Relevance in search results as in life is based on a series of choices and the ability to filter out what is annyoing, irrelevant and just plain useless.
So two programmers in the US are working on developing open source filtering software that is able to detect rampant [...]

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The executive summary to Marie Jasinski’s research for the Flexible Learning Framework on the environment necessary to embed e-learning into mainstream practice made for an excellent read this morning and a great start to my week.
The key messages for me were:
1) Early adopters or innovators are not necessarily the best leaders when it comes to [...]

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Originally uploaded by kerryank
A few hiccups but really a great result in using SL in conjunction with a live event! And the mimosas were lovely! Congrats to Jo Kay and the rest of the people involved.
And it was great seeing Jo, Nancy White, Fang, Dave, Jude and meeting Bron.
This nudged my opion-o-meter towards [...]

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Me and My Chumby, originally uploaded by Choconancy1.

Nancy White is a speaker, student, inspirational web user and just plain lovely person who travels to fabulous places. So after going to one of her presentations last year, [...]

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