Thursday, July 30, 2009
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Friday, July 24, 2009
Thursday, July 23, 2009
It Is The Economy: Should We Invest?
Sprott Comment July 2009
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A New Open Video Format
The new format is called Ogg Theora. It is a Flash-like program that is completely open-source. This will allow easy mashups of videos by its users.
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Amazing Permanent Interactive LED wall in Montreal
PHOTONIC Dreams (photonicdreams.com) created the original LED video wall of La Vitrine, in Montreal, Canada
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
The Power of Social Technology: Obama Campaign Case
Stanford University professor Dr. Aaker discusses the power of Social Technology and how it was used successfully during Obama's campaign.
The Power of Social Technology: Obama Campaign Case from Jennifer Aaker on Vimeo.
Friday, July 17, 2009
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Douglas Rushkoff on Stephen Colbert Show
Douglas Rushkoff discusses his book "Life Inc." on the show. He thinks that life should not be managed like a corporation even though corporation have been extremely successful in producing and delivering wide variety of goods and services to us.
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Friday, July 10, 2009
Test Your Awareness: Do The Test
The video shows that the effect of attention and how it make us see what we want to see and miss other objects in the same scene.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Innovation at Google
Tom Davenport discusses Google and its innovative business model that uses organized chaos as its strategy.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Monday, July 6, 2009
Friday, July 3, 2009
How to Time the Market
George Soros is the founder of Quantum Fund. He is currently the Chairman of Soros Fund Management. He is credited with the phrase "the man who broke the Bank of England." in a massive currency market play in which his hedge fund won big.
He also wrote a book "The Alchemy of Finance" where he discusses the idea of Reflexivity and the inherent instability of financial markets. In his view financial markets are based upon self reinforcing systems and that causes markets to move in unpredictable manner. He proposes strict regulations to stamp out the extreme volatility in financial markets.
In this video he talks to WSJ Deputy Managing Editor Alan Murray about market instability and the difficulty of the investors face in making sound investments.
He also wrote a book "The Alchemy of Finance" where he discusses the idea of Reflexivity and the inherent instability of financial markets. In his view financial markets are based upon self reinforcing systems and that causes markets to move in unpredictable manner. He proposes strict regulations to stamp out the extreme volatility in financial markets.
In this video he talks to WSJ Deputy Managing Editor Alan Murray about market instability and the difficulty of the investors face in making sound investments.
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Michael Jackson - Liberian Girl
A rare video from 1980s featuring many different artists from Michael Jackson.
Community Garden in Atlanta and Urban Renewal
The CNN video shows urban farming project in poor section of Atlanta, Georgia.
via Robert Paterson's Blog
Can the urban city centers who are losing population and job can be revived by going back to basics? that is to revert back to urban gardening and farming and by relearning the agricultural practices by individual families.
via Robert Paterson's Blog
Can the urban city centers who are losing population and job can be revived by going back to basics? that is to revert back to urban gardening and farming and by relearning the agricultural practices by individual families.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
IIT Indian Institute of Technology Premier Engineering Educational Institutions in India
A Newer Revised version of this article is here
http://randomthougts101.blogspot.com/2010/12/indian-institute-of-technology-premier.html
India is a large diverse country with world's second largest population over one billion people. It also is home to some of the most difficult Engineering schools. These schools have very difficult entrance requirement and a rigorous Engineering curriculum.
You can move around the map or change the view of the map by using the control bar on the top left side of the map and by using the satellite and hybrid option to add more information to the map.
The graduates from these seven sister institutions in general have done well locally in India as well internationally with US as being one of the main destination.
Video One
Video Two
IIT graduate have made their mark by appearing in highly popular cartoon strip Dilbert by Scott Adams.
In this strip Asok who has been promoted to project manager from the lowly intern position boasts about his mental prowess simultaneously displaying a low emotional intelligence quotient.
Septemebr 15,2003
The next day's strip builds on the same theme
and it is now February 1,2009 Asok has survived in his job and has mellowed considerably. He has learned how not to boast about his superior mental abilities to function within corporate culture while the company is going down hill financially under severe recession.
and recently he fell for a management trick from his pointy hair boss
http://randomthougts101.blogspot.com/2010/12/indian-institute-of-technology-premier.html
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The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), are a group of thirteen autonomous engineering and technology-oriented institutes of higher education established and declared as Institutes of National Importance by the Parliament of India. The IITs were created to train scientists and engineers, with the aim of developing a skilled workforce to support the economic and social development of India after independence in 1947. The students and alumni of IITs are colloquially referred to as IITians. SourceThere will be few more new Indian Institutes of Technology in the near future under an expansion plan.
In order of establishment, they are located in Kharagpur (1950; as IIT 1951[1]), Mumbai (1958), Chennai (1959), Kanpur (1959), Delhi (1961; as IIT 1963), Guwahati (1994), Roorkee (1847; as IIT 2001), Bhubaneswar (2008), Gandhinagar (2008), Hyderabad (2008), Patna (2008), Punjab (2008) and Rajasthan (2008). The Government of India has announced plans to add three more IITs, to be established at Indore, Mandi and Varanasi (via conversion of the IT BHU). Some IITs were established with financial assistance and technical expertise from UNESCO, Germany, the United States, and Soviet Union. Each IIT is an autonomous university, linked to the others through a common IIT Council, which oversees their administration. They have a common admission process for undergraduate admissions, using the Joint Entrance Examination (popularly known as IIT-JEE) to select around 4,000 undergraduate candidates a year. Postgraduate Admissions are done on the basis of the GATE, JMET, JAM and CEED. About 15,500 undergraduate and 12,000 graduate students study in the IITs, in addition to research scholars. SourceThese institutions are geographically distributed all across India. The following interactive map that allows different overlays, pan and zoom options shows their locations on the map.
You can move around the map or change the view of the map by using the control bar on the top left side of the map and by using the satellite and hybrid option to add more information to the map.
The graduates from these seven sister institutions in general have done well locally in India as well internationally with US as being one of the main destination.
IIT alumni have achieved success in a variety of professions.[2] Owing to the autonomy of the IITs, these institutes are among those few institutes (the other institutes being National Institutes of Technology or the NITs) in India that offer degrees in technology (B. Tech.) at the undergraduate level as opposed to the Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degrees awarded by most other Indian universities. Most of the IITs were created in early 1950s and 1960s as the Institutes of National Importance through special acts of Indian Parliament. The success of the IITs led to the creation of the Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIIT) in the late 1990s and in the 2000s. SourceThe two videos below tell many interesting facts and stories about these institutions of Engineering learning.
Video One
Video Two
IIT graduate have made their mark by appearing in highly popular cartoon strip Dilbert by Scott Adams.
In this strip Asok who has been promoted to project manager from the lowly intern position boasts about his mental prowess simultaneously displaying a low emotional intelligence quotient.
Septemebr 15,2003The next day's strip builds on the same theme
and it is now February 1,2009 Asok has survived in his job and has mellowed considerably. He has learned how not to boast about his superior mental abilities to function within corporate culture while the company is going down hill financially under severe recession.
and recently he fell for a management trick from his pointy hair boss