Knowing Looks: Using Gaze Aversion To Tell When Children Are Learning

Knowing Looks: Using Gaze Aversion To Tell When Children Are Learning

This could have seriously interesting applications for educators and educational researchers. Especially since eye contact has long been considered a hallmark sign of serious difficulties including attention difficulties, Autism Spectrum Disorders and social maladjustment. However, it may be more characteristic of something happening in the mind that is more stimulating than what is happening in the physical world, whether learning is occuring or not.

What if Twitter is just a toy

A proposal for Twitter: Shut it down | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone

I agree in theory with everything that is proposed in this article. However, I do question the statement that “Twitter is not a toy, it is a communication platform.”

What if the concept behind Twitter was a toy. What if the architects behind Twitter were really just pushing for the next toy for the internet generation. It could have been the users that realized it was next great communication platform. This could explain why the architects, engineers and founders were a little slow on the uptake, when it came to scaling and stability. If the concept was a toy it would not matter if it was down for short periods of time. Also, if it were a toy they would never have expected to experience the use (at least initially) that they get on a daily/weekly basis.

So, was Twitter a concept toy like a Tonka Truck or was it designed to be the next communication platform life a 300 ton dump, forty foot tall dump truck?

Once again the music industry is blaming everyone else

U2 manager slams Internet providers – Entertainment News, International News, Media – Variety

This sounds like the same old song and dance from the music industry executives. Place the blame for the failing music industry on anyone rather than looking for ways to change. This is typical industry rhetoric – “you all need to pay us more because you are benefitting from the music we control.” This rhetoric is tired and will never succeed, incremental increases in “use” fees will not save the music industry. Change is the only thing that will truely save the music industry.