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BIG DATA, GOOD INFORMATION & A WAY FOR YOU TO USE IT

Wonderful Brain

The first is about big data, the phenomenon that now makes available enormous, staggering, volumes of information almost instantaneously. The second is a condition that says information already known to us can limit how big data can be used because there are other types of knowing to expand thinking. So the era of big data is here.

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Why DRM-Protected eBooks Are the Preferred Choice for Educational Publishing Today?

Kitaboo

Although digital publishing is a promising market, publishers, vendors, and authors are struggling with the constant threat of online piracy with the rise of peer-to-peer file exchange services like torrent sites. It offers a myriad of business benefits, including new revenue streams and reduced publishing costs.

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Weapon of mass detraction

Learning with e's

On the conference's social network site the conference backchannel tool Twitter is announced as "what it means to embrace a truly free and open stream of communication in the digital age." The outcome was that the Twitter stream hashtagged #heweb09 began to trend. It's not the only occurance of 'harshtagging' either.

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Re-orientation

Jay Cross

Now, the torrent of information generated by the ever increasing stream of new developments has rendered this impossible. It pleases me to think of all of the passing information, entertainment, notifications, tweets, blogs, magazines, newspapers, and so on as a never-ending stream. Coping mechanisms. Let it flow.

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