Datamining | Learn to Adapt

Aug 05

Learn to Adapt Links for August 5th

by Jeff Kelly

OUseful Info: Education 2.0 Business Models - Though it does not directly address "Education 2.0" business models, this page provides a nice summary of different resources on the monetization aspect of Web 2.0.
Taking social networks abroad - Why MySpace and Facebook are failing in Japan - Great post on the importance of "society" in social networking from Serkan Toto at TechCrunch
Enterprise cloud computing gathers steam | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com - Dion weighs in on the current state of cloud computing. A great summary article on the topic!
Six Degrees of Wikipedia - An interesting page put together by Stephen Dolan does an analysis relationships between articles in of Wikipedia. Try out the "find shortest path" section - interesting. Google recently announced that there are actually an average of 6.6 degrees of separation between the billions of pages they index on the Web. It is indeed a small world (wide web).

Jun 30

by Jeff Kelly

The Google Way of Science — Kevin Kelly — The Technium - Kevin Kelly with a less bombastic post that continues on Chris Anderson’s theme that the petrabyte age of information is changing the scientific method in that we can move from models to actually data to test hypothesis.
No, Mr Kelly, I’m afraid the internet is not as clever as a single (human) brain | Technology | guardian.co.uk - A blistering response to Kevin Kelly’s “Infoporn” post at Wired. See the link below to read the Kelly post.
Infoporn: Tap Into the 12-Million-Teraflop Handheld Megacomputer - An absurd postulate from Kevin Kelly claiming that the Web has already become more powerful than the human brain. Interesting concept (and colorful pictures!) but hardly accurate. He never mentions “mind”…
The Science of Diversity and the Art of Inclusion | Learn to Adapt - The circular bookmark of my post on the discussion about diversity and inclusion I had with Scott E. Page, the author of “The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies”