Monthly Archives: February 2009

LinkLog: Engineering for Serendipity

Here is a great call for Open Linked Data by Ian Davis from Talis: Conjecture 1: Data outlasts code , therefore open data is more important than open source. Conjecture 2: There is more structured data in the world than

Posted in Ideas

LinkLog: Successful Platforms

Here is a nice discussion worth reading about Silicon Valley, recession, disruptive products and successful platforms: He says that a platform ill be successful if it has three characteristics. It has to be able to commoditize a market. Secondly, it

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Posted in startups

Imagine Cornering Authors…

Once in a while you encounter a novel way some one describes a book. It makes a deep impression. Here is how Scott Aaronson goes about describing a Math book: Princeton Companion to Mathematics a 1000-page volume that’s sort of

Posted in Uncategorized

LinkLog: About Knowledge

In Rendering Knowledge, Dave Snowden talks about seven aspects of knowledge: Knowledge can only be volunteered it cannot be conscripted We only know what we know when we need to know it In the context of real need few people

Posted in Learning

LinkLog: Sales Down at My Lemonade Stand or in Geek Terms: Recursive Why

I have seen something like this before. But I think it is good to go with the example. Here is the link to Why? Why? Root Casue Worksheet and the link that got me there.

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I Love This Post: The Education Corps

Consider this the equivalent of Retweet. All I want to do is to point to some post and say I love it and point to others who read my blog and suggest, may be you should read it too. I

Posted in Ideas, teaching

A Couple of Twitter Trends

It is interesting to watch Twitter take off.  Over the past few months, I have seen increasing adoption of Twitter.  Here are a couple of trends worth mentioning. eZines on Twitter I think this is a great idea. I follow

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Programming Languages

What programming language should I learn, a link I found on Twitter (like most of the other things I seem to find, nowadays) is a nice list and a good map for some one who is learning languages and looking

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Posted in Learning, Programming

LinkLog: Social Networks for Creative People, Medici effect, Twitter…

Top 10 Social Networks for Creative People Besides the usual suspects like Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter, Ning, there were a few I have not heard of – Behance Network, Shape Shifters, likemind etc. Twitter as a Tool for Business talks

Posted in Tools, Trends

How Can Students Help Teachers?

Involving Students as Teachers can be an effective means of improving learning. You learn a lot more by teaching. This is being practiced in several places including the MIT TEAL program. This blog entry that led me to Edutopia has

Posted in Ideas, Learning, teaching
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