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POPSiPhone The Silver Lining Theory holds that in every dark cloud there is a silver lining and in every silver lining there is a dark cloud. This clip shows clearly that the iPhone does have its drawbacks. This clip was taken from an article about the pros and cons of media convergence (old media meets new media) and how it can be leveraged for business
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POPS'Chemical equator' keeps southern air clean The virtual map says it all. Now it means the approach to the solution of the pollution problem needs to be tackled in different ways in each hemisphere. Atmospheric pollution is only one problem. More investigation needs to be done into the nature of oceanic pollution. it did make me wonder of the Nuclear Fusion experiments on Mururoa (Aopuni) and Bikini atolls in French Polynesia last Century. The first nuclear test was conducted on July 2, 1966, code named Aldebaran. France abandoned nuclear testing in the atmosphere in 1974 and moved testing underground in the midst of intense world pressure. A total of 147 underground nuclear tests were conducted at Mururoa and Fangataufa. This practice created much controversy as cracking of the atolls was discovered, A 1979 test conducted at half the usual depth caused a large submarine landslide on the southwest rim of the atoll. Just somehow seemed relevant
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POPSWhy the UK Needs a Palin
But the absence of redneck representation is also partly a function of Britain’s recent political convergence. The main parties have crowded into the ideological centre, in pursuit of the magical swing voters in key constituencies. More extreme views inevitably get marginalised: they may be widely held, but in places and geographical patterns that make them electorally safe to ignore. So the loudest voices articulating the redneck attitude belong to blood-spitting tabloid newspapers. Liberal Britons who skip the Sun and the Daily Mail rarely encounter it, or indeed rednecks themselves, unless they meet at motorway service stations or on budget air flights. They are as distant from each other, intellectually, as are the denizens of New York and the Ozarks. It isn’t only the rednecks who ought to worry about the consequences of this. These include the stark decline in turnout at general elections—concentrated at the bottom of the social scale—and the creeping rise, in some places, of
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POPSThe Coming Convergence The message is clear: the choices we make now will converge to create a near and distant future that will be almost unbelievably wonderful or unimaginably catastrophic, or both. This knowledgeable, fascinating glimpse into the future is a must read for everyone interested in technology, upcoming innovations in business, science fiction, and the future.
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POPSKey News Audiences Now Blend Online and Traditional Sources For more than a decade, the audiences for most traditional news sources have steadily declined, as the number of people getting news online has surged. However, today it is not a choice between traditional sources and the internet for the core elements of today's news audiences.
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POPSPolice raid RNC protesters headquarters Are Minnesota authorities more suspicious of what goes on behind closed doors? Are they less tolerant of groups planning on exercising their right to freedom of speech? Perhaps the police were taking their motto, to ‘Serve and Protect’, a tad bit too seriously when they busted in with guns drawn in order to issue a fire code violation. But they did get some nice photos to add to their collection.
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POPSYard Management with RFID Largest ever yard management project ditches middleware for a location agnostic platform. Goes far beyond what Red Prairie or InSynch claim as it also considers location based services. See http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/view/4278/
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POPSAfter convergence: what connects? Edited by Caroline Bassett (University of Sussex, UK), Maren Hartmann (University of the Arts Berlin, Germany), Kate O'Riordan (University of Sussex, UK)
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