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Is the Internet Remaking Us? Part II

29 June 2010
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Does the Internet make us smarter or dumber?
@smalljones dug up the following news articles in response to a discussion on this topic that will be held in our department this Friday afternoon. It is pure coincidence that the topic of the discussion is whether or not the Internet is remaking us — a topic [...]

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Google “Buzz”, Too Much Information

18 February 2010
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The other week I wrote about my own complicity in sharing my private data via Facebook. I do this and I continue to do it because I gain something from using Facebook. I think of Facebook as going to a local coffee shop. You are able to keep up with a wide variety of people [...]

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“A Data Deluge Swamps Science Historians”

14 January 2010
Server cabinets at a data center

A few months ago, Robert Lee Holtz wrote an article in the Science Journal section of the Wall Street Journal where he discussed how the data deluge is swamping scientists and researchers.
The author addressed the particular issue of how curators store data for current and future access so that other scientists may access the data [...]

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World Wide Mush? An Argument Against the “Internet as a Collective”

10 January 2010
Jaron Lanier, You are Not a Gadget

Researcher Jaron Lanier has an interesting article in last Friday’s Wall Street Journal entitled “World Wide Mush“. The article is a plug for his book, You Are Not a Gadget. Although the author does not specifically discuss large-scale data management, I am including it because he addressed “the collective” work of the Internet, upon which [...]

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