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  • AN UNTRASHY TRAILER

    AN UNTRASHY TRAILER | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building. Future-forward design for the world you inhabit – your daily source for innovations in sustainable architecture and green design for the home. Related articles Parallax Landscape Re-Imagines a Low-Carbon Future for a Coal-Dominated Australian City (inhabitat.com) Inhabitat’s Top 6 Architecture Stories of…

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  • Coursera partners with universities to create new science, humanities and engineering programs

      Coursera Plans to Announce University Partners for Online Classes – NYTimes.com.   Two more Stanford professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller have broken off to create a new online learning startup called Coursera with financial backing from two of Silicon Valley’s premier venture capital firms, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and New Enterprise Associates. The startup will…

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  • Personal robotics and prosthetics at Boston tech firms

    Local firms at forefront of improving technology behind prosthetics – The Boston Globe. iWalk and Myomo are finding that people want to buy prosthetic robotics to improve their golf game or running. And some evidence suggest that regular use may help the buy reestablish neurological pathways that make them unnecessary in some medical applications. Related…

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  • Apple has made itself a retailing star

      Apple has made itself a retailing star – Boston.com.   Related articles   Apple’s Next BRIC Growth Frontier: Russia? (fool.com) Apple Retail is the best for a reason (imagineric.ericd.net) ∞ Apple boss tries to gut retail operation (loopinsight.com) Rumor: Apple is expanding the retail footprint of the iPad (intomobile.com) Apple retail leadership tells employees…

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  • Microsoft says social science will be the next frontier of science and technology

    Microsoft Research New England head notes  that social science will be the next frontier of science and technology. Where creativity meets technology – Boston.com   Related articles A New Kind Of Social Science For The 21st Century (lookingbeyondborders.com) What’s Soft about Social Science? (everydaysociologyblog.com) Adventures in Ideas: Which Social Science Should Die? (freakonomics.com) Social Science…

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  • Experience Research: ethnographic approaches to business consulting

      Experience Research. Related articles The Tree: I Was a Teenage Ethnographer! (dailyreturns.wordpress.com) Leet Noobs: An ethnographic view of WoW raiding from researcher Mark Chen (wow.joystiq.com) What Twitter Can Learn From Weibo: Field Notes From Global Tech Ethnographer Tricia Wang (fastcompany.com) Ethnographic Practice in Industry (qrfrag.blogspot.com) Bordering on (in)visibility: The mobility and containment of Haitian…

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  • Jobs for the Future (JFF) uses online intelligence to find jobs in most demand

    In contrast to traditional survey based means of measuring job growth which can be quite inaccurate  Jobs for the Future’s (JFF)  John Dorrer uses ethnographic/online methods to analyze job postings (mining nearly 100,000 unique online postings for the three months ending February 14) in real time to extract the skills employers are asking for right now, then works…

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  • Gilbane Conference | Content Management CMS web mobile publishing social marketing search | Boston 2012 |

    Gilbane Conference | Content Management CMS web mobile publishing social marketing search | Boston 2012 | gilbane.com Bluebill Advisors. Related articles Divorcing Content from Form: A Major Perspective Shift for Marketers (contentmarketinginstitute.com) It’s The Content, Stupid (byronmiller.typepad.com) Lynda Moulton Lists Five Products to Reduce Information Overload (billives.typepad.com) How to Manage Your Web Content in the…

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  • A Look at Social Media in Health Care Two Years Later

    A Look at Social Media in Health Care — Two Years Later – Perspectives – iHealthBeat. This article looks at growth in the type company we’ve been waiting for. an online community where patients can discuss and track medical conditions, progress, stories of what did and did not work for them. Related articles HealthCare Social…

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  • Maker Faire: DIY heaven

    Maker Faire – Make Faire Bay Area 2012 May 19th & 20th. Related articles Get free tickets to Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend from Craftside (craftside.typepad.com) Maker Faire ticket winners and Make Ready Journal giveaways in our booth #220 (craftside.typepad.com) Connecticut: 3D Printers Turn Library Into Place of Dreams (infodocket.com) MAKE Honored by the…

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  • Brian David Johnson and the Intel futurism department

    Brian David Johnson: Intel’s Guide to the Future – Forbes. Related articles Biology vs. The Machine – Part 3: Conversations about Synthetic Biology (uk.tomorrow-projects.com) Maker Faire New York: Brian David Johnson/Vintage Tomorrows (makezine.com) Breaking Down Barriers – Part 1: Conversation with Ariel Waldman & Brian David Johnson (uk.tomorrow-projects.com) Intel’s Futurist Brian David Johnson: Don’t Let…

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  • The 10 best American colleges for writers: Hamilton College

    The 10 best American colleges for writers | USA TODAY College. Wow. My college made #2 in best colleges for writing! Related articles What’s Better Than College Art History 101? A Campus Museum (forbes.com) Undergrads Do Archaeology, Civic Engagement and Digital Humanities (rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com) Why Listening is Hard and How to Think Critically (conversationagent.com) Ezra Pound…

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