INFORMAVORE's SUNDAY No 477

My dear Readers,

It was a good week for informavores and info-gourmets.

My favorite piece this time is the idea to replace the “knowledge worker” with the “insight worker” who is higher on the DIKW scale- if applied in practice this could make the world much better.

This newsletter still has a very moderate success but I enjoy being fast and well informed and I try to inform my friends. It seems this publication will never enter the epidemic phase, being as attractive and mainstream as an advertisment for “brain enlargement”.

It will be popular when “intellectual” will be something good and positive.

Really truly yours,

Peter

SEARCH

INTERNET

Internet regulation: The need for more transparent Internet filtering systems and improved measurement of public opinion on Internet filtering

http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3266/3071

SEARCH & FIND: What, where, how.  

Question and Answer search engines:  http://websearch.about.com/od/enginesanddirectories/tp/answer-search-engines.htm?nl=1

Check what time it is anywhere in the world on the Web:

http://websearch.about.com/b/2011/10/05/what-time-is-it.htm?nl=1

Excessive use of search engines leads to memory loss, says a study:                                                            http://socialbarrel.com/excessive-use-of-search-engines-leads-to-memory-loss-says-a-study/22767/

                                    

BLOGS and SOCIAL SITES

Just Released: Full Text: 2011 Social Media Consumer Trend Report: http://infodocket.com/2011/10/07/just-released-full-text-2011-social-media-consumer-trend-report/

How social media is a lot like dating:

http://www.techipedia.com/2011/social-media-dating/

 

Crowdsourcing Democracy Through Social Media:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111011121412.htm

Reference Resources: New Infographic: Facebook Facts and Figures 2011:                    http://infodocket.com/2011/10/14/reference-resources-new-infographic-facebook-facts-and-figures-2011/

Can Twitter predict the future? Internet forecasting: Businesses are mining online messages to unearth consumers’ moods—and even make market predictions:

http://www.economist.com/node/18750604?php%20$this-%3EincludeSnippet%28%27Publishers_Omniture%27%29;%20?%3E

 

The Social-Network Chip The growth of social media, search, and shopping could help chip startups get a foot in the data-center door:

http://www.technologyreview.com/business/38716/?nlid=nlbus&nld=2011-10-14

GOOGLE

 

Improve your Google-fu with these 13 vital search commands:

http://websearch.about.com/b/2011/10/07/become-a-google-master-with-these-13-google-search-commands.htm?nl=1

 

Google rolls out two new features: Real-time search and improved hashtag support:

https://plus.google.com/107117483540235115863/posts/dXovwc1hSyY

Google Wave, Reincarnated Wave is often considered one of Google's most embarrassing failures, but several startups are bringing the ideas it introduced back to life:

http://www.technologyreview.com/web/38804/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-10-10

Larry Page Google + has now over 40 million users:

http://searchengineland.com/larry-page-google-now-has-40-million-members-96796

Is Google+ a Solution in Search of a Problem?

It’s not clear what Google+ has to offer that is much different from Facebook and Twitter; it will be difficult for Google’s social network to gain as broad a user base: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/is-google-a-solution-in-search-of-a-problem-10112011.html

Why you can’t compareGoogle+ user  figures to Facebook or Twitter:

http://searchengineland.com/why-you-cant-compare-google-user-figures-to-facebook-twitter-96822

WORDS, BOOKS, LIBRARIES

Common errors in English usage: http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html

And non errors;

http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/nonerrors.html

 

Almost Wikipedia: What Eight Collaborative Encyclopedia Projects Reveal About Mechanisms of Collective Action: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2011/10/makohill

Ebooks don’t spell the end of literature:

http://infodocket.com/2011/10/10/ebooks-dont-spell-the-end-of-literature/

 

Dramatic Growth | LJ‘s Second Annual Ebook Survey: http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2011/10/12/dramatic-growth-ljs-second-annual-ebook-survey/

Redesigned Europeana Portal launched:

http://blog.europeana.eu/2011/10/redesigned-europeana-launched/

SCIENCE

 

Is the Brain Good at What It Does?: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/books/review/is-the-brain-good-at-what-it-does.html

 

New way to gain a clear view of the Brain: http://www.kurzweilai.net/new-way-to-gain-a-clear-view-of-the-brain

UCLA researchers discover rhythmic secrets of the brain: http://www.gizmag.com/ucla-brain-memory-rhythm/20070/

 

