Timely Snow

Interesting speech by Clay Shirky about changes in the use of surplus time and the things they make possible (including Wikipedia). Including this quote:

I was recently reminded of some reading I did in college, way back in the last century, by a British historian arguing that the critical technology, for the early phase of [...]

I don’t know nearly as much about power analyses as I should.
This looks promising, and the linked articles here also seem useful.

…featuring this quote:
University education in China is skyrocketing. In 1996 China had less
than 1 million freshmen, in 2006 there were over 5 million freshmen.

Recently I’ve been receiving a deluge of registrations on this site for no apparent reason. Akismet is pretty good at catching the comment spam, but I’ve ratcheted up the security required for posting a comment. So if you haven’t had an approved comment, anything you might add won’t show up for a bit.

This would make getting over the hill on Hill Street a piece of cake. Although it’s a bit noisy.

This looks to be an interesting book, as well as an interesting way to develop a book. It will be published as a hard copy book, but also is and will be freely available online.

According to this article, an old Chinese character is being repurposed as an emoticon, thanks to its iconic resemblance to a human face.
囧 (Jiong3), is a very old Chinese character. It’s present in Wenlin,
but there are no words in the dictionary containing it. The character
is used in 莔 (ying1), which also is used in no [...]

My mother has a friend who credulously sends along all of these, although I hadn’t seen the one that claims he has a relative named “Washeteria.” I see that Snopes.com has a page of Obama rumors for one stop shopping.

Adobe leads high-quality raw video format initiative | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
Video to textSeparately, Adobe will give a preview at NAB 2008 of technology that automatically transcribes the audio track of a video file.

For editors, this will allow them to more quickly find passages within
a clip based on a text read-out of the [...]

The Ann Arbor News is really an awful newspaper…not even “Adequate,” which I believe is the word for which they were searching:
Changes to come at Willow Run schools; restructuring is in response to federal guidelines - Latest from the Ann Arbor News - MLive.com
The district was forced to restructure the high school because [...]