“The 18-25 year old bracket sends an average of 19 text messages per day, or 133 messages a week, more than double any other age group. Over 55 year olds mostly send text messages to reach family (55%), while only 19% of under 25s text their family with 45% of young people preferring to send messages to friends.”
—Why Do We Love SMS So Much? (via thenextweb)
July 2012
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“Twitter is heading in a direction where its 140-character messages are not so much the main attraction but rather the caption to other forms of content.”
—Interview of CEO Dick Costolo, Los Angeles Times | Twitter is building a media business using other people’s content (via bustr)
“Yahoo didn’t mind that Marissa Mayer is pregnant. And Mayer didn’t mind that Yahoo is just bloated.”
—Dave Pell
Consortium of Colleges Takes Online Education to New Level →
nytimes.com
As part of a seismic shift in online learning that is reshaping higher education, Coursera, a year-old company founded by two Stanford University computer scientists, will announce on Tuesday that a dozen major research universities are joining the venture. In the fall, Coursera will offer 100 or more free massive open online courses, or MOOCs, that are expected to draw millions of students and adult learners globally.
Even before the expansion, Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng, the founders of Coursera, said it had registered 680,000 students in 43 courses with its original partners, Michigan, Princeton, Stanford and the University of Pennsylvania.
Now, the partners will include the California Institute of Technology; Duke University; the Georgia Institute of Technology; Johns Hopkins University; Rice University; the University of California, San Francisco; the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; the University of Washington; and the University of Virginia, where the debate over online education was cited in last’s month’s ousting — quickly overturned — of its president, Teresa A. Sullivan. Foreign partners include the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, the University of Toronto and EPF Lausanne, a technical university in Switzerland.
And some of them will offer credit.
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“A computer, it turns out, is just a particular kind of machine that works by pretending to be another machine.”
—The Great Pretender: Turing as a Philosopher of Imitation - Ian Bogost - The Atlantic (via thisistheverge)
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