Consuming News in the Age of Curation

There is a lot of noise online at the moment and finding good content is tough. We all have about 3 or 4 sites where we stop to reade news and entertainment every day but increasingly our media consumption is coming to us via curated sources like our own personal networks. There has beena huge shiftfrom the old model where “gatekeepers” dictated what content we consumed and how we accessed it a new model in which curation plays the primary roll....

5 min · 1010 words · Dawn Burke

Contemplating automated testing? Calculate your ROI first

Contemplating automated testing? Calculate your ROI first Step-by-step guide to calculating ROI and evaluating the effectiveness of automated testing The basics of test automation ROI calculation First and foremost, let’s look at the basic method of ROI calculation. The most commonly used formula for automated testing is the following: However, each company will have to take into account their own specifics, pre-existing problems as well as natural trends in software development to apply this calculation correctly....

9 min · 1788 words · Steven Walker

Content control in the Age of AOL

This post is a designed meditation on publications that are strictly digital, and their future under the new reality of agglomeration through acquisition. Yes, the great landscape of blogs and digital media is a-changin,’ and there is no more conspicuous face in the matter than AOL. AOL, a hulking relic in the very definition of the phrase, coming back from the dial-up grave, is on the warpath with a checkbook. It is, quite literally, redrawing the map of online content....

9 min · 1809 words · Mary Keller

Contrary to popular belief, middle-aged entrepreneurs do better

Bill Gates was 21 when he and Paul Allen registered Microsoft. Steve Jobs was 22 when he and Steve Wozniak launched Apple. Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook in his Harvard dormitory. The biographies of these tech billionaires who achieved great success in their twenties have helped cement the perception that entrepreneurship is a young person’s game. Not true. Such stories are the exception rather than the norm. Starting young can have some clear advantages....

4 min · 732 words · Catherine Johnson

Control the laws of magnetism with the Flux Original Scientific Toy, on sale for $47 off

TLDR:A two-century old law of magnetism makes the Flux Original Scientific Toy endlessly fascinating. Any number of silly knickknacks and tchotchkes line most people’s desks. While they’re fun momentary diversions or little timewasters, not many also have something to say about science and the world around us. Meanwhile, simple toys really are the best. Taking all of that into consideration, theFlux Original Scientific Toy and Magnet Shield Bundle ($101. 99 after code ANNUAL15; 20 percent offfrom TNW Deals) are all but guaranteed to fascinate, a cool scientific principle right at the forefront of a fidget style device that can keep the hands busy while it also makes the mind think, how does it do that?...

3 min · 468 words · Brittney Jones
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