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Hard Finding Good Developers / Designers

Tony Karrer

from 2005 (an all time high) 79 percent of IT workers work in IT-reliant companies (health care and financial services, industries enabled by IT but not focused on IT) From 2000 to 2004, the number of incoming US undergraduates planning to major in Computer Science dropped by 60%. And off-shore is not always appropriate.

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eLearning Topics

Tony Karrer

Seems so long ago. :) How about 2005 ? Folksonomy (11) Knowledge (233) Off-shore (7) Leadership (44) Creative Commons (16) Back when we still had hope that folksonomy (tagging) would make sense of the flood of content.

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The 100 Best Trivia Questions with Answers

ProProfs

What is a golfer said to have, if he is entitled to tee off first? What city lies on the western shore of the Caspian Sea? Which of these is in the vegetable group of the USDA 2005 MyPyramid? Which NFL franchise was in Cleveland until the 1940s, in Los Angeles until the 1990s, and is in St. Louis today? Answer- The Rams.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): "Correcting the violent video game rhetoric" (CNet.com)

Mark Oehlert

Now GTA IV has already sold a couple million copies so a powerful and violent as this game is, we should be seeing a tsunami of child violence land upon our shores any minute now. Like they could actually be walking among us right now and it wouldnt really take anything awful or bizarre to set them off. But it wont. You know why?

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Your character strengths

Jay Cross

You can achieve more success by fully leveraging your strengths than by shoring up your weaknesses. This has become a quintessential intervention in the practice of positive psychology since the first study found increases in well-being and decreases in depression for six months (Seligman, Steen, Park, & Peterson, 2005).