Brain imaging reveals why we remain optimistic in the face of reality:                                              http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-brain-imaging-reveals-optimistic-reality.html

 

How Life Might Have Survived 'Snowball Earth:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111011102001.htm

 

The Quasicrystal Laureate

Nobel Prize winner Dan Shechtman discusses the potential uses for quasicrystals:

 

New 'Diamond?' New Form of Superhard Carbon Is as Strong as a Diamond: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111011121408.htm

George Whitesides- the world we live in is chemistry: http://earthsky.org/human-world/george-whitesides-the-world-that-we-live-in-is-chemistry

 

From Blue Whales to Earthworms, a Common Mechanism Gives Shape to Living Beings: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111013153943.htm

TECHNOLOGY

Ray Kurzweil: The Six Epochs of Technology Evolution: http://bigthink.com/ideas/40291

 

11 brilliant innovators: breakthrough awards 2011: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/10-brilliant-innovators-for-popular-mechanics-breakthrough-awards-2011#fbIndex1

 

Low-Cost Tablet Runs on Three Watts of Power Designed to teach math to students in poor countries, the device will be the first to use a new energy-efficient computing strategy:

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38803/?nlid=nlenrg&nld=2011-10-10.

How to count nanoparticles:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111010092858.htm

 

Researchers discover material with graphene-like properties:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-material-graphene-like-properties.html

Green urbanism:

http://www.issues.org/27.3/br_leinberger.html

 

Beyond the PC Mobile digital gadgets are overshadowing the personal computer, says Martin Giles. Their impact will be far-reaching:                                http://www.economist.com/node/21531109

The toilet of tomorrow:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/13/technology/personaltech/kohlers-numi-is-everything-one-wants-in-a-toilet-and-more.html?_r=1

EDUCATION, CULTURE, ART

World Development Report 2012;

http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/EXTWDRS/0,,contentMDK:20227703~pagePK:478093~piPK:477627~theSitePK:477624,00.html

THE BETTER ANGELS OF OUR NATURE: 
WHY VIOLENCE HAS DECLINED by steven Pinker:

http://www.skeptic.com/upcoming-lectures/why-violence-has-declined/

Penn Jillette: Reconciling Atheism with Libertarianism: http://bigthink.com/ideas/40561

 

Three interesting essays by one of my favorite bloggers, Dave Pollard:

http://howtosavetheworld.ca/2011/10/13/resilience-networks/ http://howtosavetheworld.ca/2011/10/11/why-the-metamovement-will-ultimately-fail/ http://howtosavetheworld.ca/2011/10/08/the-death-of-nature/

Perils of Polite Misunderstandings:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111011145729.htm

Fear of Physics: http://www.fearofphysics.com/index1.html

Philosophy Now: http://www.philosophynow.org/

Antonio Damasio on emotions and reason:

http://www.edbatista.com/2011/07/antonio-damasio-on-emotion-and-reason.html

BUSINESS

 

I Loved What I Did' What we can learn from the legacy and life of Steve Jobs:

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38817/?nlid=nlcomp&nld=2011-10-12

What We Should and Shouldn’t Learn from the Life of Steve Jobs

http://eblingroup.com/2011/10/what-we-should-and-shouldn%E2%80%99t-learn-from-the-life-of-steve-jobs.html

 

Valuing Differences…Here’s to the Crazy Ones: http://gwynteatro.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/valuing-differences-heres-to-the-crazy-ones/

What I have learned from Steve Jobs:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20117575-37/what-i-learned-from-steve-jobs/

FiveBooks Interviews  Dan Ariely on Behavioural Economics:

http://thebrowser.com/interviews/dan-ariely-on-behavioural-economics

From selling products to delivering services  (it is about Amazon):

http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2011/nt-2011-10-10-From-services.htm

Want to be in top 10% of all leaders? Develop 3 exceptional strengths…: http://davidkanigan.com/2011/10/14/what-makes-a-leader-indispensable-be-exceptional-in-a-few-things

How iteration-it is kills good ideas: http://blogs.hbr.org/anthony/2011/07/is_iteration-itis_killing_your.html

 

Wealth, poverty and compassion The rich are different from you and me

They are more selfishz;

http://www.economist.com/node/16690659?php%20$this-%3EincludeSnippet%28%27Publishers_Omniture%27%29;%20?%3E

No such thing as extrinsic motivation:

http://www.compensationcafe.com/2011/10/no-such-thing-as-extrinsic-motivation.html

Leadership in Complexity:

http://www.jarche.com/2011/10/leadership-in-complexity/

Spreading social capitalism:

http://www.jarche.com/2011/10/spreading-social-capitalism/

 

Ten realities of working for a startup:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-business/starting-out/ten-realities-of-working-for-a-startup/article2190771/

 

Secrets of a Successful Business Pitch:

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/08/secrets_of_a_successful_busine.html

The Gamification of Poverty A game with a message points the way to a future in which games are one of the best ways to teach ourselves just about anything.

