At least it seems to have survived thanks to a new buyer. Details are non-existent right now, as with the Bloglines news, but it will be interesting to see what the new owners have in store for Xmarks users.
Personally, I’ve rather been enjoying Firefox Sync, so I’m going to hold off on switching back to Xmarks until I see more details, but I will be keeping an eye out for any announcements.
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I found myself in a precarious position today, having to remove a redaction reason from hundreds of images in Summation. As it turns out, there is no official way to do that in the program itself, short of editing every single redaction one by one. Luckily, I was able to find the bit of text…
“Our psychology of e-mail doesn’t match the reality. We treat them as ephemeral, even though they’re not. And the archival nature of e-mail — or text messages, or Twitter chats, or Facebook conversations — isn’t salient.” It’s so easy to fire off an email, comment, or tweet, without thinking about someone reading it years later….
They’re turning it off on company issued phones, but also – so much for that BYOD policy: The policy also applies to private phones used by employees for work purposes. Communication apps such as WhatsApp, Google Talk, iMessage are also prohibited, the memo said. On one hand, it makes sense. They’ve had issues with compliance,…
And this really brings me back to my point, that we do a poor job of truly understanding science, statistics and cause and effect. We believe that algorithms have all been well-thought out, and produce a “true” result, even when they are trying to predict something as unpredictable as what traffic will look like 20 years from now. We assume social science studies are giving us the “right” answer for how to educate people, or train them for the best outcomes, without considering what we are teaching them about the larger world. We assume that we can tweak one belief, or one thing, without human beings reacting to those changes in unpredictable ways, all the while thinking our one change will cause the reaction we DO predict.
We assume a lot that should never be assumed. We over-simplify a world that actually has more influences than we can possibly account for, and assume that what is really a small statistical difference represents a universal truth.
It doesn’t. There are no simple answers. It takes hard work, hard discussions, and lots of listening to figure out the best way forward. Don’t wait for AI to tell you what to do, it may be missing quite a bit.
Ten of the top Mac Utilities, bundled together and selling for $49.99. How could I resist? Actually, there are a couple of tools in there, like WebSnapper and Timeline3d that may come in quite handy for work or personal projects, and when you throw in things I’d like to experiment with, like Hyperspaces, Parallels and…