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CourseSmart E-Textbooks Track Students’ Progress for Teachers: Using electronic textbooks mean the professor can essentially look over your shoulder to make sure you’re doing the reading. They know when students are skipping pages, failing to highlight significant passages, not bothering to take notes — or simply not opening the book at all. […] In the [...]

How the 2013 World Press Photo of the Year was faked with Photoshop: Here’s the analysis of how the winner of the 2013 World Press Photo of the Year apparently faked the image.  It’s an interesting look at image forensics. Now, the event itself isn’t a fake — there are lots of other photos online [...]

Solving Equation of a Hit Film Script, With Data: A computer might write your next movie. […] a team of analysts compare the story structure and genre of a draft script with those of released movies, looking for clues to box-office success. His company, Worldwide Motion Picture Group, also digs into an extensive database of [...]

San Francisco Is Building A Social Network For Emergencies Only: This is another idea down the line of recovers.org – a social network and communications system to be used when a disaster of some kind occurs. What’s become clear over the last year is that there’s is a need for disaster and crisis coordination online, [...]

An E.V. That Wraps Around a Wheelchair: This vehicle is essentially an exoskeleton that goes over a wheelchair, and “wraps” it so it’s able to travel on the road.  It’s a great idea. The Kenguru is seven feet long — nearly two feet shorter than the dinky Smart Fortwo — and five feet high. There [...]

Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet: After this article was published, Shodan went offline, which is probably for the best, because Shodan is a search engine that scours the Net looking for control interfaces for various hardware objects and real-life systems. He found a car wash that could be turned on and off [...]

Fixing E.T. for the Atari 2600: E.T. for the Atari 2600 was one of the worst video games of all time.  In fact, it may have sparked the 1983 meltdown in game console sales. Well, this guy wanted to fix it, so he did.  He hacked the kernel of the game, and made some necessary [...]

I’m working on a survey with a research team from my alma mater – Augustana College (we made the Final Four, baby!) – on the topic of organizational journalism.  This is a high-fallutin’ word for all the news and updates people post to their websites. I’ll be discussing the results in part at the Now What Conference [...]

At some point, the words “blog” and “post” got all mixed up, and now “blog” is used for everything.  This remains a pet peeve of mine, so this post is a last gasp of protest before I shut the hell up about it. A “blog” is a publication comprised of multiple installments. A “post” is [...]

I gotta say, I was pretty amazed to find this article over at XKCD that attempts to answer the question “How many unique English tweets are possible?” This is interesting, primarily because I’m just coming off a very brief but intense fling with information and communication theory.  In the span of three weeks, I read [...]