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Hypochondriasis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cyberchondria is a colloquial term for hypochondria in individuals who have researched medical conditions on the Internet.
health  internet 
13 days ago by mwfogleman
Global Internet population and knowledge | MetaFilter
don't tell me that the promise of universal access to networked information is "largely unrealized". People in the education business -- both those who educate others and those who seek to educate themselves -- have very real access to the networked library of mankind, and they are making very real use of it.

The author may not see it, but we are living through a great renaissance right now. There are certain types of minds -- very creative, very determined, and very thirsty for knowledge -- that we as a race have wasted for years. A thousand Einsteins have lived and died in a thousand remote villages, far from the libraries they needed. They don't have to do that any more.

We finally brought the library to them.
education  internet  wikipedia  metafilter 
5 weeks ago by mwfogleman
How the internet links philosophy with its roots | World news | guardian.co.uk
Philosophy was always supposed to be as much about engaging in open conversation as about constructing grand unifying theories of everything. The internet, because of its inherently democratic bias towards brevity, concision and accessibility, may well be cultivating a minor revolution in the way we think about philosophy, and who gets to talk about it. This, surely, can only be a good thing.
philosophy  internet 
may 2011 by mwfogleman
stevenberlinjohnson.com: The Glass Box And The Commonplace Book
The reason the web works as wonderfully as it does is because the medium leads us, sometimes against our will, into common places, not glass boxes. It’s our job—as journalists, as educators, as publishers, as software developers, and maybe most importantly, as readers—to keep those connections alive.
web  internet  journalism  commonplacebook  reading 
april 2010 by mwfogleman
New School: How the Web Liberalized Liberal Arts Education | GOOD
This is where neo-education steps in—not necessarily as a substitute for a university degree, at least not at this point, but as a necessary filler for the many gaps in today’s higher education, an essential exercise in flexing our inherent human curiosity about the world before it atrophies into the narrow scope of skill and vision that the original liberal arts model aimed to eradicate in the first place. In an age driven by the cross-pollination of ideas, viewpoints, and disciplines, it is only through such indiscriminate curiosity and exploration that we can truly liberalize our collective future.
education  web2.0  academia  thought  ted  technology  ideas  university  activism  internet  society  liberalarts  liberal  teaching  culture  blog  socialmedia  web  autodidactism  autodidactism2010 
november 2009 by mwfogleman
The Real Pirate Bay - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org
Set up a torrent tracker, get fined, go to jail.

Join a bank, destroy the economy, profit.

Let's draw out the distinction.

The Pirate Bay guys were criminally prosecuted for....violating (largely obsolete) copyright. Almost no one in finance has been held even civilly liable for vastly more economically damaging actions.

On the one hand, we have damages worth maybe (maybe) a few million. On the other, a few trillion.

On the one hand, innovation and better music is stifled - benefits are foregone. On the other, reform of a broken banking system is stifled - losses are incurred.

That's everything that's wrong with the economy in two sentences: the ongoing inability of today's leaders to deal with 21st century economics.
politics  comparison  distribution  internet  media  justice  economics  hypocrisy  economy  piratebay  bittorrent  finance  failure  financialcrisis  download  copyright  innovation  crisis  crime  legal  piracy  power 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
The high costs of running YouTube. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine
It's possible that over the next few years, Google's engineers could find a way to reduce dramatically the costs of hosting such a service. (They're capable of amazing things.) But that proposition is iffy. As Wayne argues, there's a very real possibility that YouTube as we know it is doomed. The company may have to institute restrictions to keep its bandwidth in check, or it could unveil any number of pay-per-use schemes (as some other video sites have done). Then the video free-for-all that we've grown to love will come to an end.
That would be unfortunate. Time wasn't wrong: YouTube and its fellow user-contributed sites really did change the world. Too bad nobody could find a way to pay for it.
video  web2.0  advertising  content  bandwidth  entertainment  slate  businessmodel  bandwith  cost  socialmedia  digital  entrepreneurship  youtube  facebook  economy  business  article  internet  economics  media  google  technology  news  web 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
Regina Lynn's Sex Drive: Internet Pushes Polyamory to Its 'Tipping Point'
"We need to get away from the idea that there's only one right way to live," Veaux says. "That idea has arguably caused more destruction and more damage to more societies over history than any other single idea you can name."
technology  organization  identity  behavior  poly  wired.com  love  marriage  society  internet  culture  wired  polyamory  online  interesting  freedom  commentary  sex  article  articles  relationships  social 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
The Free World Bars Free Speech - washingtonpost.com
But now an equally troubling trend is developing in the West. Ever since 2006, when Muslims worldwide rioted over newspaper cartoons picturing the prophet Muhammad, Western countries, too, have been prosecuting more individuals for criticizing religion. The "Free World," it appears, may be losing faith in free speech.
internet  freedom  freespeech 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
How Google Is Making Us Smarter | Machine-Brain Connections | DISCOVER Magazine
That doesn’t mean we must approve of every possible extension of the mind, and even good extensions will have some drawbacks. Socrates worried that writing would make people forgetful and unwise. Sure enough, writing did rob us of some gifts, such as the ability to recite epic poems like The Iliad from memory. But it also created a much larger pool of knowledge from which people could draw, a pool that has continued to expand (or, dare we say, continued to extend?).
If we’ve learned anything since Clark and Chalmers published “The Extended Mind,” it’s not to underestimate the mind’s ability to adapt to the changing world.
technology  internet  philosophy  mind  psychology  intelligence  science  article  brain  articles  google  web  neuroscience  robots  cool 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
Agnès Poirier: French students have reinvented the art of demonstration | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
The list of pioneering protests is long: lectures by university professors have been given in public places such as L'Arc de Triomph, in trams and in the metro. There have been public trials of government members and auctions of philosophical concepts. The web has played a key role in allowing associations of students to exchange ideas and information and attract the public.

