Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 22, 2013

Caltech feeds an intense curiosity, a burning desire to understand, to grapple with hard problems and to own them! Keep the business focus on those top markets that justify the venture capital returns, that feed our successful business enterprises. But, allow the benefits of technology to reach far beyond the top of the pyramid.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 19, 2014

My family is still walking around out of balance, always expecting to see our dog, starting to go to feed her or let her out. Although the passing of a pet isn''t "supposed" to affect us so strongly, for many of us it clearly does. There''s a dog-sized hole in our lives, and it is a much bigger hole than I ever expected.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2011

Thus the correlation between the SMS feed and the building damage is an artifact or spurious correlation. A correlation was found between building damage and SMS streams, but only because both were correlated with the simple existence of buildings. Here are two other examples of confounding effects.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2009

These sites should be working together using technology like RSS feeds. And All for Good does draw on feeds from other sites. Q: What's the difference between All for Good and other service websites like VolunteerMatch, Network for Good and Obama's Serve.gov? A: More will be revealed. We're all in this together in service.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

I had a technical conversation, which quickly exhausted my technical depth, with WIPO’s tech guru, Michael Jung, about how to feed information about Bookshare titles into the TIGAR system to make it easier to find a title from Bookshare.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

In her spare time, she updates her Twitter and Facebook feeds and engages with her Kindle, iPod and other assorted tech toys. A specialist in technology and culture, Janet came to work for Benetech this summer as a communications fellow after a long career in dotcoms and newspapers, most recently USA Today.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 31, 2007

This is one of those peculiar opportunities where a $100 m check will both jump-start a process globally and set in motion a self-reinforcing, self-multiplying process of positive feed-back loops in a jillion public and private sectors. More knowledge leads to yet more emotion and reason to get yet more knowledge.

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