Workplace Learning in the Digital Age
Dr. Donna Murdoch
A bit chilling, from Wired: With our bodies hemmed in, our minds have only the cloud — and it is the cloud that has become the destination for an extraordinary mental exodus. Hundreds of millions of people have now migrated to the cloud, spending hours per day working, playing, chatting, and laughing in real-time HD resolution with people thousands of miles away … without knowing their next-door neighbors.
via Software Is Reorganizing the World | Wired Opinion | Wired.com.
From All Things D – Weren’t we all just about to cut the cord? “A Comcast-Time Warner Cable deal would mean that the combined company would have some 33 million pay-TV subscribers — or about a third of the nation’s market. There’s no law preventing that, but the deal would certainly get lots of regulatory scrutiny, since the company would have a lot more leverage when it came to negotiating deals with programmers.”
via One Way or Another, Big TV Is Getting Bigger. Will You Care? – Peter Kafka – Media – AllThingsD.
From The New Inquiry- “The conflict between the self as social performance and the self as authentic expression of one’s inner truth has roots much deeper than social media. It has been a concern of much theorizing about modernity and, if you agree with these theories, a mostly unspoken preoccupation throughout modern culture.”
From GigaOm – The role of Amazon’s web services in revolutionizing the startup ecosystem is well illustrated by the spectacular rise of Dropbox, an online storage service. Their symbiotic relationship shows why Amazon has such a massive lead over rivals in the ever evolving business of cloud computing.
From Mashable – Most Tumblr users partake in one or several different subcultures, depending on their personal interests. Because Tumblr allows users to create multiple blogs, a single account can have various subculture-related blogs, as well as a personal one. Personally, I’ve always been fascinated by the creativity and expression found on Tumblrs. You just need to find them.
According to 9-5 Mac – Verizon Wireless, once the gold standard for LTE, has admitted that it is struggling to keep up with demand in the big cities – with some users being dropped down to slower 3G speeds.
via Verizon no longer the gold standard for mobile data? | 9to5Mac.
From GigaOm – The majority of products to this point haven’t successfully married the hardware and the software in such a way that there is anything that actually makes life better, easier, smarter for the consumer. We have a lot of products that can add value, but there is a heavy onus on the user to continually plug in, check in, and get the most out of the experience. We’re feeding the big data machine, but we’re not solving any problems. That’s where the opportunity lies.
via Wearable tech: It’s not a device, it’s a system — Tech News and Analysis.
From Jessica Lessin: One of the most important questions about the future of computing is this: wrist or face?
via By 4 to 1, Early Adopters Pick Wearable Watches Over Glasses – jessica lessin.
Despite billions in revenue each quarter and owning the dominant desktop platform in the world, people still find it easy to criticize Microsoft.
via 9 Things Microsoft Does Better Than Apple – Business Insider.
Workplace Learning in the Digital Age 