TECH Dozens

Not much tech news during the Thanksgiving Holiday week, so no TECH Dozens magazine.

Next TECH daily on Wednesday 11/30/16

Best States for American Black, Hispanic, Asian, and Female Tech – Vers 1.0f

Last update: Thursday 12/18/16 

This report is a set of FAQs. It answers basic questions about the diversity of the U.S. information technology sector. Its extensive answers are based on U.S. Census data related to American Black, Hispanic, Asian, and female tech professionals in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia in 2015. (Note: the DLL has also published a supplement to this report, "Foreign Professionals: U.S. Tech’s Other Pipelines – Version 1.0")

Readers are advised to view this lengthy report on their workstations, not on their smartphones. They should also use recent versions of Chrome, Safari, or Firefox ... This draft will be modified in response to comments, suggestions, and corrections that we receive from our readers ... :-)

Facebook's challenge to democracy

Last update: Monday 11/21/16

Facebook now reigns as the unchallenged master of social network analysis, which is why Facebook can make such good guesses when it asks, "Do you know ZZZ?" Of course Facebook uses machine learning, or comparably powerful algorithms, to maintain the social networks of each of its more than 1.65 billion active users.

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 11/19/16

Last update: Sunday 11/20/16 @ 2:30 pm

This week's cover =  Facebook & Google confront fake news ... Other top stories = R.I.P. Gwen Ifill, Black TV news pioneer ... Microsoft joins Linux Foundation ... Grace Hopper and Margaret Hamilton awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how HBCUs and other organizations are promoting skills that yield more diverse employment opportunities and more diverse entrepreneurial opportunities in information technology (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant innovations in Ed Tech and Info Tech ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 11/19/16.

A. HBCUS | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

Calendars:  #EdTech and #DiversityInTech 

Top Stories 2015: Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 11/12/16

Last update: Sunday 11/13/16 @ 2:30 pm

This week's cover = "Data Science" failed to predict Trump's victory ... Other top stories = Silicon Valley's initial reactions ... Opponents' initial demonstrations ... Zuckerberg denies Facebook had impact on the election

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how HBCUs and other organizations are promoting skills that yield more diverse employment opportunities and more diverse entrepreneurial opportunities in information technology (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant innovations in Ed Tech and Info Tech ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 11/12/16.

A. HBCUS | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

Calendars:  #EdTech and #DiversityInTech 

Top Stories 2015: Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4

The Silent Majority Strikes Back ... Again

Last update Tuesday 7/10/18

DLL Editor's -- While reviewing some of my old posts on this blog, I came across this one posted on the day after the 2016 election ... and I felt the same chill that I felt when I wrote it almost two years ago because of my fear that nothing has changed. So I am tweeting it again.

DLL Editor's note -- No Tech Daily today. Like many of you, I'm still processing the meaning of President Trump's unexpected victory yesterday.

P. S. The independent pollsters, the state-of-the-art professionals who constructed complex computer models for their election projections got it all wrong ... and so did their "Data Science" fanboys like me. Why? 

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 11/5/16

Last update: Sunday 11/6/16 @ 12:15 pm

This week's cover = Facebook's

record breaking quarterly revenue and profits ... Other top stories = LinkedIn adds salary data to site ... FBI investigates its own Twitter account

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how HBCUs and other organizations are promoting skills that yield more diverse employment opportunities and more diverse entrepreneurial opportunities in information technology (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant innovations in Ed Tech and Info Tech ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 11/5/16.

A. HBCUS | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

Calendars:  #EdTech and #DiversityInTech 

Top Stories 2015: Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4