A Trillion URLs

With an index now of 1 trillion URLs, Google is poised to dominate search. But will Cuil throw a wrench in the works?

Unfair Use

Blogging, like journalism, amplifies the dissemination of scientific information. But tensions still exist between bloggers and the mainstream media.

E-ink Hits the Newsstands

Coming in September, according to a story in the New York Times, the first e-ink magazine cover will grace our newsstands. Esquire has designed an e-ink cover that will flash the words, “The 21st Century Begins Now” from an e-ink […]

Eigenfactor

Does the Principle of Repeated Improvement Result in Better Journal Impact Estimates than Raw Citation Counts?

The Foldable E-Book

The New York Times recently profiled the Readius, a foldable reader that uses e-ink and wireless communication so you can read books, magazines, and emails on a 5″ diagonal screen, from a device about the size of a cell phone […]

The Age of the Blog

Michael Bhaskar at theDigitalist.net has written an interesting two-part rumination on the place of blogs in the publisher milieu. In it, he neatly slices publishers away from the technological aspect of blogs — wisely dismissing publishers as possible creators of […]

Wildfire or Tipping Point?

The notion that a small group of highly-influential people are responsible for trends may need to be replaced by a more random notion that any person can start a trend when the conditions are right.