“For a long time, even when I was going to school, we were taught that the structure of the human brain was basically fixed by the time we got to our early 20s. But it’s become clear in the last few decades that in fact, even the adult human brain is quite malleable. And our [...]
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Interesting links of the day
A Complete Guide To Tumblr via Smashing Magazine Energy retrofits could save $41 billion a year via CNET Asia and Africa, Fastest Growing Facebook Regions via Appfrica Report : Why and how Africa should invest in African languages and multilingual education via SocioLingo Africa Why Don’t The French Get As Fat As Americans? via Barking [...]
Maslow would have been intrigued by today’s social media
“What is really happening when you post a photo to Facebook? What about a tweet on Twitter? What about when you broadcast your location via Foursquare? You’re looking for attention and you’re looking for some kind of recognition/acknowledgement from your social graph. Many people will read this and think that’s a negative thing. It isn’t. [...]
Interesting links of the day
It’s official, Facebook hits 500 million members (but how long will the growth last?) Ushahidi in the classroom (a simple simulation as to how Ushahidi works) The Dichotomies in Personal Learning Environments and Institutions Open Source Design: Can Non-Devs Contribute to Open Source Software Projects? (my personal favorite link of the day) HOW TO: Crowdsource [...]
The power of unconditional love
“The power of unconditional love. I mean, there is no power on earth like unconditional love. And I think that if you offered that to your child, I mean, you’re 90 percent of the way home. There may be days when you don’t feel like it — it’s not uncritical love; that’s a different animal [...]
Interesting links of the day
Africa: Charity vs. Investment via @emeka_okafor (I vote for investment) Must-have browser: Safari 5 Drupal founder, Dries Buytaert, moves to Boston from Antwerp for two years via @dries Google launches new search engine: Caffeine How to tell a fake NGO from a real one via @itsjina
Interesting links of the day
Kenya ICT Board to offer grants for (local) digital content and software applications Does the size of that Gucci logo tell you something about the wearer? Twitter Hiring White House Liaison To Help Politicos ‘Tweet More Effectively’ 12-year-old Ghana boy crowned the national winner of the Doodle 4 Google ‘Love Football’ competition Cartoons in Burkina [...]
“Enemies of the Internet” alive and kicking
If there’s one thing that gets my blood curdling, it is Internet censorship. Reporters Without Borders just released their annual report on Internet freedom & censorship entitled, “Enemies of the Internet”. Among the violators: Saudi Arabia, Burma, China, North Korea, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Uzbekistan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, and Vietnam. Also important to note: Among the [...]
