Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-09-30

  • "many enterprise IT decisionmakers acknowledge that the world is changing-but deny that they are part of that same world" http://j.mp/9jGTOd #
  • Roman Jakobson: "Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey." http://j.mp/9RALAC #ellchat #
  • Cumulative radicalization: "At each point, the next step makes sense but the entire journey ends up looking irrational." http://ow.ly/1qXYTA #
  • Installed IE9 beta and got asked to restart my system. So nothing's really changed! Microsoft up to its old nonsense. #edtech #
  • Should we rename psychology to undergrad psychology? http://ow.ly/1qXnQc #
  • Better but still needs work: More tools for viewing document revisions in Google Docs Blog http://ow.ly/1qXlys #
  • Open-Source Search: Application Centric and a Way to Big Data http://ow.ly/1qXltP #
  • Semanticians take note! "Not everyone has an equal say in determining what words mean." http://ow.ly/1qWNUT #engchat #
  • Essential for linguists, teachers, learners: "Not everyone has an equal say in determining what words mean." http://j.mp/c5vb0f #engchat #
  • Studying Chinese history is now probably more important than studying our own. So much needless prejudice and ignorance: http://ow.ly/2Ldor #
  • Metaphor: "In scholarly publishing the Big Deal is predicated on packaging waste & creating the perception of efficiency" http://j.mp/bdo4GZ #
  • RT @digitaleffie: Wow. Metadata for movement from U. of Virginia, ARTeFACT Movement Thesaurus, #sug2010 #
  • "Microsoft Replacing Windows Live Spaces with WordPress.com" http://j.mp/aiNZzs > Next, replace Windows with Ubuntu! #
  • Popularity without a business model apparently not enough: Xmarks Shutting Down in January 2011 http://j.mp/d6F2Sp #edtech #
  • "Lexical chunks may've entered the house of language teaching..but they shouldn't be given the run of the place" http://j.mp/aFIlJN #ellchat #
  • Linguistic research via cartoon http://j.mp/ba4NVM #engchat via @languagelog and #nsfw #
  • Now I know what I want for Christmas: Thing-O-Matic 3D printer: http://j.mp/aS2R2d #
  • Things looking good for ebooks. Two Kindle owners on the same bench waiting for a local train in UK. #edtech #
  • Arrington: "the kind of person who wants to increase his […] success by getting a masters degree isn’t an entrepreneur" http://j.mp/curhXR #
  • "Many of us buy into the falsehood that unless you are an ambilingual you are not a bilingual." http://j.mp/aqjQ3h #
  • As detailed an argument in favor of Moodle over Blackboard as can be made: http://j.mp/dAB3qe VLE world take notice. #edtech #
  • RT @moodleman: RT @landa84: http://bit.ly/cTjIPP – 1-minute tutorials on using #Moodle 15 minutes to get your course underway #
  • Frederick Jelinek, Czech-born pioneer of speech recognition, remembered and missed by many, including this NYT obituary: http://j.mp/b8NJEc #
  • Edwired: Teaching a large class having students generating questions and using books as resources: http://j.mp/aE8WD6 #

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