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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
Leading a small group Bible or book study?Here are some tips from my Your Unfinished Business (available as paperback and Kindle) study guides.What’s said in the small group stays in the small group. Sharing personal thoughts can be an experience in...
Print versus digital: Which is better?This looks like a topic that will keep pundits employed for quite a while. Via Education Advisory Board, report concluded digital may be fine for short, to the point material, but print was better for longer, more complex...
How low-paid workers at ‘click farms’ create appearance of online popularity
Via Business Insider: Click farms have become a growing challenge for companies which rely on social media measurements – meant to indicate approval by real users – to estimate the popularity of their products. For the workers, though, it is miserable work, sitting at...
Startups And The New Space Race
Via Business Insider: In recent years, some of the most famous names in tech, like Microsoft's Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Google's Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, and Amazon's Jeff Bezos have been founding and investing in companies that are looking to the stars. Whether...
Startups And The New Space Race
Via Business Insider: In recent years, some of the most famous names in tech, like Microsoft's Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Google's Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, and Amazon's Jeff Bezos have been founding and investing in companies that are looking to the stars. Whether...
Pennsylvania kills IBM project
Via Business Insider: The state of Pennsylvania is killing a contract with IBM because, as of July, the project was $60 million over budget and a whopping 42 months behind schedule, state officials said. That's three and a half years late. Pennsylvania kills IBM...
Pennsylvania kills IBM project
Via Business Insider: The state of Pennsylvania is killing a contract with IBM because, as of July, the project was $60 million over budget and a whopping 42 months behind schedule, state officials said. That's three and a half years late. Pennsylvania kills IBM...
Let’s Shake Up the Social Sciences
Via New York Times: …the social sciences have stagnated. They offer essentially the same set of academic departments and disciplines that they have for nearly 100 years: sociology, economics, anthropology, psychology and political science. This is not only boring but...