The iPhone Will Survive the Storm
The Blackberry Storm looks to be a weak clipper system rather than a hurricane. Meanwhile, the iPhone may be poised to control the weather.
Does YouTube Threaten Text?
YouTube is the #2 search engine in the world. Will digital natives be more video-centric than text-centric?
Content Is Dethroned
Content from yesteryear no longer works in the modern world. We have to re-imagine.
Picture This, Science Teachers!
Amazon’s new iPhone app leverages camera phones and humans in a new way. Can science education take a similar approach?
Suicidal Subscriptions
Is the fate of print pre-ordained, or an outcome of suicidal circulation strategies?
Shrinking Pie = Lost Waste
A major label is now getting most of its revenues from digital sources, but the pie is shrinking. Is it? Or is it just showing how inflated the pie was in the era of fixed media?
10,000 Kindle Subscriptions
The New York Times has 10,000 Kindle subscribers. What else is coming?
Google’s SearchWiki
Google’s new SearchWiki implementation has grabbed some attention, but will it actually make a difference to users?
Downloads as Failure
Bragging about downloads is akin to saying your site doesn’t work well. Authors will soon start to notice.
Obama’s Weekly YouTube-side Chats
Obama is to Roosevelt as YouTube is to radio = a major moment in communications.
President DRE 700
Bow down before your duly elected and merciful leader.
ARL/Ithaka Report on Scholarly Communication
Circular reasoning and tradition cloud an otherwise significant report on what constitutes scholarship today.
Open Source Lessons
Open source has come to hardware, illustrating again why the lessons still don’t apply to scholarship.
6,527 and Counting
It’s only been 6,000+ days since the Web launched, proving that some things are only possible in practice.
Internet Trends 2008
Morgan-Stanley’s 2008 Internet Trends report is out, and the shocks emanate from the complex interrelationships of the trends.