Tag: internet
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Broadband Panaceas
The recent release of new economic growth measures has prompted once again again a debate on regional, from which we can generally read urban versus rural, development in Ireland. To listen to some commentators you would imagine that beyond the M50 ring-road or beyond Blarney there is an economic wasteland, with those few people…
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Parliamentary Committee on Communications member confuses browsers with websites
Sigh What can one say… Patrick O’Donovan is a member of the Dail Committee on Communications. The government of which he is a member is mad keen on the aul knowledge economy, cloud commuters and all that. Today, he has called for opensource internet browsers to be banned. Yep. Hard to see how we will…
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MOOC and me
So, starting a MOOC next week, on astrobiology and the search for extra terrestrial life. Hosted by coursera, it's out of Edinburgh. I'm interested to see how it works, and in particular the way it works as a student. MOOCs aren't going to replace the traditional way of doing higher education, but they are a…