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Article: Logitech Keys-To-Go Review: Finally, An iPad Keyboard I Can See Myself Using Long-Term
November 15, 2014Breaking The Plastic Bag Habit | September 15, 2014 Issue – Vol. 92 Issue 37 | Chemical & Engineering News
November 10, 2014Breaking the Plastic Bag Habit http://cen.acs.org/articles/92/i37/Breaking-Plastic-Bag-Habit.html It’s not #plastic v paper but v reusables, which may, however, have a "bacteria issue"
The Disruption Myth – Justin Fox – The Atlantic
October 27, 2014The Disruption Myth
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/10/the-disruption-myth/379348 Term’s evolution from #Kuhn to Foster to Christensen. Does it still apply in the business world?
BUSINESS OCTOBER 2014
The Disruption Myth
The idea that businesses are more vulnerable to upstarts than ever is out-of-date—and that’s a big problem.
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After several years of research, and a close reading of Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (which introduced the concept of the paradigm shift), Foster came up with an explanation. What threatened these well-run market leaders were what he called “technological discontinuities”—moments when the dominant technology in a market abruptly shifted, and the expertise and scale that the companies had built up suddenly didn’t count for much. One example: when electronic cash registers went from 10 percent of the market in 1972 to 90 percent just four years later, NCR, long the leading maker of cash registers, was caught unprepared, resulting in big losses and mass layoffs.
Foster’s 1986 book, Innovation: The Attacker’s Advantage, described this phenomenon, offered tips for surviving it (just being aware of the possibility of a technological shift was the first step), and predicted that there was much more to come as giant waves of innovation in electronics, software, and biotechnology buffeted the economy. “The Age of Discontinuity,” Foster called it, borrowing the line from the management guru Peter Drucker.
The book did well, but the expression didn’t stick. “I will forever rue the day I didn’t call it ‘disruption,’ ” Foster now says. That was left instead to Clayton Christensen, a consultant and an entrepreneur who headed to Harvard Business School for a mid-career doctorate in 1989 and started teaching there three years later. For his
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The Dark Market for Personal Data – NYTimes.com
October 26, 2014The Dark Market for Personal Data
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/17/opinion/the-dark-market-for-personal-data.html We’re all “judged by a #bigdata Star Chamber of unaccountable decision makers”
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We need regulation to help consumers recognize the perils of the new information landscape without being overwhelmed with data. The right to be notified about the use of one’s data and the right to challenge and correct errors is fundamental. Without these protections, we’ll continue to be judged by a big-data Star Chamber of unaccountable decision makers using questionable sources.
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Google and the Right to Be Forgotten
October 24, 2014The Solace of Oblivion http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/29/solace-oblivion In Europe, the right to be forgotten trumps #Google. In the US copyright is effective for this
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In the effort to escape unwanted attention on the Internet,
individuals and companies have had success with one weapon: copyright
law. It is unlawful to post photographs or other copyrighted material
without the permission of the copyright holder. “I needed to get
ownership of the photos,” Bremer, the Catsouras family’s lawyer, told
me. So he began a lengthy negotiation with the California Highway
Patrol to persuade it to surrender copyright on the photographs. In
the end, though, the C.H.P. would not make the deal.
Other victims of viral Internet trauma have fared better with the
copyright approach. In August, racy private photographs of Jennifer
Lawrence, Kate Upton, and other celebrities were leaked to several Web
sites. (The source of the leaks has not been identified.) Google has
long had a system in place to block copyrighted material from turning
up in its searches. Motion-picture companies, among others, regularly
complain about copyright infringement on YouTube, which Google owns,
and Google has a process for identifying and removing these links.
Several of the leaked photographs were selfies, so the women
themselves owned the copyrights; friends had taken the other pictures.
Lawyers for one of the women established copyrights for all the
photographs they could, and then went to sites that had posted the
pictures, and to Google, and insisted that the material be removed.
Google complied, as did many of the sites, and now the photographs are
difficult to find on the Internet, though they have not disappeared.
“For the most part, the world goes through search engines,” one lawyer
involved in the effort to limit the distribution of the photographs
told me. “Now it’s like a tree falling in the forest. There may be
links out there, but if you can’t find them through a search engine
they might as well not exist.”
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The job had two parts. The first was technical—that is, creating a
software infrastructure so that links could be removed. This was not
especially difficult, since Google could apply the system already in
place for copyrighted and trademarked works. Similarly, Google had
already blocked links that might have led to certain dangerous or
unlawful activity, like malware or child pornography.
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Delving into Deep Learning » American Scientist
October 16, 2014Delving into Deep Learning http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2014/3/delving-into-deep-learning History of #NeuralNets from perceptrons to today’s complex nets with many hidden layers
Mercedes Is Making a Self-Driving Semi to Change the Future of Shipping | WIRED
October 13, 2014Mercedes Is Making a Self-#Driving Semi to Change the Future of
Shipping http://www.wired.com/2014/10/mercedes-making-self-driving-semi-change-future-shipping Autopilots will be safer truck drivers!
Yahoo To Shut Down Qwiki, Yahoo Education And The Yahoo Directory | TechCrunch
October 3, 2014Yahoo To Shut Down…Directory
http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/26/yahoo-to-shut-down-qwiki-yahoo-education-and-the-yahoo-directory Total victory for #textmining (ie Google) over manual #ontologies for web organization
Equil Smartpen 2 captures notes, sketches with a real pen – TUAW
October 3, 2014For Big-Data Scientists, ‘Janitor Work’ Is Key Hurdle to Insights
September 29, 2014For #BigData Scientists, Janitor Work Is Key http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/18/technology/for-big-data-scientists-hurdle-to-insights-is-janitor-work.html Is a #datascientist a digital maid or a data priest? Perhaps a hybrid.
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