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/27227/?nlid=nlweb&nld=2011-10-12

Goodbye, Knowledge Workers. Hello, Insight Workers! http://bigthink.com/ideas/40650

Why nice guys don’t always make it to top: http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/research/halevy_nice_2011.html

HEALTH & MEDICINE

 

How aging-related brain diseases affect the brain:

http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-aging-related-brain-diseases-affect-the-brain

Scientists Determine Alternative Insecticide Dramatically Reduces Malaria Transmission: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111005172635.htm

Tendons take shocks muscle won’t handle:

http://www.futurity.org/science-technology/tendons-take-shock-muscles-wont-handle/

 

Genome of the Black Death Revealed Samples from a London cemetery of the bacteria that caused the plague are almost genetically identical to strains circulating now:

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/27249/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-10-13

 

A New Twist on Artificial Muscles Carbon nanotube yarns produce as much torque as an electric motor:

http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/38866/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-10-14.

Dietary supplements: Mortamins? http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/10/dietary-supplements?fsrc=nlw|newe|10-12-2011|new_on_the_economist

First Physical Evidence Bilingualism Delays Onset of Alzheimer's Symptoms:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111013121701.htm

The Meaning of Hockey Our game is like no other. Nor is its history:

http://walrusmagazine.com/printerFriendly.php?ref=2011.11-sports-the-meaning-of-hockey

FOOD & COOKING

 

Agriculture With a Future Comes to Dinner:

http://scienceblogs.com/casaubonsbook/2011/09/perennial_agriculture_at_dinne.php

 

 

Global Meat Production and Consumption Continue to Rise:

http://blogs.worldwatch.org/nourishingtheplanet/global-meat-production-and-consumption-continue-to-rise/

 

Gene Technology Can Help Food Crops Must to Withstand Harsher Weather:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111007102111.htm

 

Infographic: All The Genetically Modified Food You're Eating:

http://www.fastcompany.com/1787543/infographic-all-the-genetically-modified-food-youre-eating

Healthy Apple Bread:

http://dairyfreecooking.about.com/od/breadsbakery/r/Apple_Bread_Recipe.htm?nl=1

 

Five surprising foods that boost immunity:

http://gimundo.com/news/article/five-surprising-foods-that-boost-immunity/

 

Health Benefits of Broccoli Require the Whole Food, Not Supplements:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111011112501.htm

Which direction are herbicides heading?:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111011163100.htm

How to go vegetarian or vegan:

http://vegetarian.about.com/od/vegetarianvegan101/qt/HowtogoVeg.htm?nl=1

MISCELLANEA

 

9 strangest gadgets you have ever seen:

http://savedelete.com/strangest-gadgets-ever.html

 

Better Living Through Hilarity: Looking at the Healing Power of Laughter Yoga:

http://splitsider.com/2011/10/better-living-through-hilarity-looking-at-the-healing-power-of-laughter-yoga/

Outsmart the test!:

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40556

SELECTED NEWS

SPAM & SPYWARE   

VIRUSES & e-CROOKS

 

Viruses explained:

http://antivirus.about.com/od/whatisavirus/What_is_a_Virus.htm

 

Cyber threats 2012: search poisoning, mobile Web attacks, selling social-media data:

http://www.kurzweilai.net/cyber-threats-2012-search-poisoning-mobile-web-attacks-selling-social-media-data

What is a Keylogger Trojan?: http://antivirus.about.com/od/whatisavirus/a/keylogger.htm?nl=1

Most damaging malware:

http://antivirus.about.com/od/virusdescriptions/tp/worstvirus.htm?nl=1

Man-in-the-Browser Attacks (MitB):

http://antivirus.about.com/od/whatisavirus/a/Man-In-The-Browser-Attacks-Mitb.htm?nl=1

WiFi

The Mobile Web - Learn More About the Mobile Web:

http://websearch.about.com/od/themobileweb/qt/mobile-search.?nl=1

Smart Phones: Keeping Business Data Secure While Allowing Installation of Personal Apps: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111007103237.htm