Both education ministers, Valérie Pécresse and Xavier Darcos, though media-savvy and astute negotiators, have found themselves destabilised by such innovative forms of protest. They have already given ground to the protesters but haven't entirely withdrawn the reform. The people at Hôtel de Ville in Paris say they will keep walking until they do – and it's hard not to believe them.
protest  internet  france  usa 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
GizmoStyle // We Love The Web : Linux enters the I’m A Mac/I’m A PC row with ‘We’re Linux’
We’ve all seen the various Mac v PC ads but no Linux ads as of yet. And why would we? - Linux does not have the bank balance to finance Hollywood style adverts - remember Microsofts Jerry Seinfeld ad campaign? $10 million for what? Well, that’s all about to change as Linux have announced five finalists who have made adverts for their ‘We’re Linux’ video campaign. I must admit, they probably aren’t TV ready…..yet. We’ll see what Linux decide to do when they announce the winner tomorrow (Wednesday evening Pacific Time). Here are the 5 videos:
video  software  linux  internet  humor  opensource  design  apple  business  programming  windows  community  sharing  tv  advertising  microsoft  marketing  videos  2009 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
The Future of Our Cities: Open, Crowdsourced, and Participatory - O'Reilly Radar
Imagine now what would happen if cities did throw their weight behind this kind of innovation? The landscape of those cities would change virtually overnight, with legions of new applications springing up to provide residents with every sort of information conceivable, making their decisions more informed, making their movements more coordinated, and ultimately making the cities themselves work better. This change would happen at a fraction of the cost of any proposals for change currently being considered by cities around the world. And much of that cost, for development and operation, would be offloaded from the city itself to the individuals building and using these services.
internet  o'reilly  cities  opensource  grid  infrastructure  business  web2.0  future  community  collaboration  environment  architecture  crowdsourcing  city 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
Personal web data to be stored for a year - The Independent
The mobile calls, emails and website visits of every person in Britain will be stored for a year under sweeping new powers which come into force on Monday. Privacy campaigners warned last night that the information would be used by the Government to create a giant "Big Brother" super-database containing a map of everyone's private life.

The new powers will, for the first time, place a legal duty on internet companies to store private information, including email traffic and website browsing histories.
britain  uk  politics  privacy  internet  surveillance  law 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
Interview: Gmail's product manager on Labs, beta, the future - Ars Technica
Jackson would not comment directly on what's in store for Gmail, though he did leave the possibility of a dedicated iPhone client on the table. From his responses throughout the interview, it sounds like we can expect a generally healthy pace of innovation. Google clearly knows it has an audience of power users who, Jackson said, "are representative of where all users will be in two years." You can expect Labs to be used even more for experimentation and prototyping of new features, and for Gmail itself to keep pushing the boundaries of not only e-mail, but modern communications.
internet  article  web  google  interview  email  gmail  arstechnica 
march 2009 by mwfogleman
Internet Explorer 8 released, progress unmistakable - Ars Technica
Microsoft's has tethered Internet Explorer to long development cycles with huge changes. This strategy is driven in part by the fact that it has businesses to keep in mind; the company does not want to overwhelm them with frequent minor releases. The leaps Microsoft has taken between IE6 and IE7, as well as between IE7 and IE8, are arguably larger than those any other browser maker has made in its major versions. Now that it is back in the game though, Microsoft needs to step it up and start delivering more quickly. The progress that Microsoft's competitors are making—both in terms of features and standards—is still outpacing Redmond's development effort. To truly compete with Opera, Safari, Chrome, and Firefox, the software giant is going to have to match their release cycles—early and often instead of slow and steady.
software  technology  internet  news  web  browser  microsoft  internetexplorer  arstechnica 
march 2009 by mwfogleman
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky
One of the people I was hanging around with online back then was Gordy Thompson, who managed internet services at the New York Times. I remember Thompson saying something to the effect of “When a 14 year old kid can blow up your business in his spare time, not because he hates you but because he loves you, then you got a problem.” I think about that conversation a lot these days.
technology  journalism  trends  internet  innovation  culture  revolution  copyright  business  gutenberg  advertising  history  news  change  article  web  newspapers  drm  future  media  publishing  economy  online  print  newspaper  information 
march 2009 by mwfogleman
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