Category: Writing
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Wikipedia, robot writers, void era...
You might think writing 10,000 articles per day would be impossible. But not for a Swede named Sverker Johansson. He created a computer program that has written a total of 2.7 million articles, making Johansson the most prolific author, by far, on the "internet's encyclopedia." His contributions account for 8.5 percent of the articles on…
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Handwriting. Creativity. Children. The lost wisdom...
Does handwriting matter? Not very much, according to many educators. The Common Core standards, which have been adopted in most states, call for teaching legible writing, but only in kindergarten and first grade. After that, the emphasis quickly shifts to proficiency on the keyboard. But psychologists and neuroscientists say it is far too soon to…
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Human vs. Robot journalists, writing, soul...
What is The Future of Journalism? Data reporting? Drones? Computer-generated news, like the algorithms are already breaking news on today's California earthquake? Case for the latter: Compare the first few paragraphs from two news stories about a sports game, re-published in a recent study. Even with an unexceptional outing for Philip Rivers, the Chargers handled…
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Resurrection of Google Knol: Towards Knol 2.0 and why the good die young...
Knol is not dead. A weird statement to make, especially after Google shut it down some time ago. Let me explain things a little. Knol was a new initiative designed to promote knowledge. Google launched it and promoted it fiercely in the first months, attracting many authors. But what was so special about it? Weren't…
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