Bringing open resources to textbooks and teaching
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- Bringing open resources to textbooks and teaching
- Favourite authors
- Free market or ‘fraid market’
- These Days News Travels At Click-Speed
- Let a thousand genomes bloom
- Last German World War I Veteran Believed to Have Died
Bringing open resources to textbooks and teaching
San Francisco Chronicle – Jan 22, 2008
tmpl –>As the founders of two of the world’s largest open-source media platforms – Wikipedia and Connexions – we have both been accused of being dreamers. Independently we became infected with the idea of creating a Web platform that would enable anyone to contribute their knowledge to free and open learning resources. Jimmy started with his popularly generated encyclopedia. Rich developed a platform for authors teachers and students to create remix and share courses and textbooks.
Favourite authors
BBC News – Jan 22, 2008
Authors should be responsible for acknowledging contributors. Etymology: From Anglo-French autour from ld French autor from Latin auctor from augere “to increase” “to originate” (Wikipedia).
Free market or ‘fraid market’
Jamaica bserver – Jan 22, 2008
SmithTuesday January 22 2008According to Wikipedia “A free market is a market in which prices of goods and services are arranged completely by mutual consent of sellers and buyers. By definition in a free-market environment buyers and sellers do not coerce or mislead each other nor are they coerced by a third party. Free markets contrast sharply with controlled markets in which governments directly or indirectly regulate prices or supplies distorting market signals. In other words a free-market economy is “an economic system in which individuals rather than government make the majority of decisions regarding economic activities and transactions. Having absorbed all of the above one may well ask “Does Jamaica have a free-market system?” I am no economist but as a layman in the field I cannot recall at any given moment in time when I have become sufficiently convinced that we do… Hustling gambling throwing partner hands and now joining an investment club have become the preferred ways to get rich quick. Who wants to die poor after working hard all their lives?In my view while the leading commercial banks have formed some kind of informal cartel to protect their interests these investment clubs which some pundits dub ponzis and pyramid schemes will ultimately do likewise. And what will be the government’s role in all of this? After all too much regulation is not good for a free-market system so where do we go from here?According to Wikipedia “Free-market economics is closely associated with laissez-faire economic philosophy which expands this environment by confining government intervention to market failures. ” With the previous government having to bail out so many depositors which parliamentarian and talk-show host Ronnie Thwaites has described as the greatest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich since slavery this Bruce Golding administration must be very edgy about any such recurrence hence the present trepidation. My own stance on the matter is that government’s major role should be educating the populace not introducing legislation simply to stifle free-market aspirations and activities. In any event a recent study by CAPRI has revealed that the majority of people who enter into such schemes are people who can afford to do so. It has been further stated that any fallout in the sector would not necessarily have a long-term negative effect on the overall economy of the country so why the panic? Why not let the chips fall where they may?The bottom line is that freedom and fear are the two ingredients that are now contrapuntal.
These Days News Travels At Click-Speed
CBS News – Jan 22, 2008
(By the way has TMZ. com exploded in popularity or what? That’s a whole other discussion. )Ledger’s biography entry on Wikipedia was changed in astonishingly quick fashion to reflect his death. (It never ceases to amaze me how fast a celebrity death is noted on Wikipedia. ) The story rapidly bubbled up to the main page of the Internet-pulse site Digg. Users of Facebook (including me) had changed their personal status to reflect a knowing of the news.
Let a thousand genomes bloom
MSNBC – Jan 22, 2008
This time researchers will analyze the full volume of human genetic information – which runs to a length of 3 billion letters or roughly the entire English-language content of. Using HapMap and other genetic databases researchers already have identified about 100 regions of the genome that are associated with increased risk for diseases ranging from.
Last German World War I Veteran Believed to Have Died
Spiegel nline – Jan 22, 2008
Erich K?ner who was born on March 10 1900 died on January 1 2008 according to an announcement posted by his family in the Hannoversche Allgemeine newspaper. According to the Wikipedia online encyclopedia K?ner was the German Imperial Army’s last known veteran of the war. He joined up in July 1918 four months before the end of the war and served on the Western Front. nly one other World War I veteran is believed to be living in Germany — Franz K?ler born in July 1900 who served in the Austro-Hungarian empire’s army. K?ner’s family could not be reached and the German Defense Ministry in Berlin said it was unable to provide any information on K?ner. The death notice says he was a retired judge and had earned the Lower Saxony Cross of Merit.
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