Psychology | Learn to Adapt

Aug 22

Learn to Adapt Links for August 22nd

by Jeff Kelly

Web 2.0 Continues As Most Used New Internet Term [Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Blog] - Dion Hinchcliffe's latest musing on the state of "Web 2.0"
Free Will vs. the Programmed Brain: Scientific American - More thoughts on the existence of free will: "If our actions are determined by prior events, then do we have a choice about anything—or any responsibility for what we do?"

Jun 23

by Jeff Kelly

Five Ways to Mark Up the Web - Nick Gonzalez from a while back reviews five website annotations tools. These (and others) can be very valuable for new social research approaches to learning. Students can mark up articles "together" as they read them.
Modeling The Real Market Value Of Social Networks - Michael Arrington does some very interesting number crunching to try to assess the real business (dollar) value of the major social networks.
Multi-tasking, task-switching, and humans — or why I didn’t finish writing this post three hours ago - Dave Munger ponders a bit of research regarding the human tendency to task switch. As the millenials enter the workforce this behavior will greatly impact productivity and work behaviors. (personal note: multi-tasking kills! ;o)

May 22

by Jeff Kelly

The Value of Believing in Free Will - I've never been a fan of predetermination theories/beliefs becuase I believe it undermines individual potential. It turns out it is not good for our society either…
Corporate Policies on Web 2.0 (Enterprise 2.0) - Tony pulled together some policies from companies re: using Web 2.0 tools at work. As we cover in our Web 2.0 University courses, the processes and culture aspects of Enterprise 2.0 implementations is usually a bigger challenge than the tech.

May 21

by Jeff Kelly

The Growth of Open APIs: More Evidence That Web Services Drive Network Effects [Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Blog] - Dion extrapolates the growth of Amazon Web Services to the Web as a whole. The question remains how to monetize this usage. Without the scale or intrinsic financial incentive of Amazon, how do other companies leverage APIs successfully?
The Science of Irrationality: Why We Humans Behave So Strangely: Scientific American - MIT's Dan Ariely discusses his research in behavioral economics and explains how to deal with our brain's flawed decision-making process.

May 02

by Jeff Kelly

These are my links for May 1st:

Buried Prejudice: The Bigot in Your Brain: Scientific American - "Deep within our subconscious, all of us harbor biases that we consciously abhor. And the worst part is: we act on them." Important article re: the bias we all bring to our perception of the world: great implications for diversity and inclusion
Sonivis - Anew entrant in the growing "KM 2.0" movement. It offers a quick overview on current Wiki states or developments, e.g. author activity levels, edit growth, or collaboration index (and more). Very interesting graphical presentation of data.