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Big Data Means More Than Big Profits

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The more we use technology in our education and health systems, the more data we collect about how people learn and what keeps us healthy or makes us sick. Of course, data has to be collected in ways that match our value systems and respect ethics, privacy, and informed consent.

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Serendipity and Twitter

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The next day, I'm getting a full-on tour of the BBC newsrooms, a preview of the new BBC News website design, an in-depth demo of the content management system including how to move approved stories around in response to user interest, a graphical overlay on these pages showing top links being clicks, and so on. Opening doors to speaking gigs.

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