Word: spreadsheet
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...think, is this it? You've got your car, your apartment, you can buy nice T shirts, but there's a need to create some value." The "virtual" dimension of work in an IT-dominated society also leaves him wanting more. "You transform data into a really good Excel spreadsheet for the next chain in the process, but what do you actually make? There's nothing like the satisfaction of doing something practical, with a physical result." If it sounds like the corporate world has a spiritual yearning, it's also true that the nonprofit world feels the need...
...GROUP PROJECTS Google Spreadsheets As the name suggests, this free Web-based application, one of the latest to come out of Google's shop, will help you organize information into a tidy chart, tabs and all. But the best part about the elegant interface is that it encourages collaboration. That is, it allows multiple users, logged in from different computers, to update the same spreadsheet simultaneously while text-chatting in a separate window. (The chart is stored on a Google server, rather than locally on a PC's hard drive.) You can invite others to edit or view your spreadsheet...
...Research, 28% of U.S. households had broadband access in 2005--and that's not counting access at work, which is prime time for online TV. (When CBS streamed NCAA basketball this spring, it included a "boss button" that fans could use to instantly hide the game under a bogus spreadsheet.) More viewers are skipping TV ads using TiVo or other recorders, whereas webisodes are usually preceded by a brief, unskippable ad. Meanwhile, the ratings of even hit shows have shrunk over the years, and some of those former viewers are having affairs with their desktops...
...practical (that word so loathsome in academic institutions) applications: I envision small courses, perhaps with emphasis on attendance and discussions or presentations, rather than equation sheets and problem sets. I don’t want to use a graphing calculator, or learn to chart population growth on an Excel spreadsheet, but I would like to understand the mechanics and ethics of stem cell research, or speak to a top professor about the intersection of demography and public health. These classes would be based less on minutiae and focus instead on helping to expand our understanding of the big picture, while...
...Watkins started with the moment she discovered the company was hiding losses. "The math on the spreadsheet didn't add up," says Watkins, a certified public accountant. "This was not just aggressive accounting, but fraudulent accounting...