Quality, chaos, and sustainability — terms we throw around, yet each requires more careful thought. Nicholas Carr and Clay Shirky square off to debate where we’re headed in roughly these terms.
When clearly observable facts are ignored and post-hoc analysis abandoned, great achievements can be undercut by injustices.
Facebook continues to try to redefine identity as an addressable single element for its business model. Should we monkeys allow it?
Can Diaspora restore social networking to personal control?
Jakob Nielsen releases his first usability studies of the iPad. Bottom line? Users are not being served, interfaces are “wacky.”
Trends in mobile, cloud, and personal computing all point to a redefinition of privacy, with convenience and value competing effectively for preeminence.
Scientists seem uninterested in participating in social media offerings, as the rewards offered are generally of insufficient value to warrant the effort required. Instead of just hoping that scientists will suddenly see the value in your product, why not offer incentives for participation?
A short video of the myriad ways to pronounce “moleskine,” the name of a favorite notebook.
Facebook argues that its erosions of privacy reflect changing social norms. But is what it’s doing just plain wrong?
How we measure quality may be a form of vestigial elitism, stemming from the print age. And it may be holding us back.
The willingness of industry to sponsor open access articles may bias your access to reliable health information.
The Public Library of Science was once a radical force, but is now dependent on author-pays bulk-publishing for its livelihood, which introduces all sorts of problems for every journal publisher. What went wrong?
Mobile computing is the norm, but it also creates easy trading ground for our privacy. Is this just the new normal?
Twitter and Ning are both tremendously popular online tools-but popularity does not immediately translate into revenue. While the two companies are in decidedly different positions, each is trying to find a way to monetize all that traffic.
Lava Lamps can work under difficult conditions, but would we still want to watch them?