Does thinking about technology as something new and different gerrymander strategies and initiatives in unhelpful ways? Maybe we need to accept that the future has arrived for our users.
The abstract is an element of scientific papers we take for granted. Is that a good idea in a networked information environment gravitating to usage-based measures?
Blackboard is the target of speculation about a takeover, the WSJ reports. What might this mean?
Humans are better at socializing than the social Web’s design allows for. But new levels of sophistication may be coming.
The human capacity to make written symbols is truly astounding.
Even when a paper is retracted, free copies of articles still persist in institutional repositories and public websites. Authority for the accuracy of scientific record must keep pace with open access. Fortunately there is a solution.
With escalating costs and questions about results, higher education is attracting skepticism from an Internet mogul who knows a bubble when he sees one.
Education reform requires educators acting as media players and change agents. Can it happen?
The social Web is creating new ways to do important things — like find things, learn things, and trust things. It’s disruptive in the purest sense.
Thinner, lighter, faster, better — this time, I think we’ll keep it.
An April Fool’s post is bested by reality — but that doesn’t mean the idea isn’t silly anyhow.
Google and Facebook are battling, but looking more and more alike.
Blogging still gets no respect. Is that because we’re more hidebound about our communication advances than the 16th century was?
A best-selling author turns down a $500,000 advance in order to self-publish, while a self-published author who has earned $2 million takes a book contract. What’s going on here?
Does resisting the urge to go online at work lead to worse job performance?