Brick and Mortar stores - Can they compete in the digital age?
Sat, 2012-09-01 17:23 — ashley.desouzaI found this interesting piece (link at the bottom) on How traditional physical stores can leverage the new technologies and innovations to not only survive but also get stronger in this age of online retail.
A Simplified Diagnosis Tool to help Reduce Cattle Fatalities
Sat, 2012-09-01 16:23 — ashley.desouzaThis article is inline with the Japanese Farm story we discussed in class this week, but without the use of GPS, cloud computing, sensors and other sophisticated technology employed on the Shinpuku Seika farm. The end goal is however similar, to the extent that technology is being leveraged to compensate for a lack of resources (trained, qualified people).
Everybody is happy at the gay zoo
Sat, 2012-09-01 12:12 — sebarnessLibrary By The Beach: Reading The Book of Sand
Fri, 2012-08-31 16:55 — sayantanBooks have been the subject of interesting and important discourses for philosophers for very long time. Impatient time of us can ignore but can't argue that "A room without a book is a body without a soul" (
Organizing User Leagal Agreements—Microsoft's New Terms of Service
Fri, 2012-08-31 16:53 — jake.hartnellOn the 27th of August, 2012, Microsoft released its new terms of service agreement. What's interesting about this agreement is that much of it is organized in a question and answer format.
"The Best Book Reviews Money Can Buy" and the problem of description resource reliability
Fri, 2012-08-31 14:34 — ljWhether or not readers recognize it as such, they all use some kind of personal organizing system to determine which books they choose to read (in other words, to add a given resource to the collection of books that will be read). The very vastness of the collection of available books makes it essential to do so. Along with metadata such as genre, author, price, and library availability, a common method of developing organizing principles for this system is to use description resources (recommendations from friends, editorial reviews, online user reviews).
The intricate organizing system of Mumbai's "Dabba-wallahs"
Fri, 2012-08-31 14:03 — priya.iyerSmart Meters - Consumers are ready, but are the providers?
Fri, 2012-08-31 10:40 — vstarostenkoStudies show that people save 5-15% of their energy costs when
they have access to information about their energy consumption.
King County Archives now using Pinterest
Wed, 2012-08-29 22:28 — cpphamAn interesting piece of news came up on my feed today about King County Archives using the social media platform Pinterest in order to spread awareness of their historical photos to a wider audience. They established different boards, each with dozens of photos from their archives "ranging from old maps to artwork to images of the 1962 World's Fair". Considering we just discussed archives and the way they approach digitization of their work, I found this to be an interesting convergence of what we covered in class with a contemporary social media platform.
