We Are All Cyborgs Now — The Humans At the Center of Technology
Extending our mental lives and creating communication wormholes — in addition to carrying more than we ever thought we could — is all the result of becoming cyborgs.
Why Is the Internet Considered to Be "Artificial"?
The artificiality of Internet inventions and experiences is about novelty, not artificiality. We’ve always been pretenders.
What Should You Do When Your Blackberry Is Frozen?
A lovely little skit about what happens when your Blackberry is broken.
Will Your Next Editors Be Cyborgs or Robots?
As new analytical tools emerge, editors can harness them to advance their craft — or find their craft automated out of their hands.
Diverging Content Preferences: Is Baby Bear's Disappearance Cause for Worry?
Short-form and long-form content are flourishing, while that “just right” middle ground is vanishing.
Prediction for 2011 — The Individual Rules!
In 2011, the power of the individual consumer will set your strategies.
Year One: The Born Digital Publisher
New publishers today are all Born Digital in their outlook, eschewing print strategies as expensive and difficult to break into.
Responding to One of Darnton's Three Jeremiads — the Google Books Settlement
An essay in the New York Review of Books about the Google Books Settlement is based on flawed reasoning. Here’s why.
Howard's Pick for 2010: The Tablet Enters the Information Fray
Four days with the iPad became 8 months with it. Meanwhile, friends like the Android tablets joined in.
Ann's Pick for 2010: Print Isn't the Technology of Today . . . or Tomorrow
Our ease with print makes inertia feel natural. But the winners will have facility with many more information technologies than just paper and ink.
Michael's Pick for 2010: The Disruption (or Not) of Scientific Publishing
Why hasn’t scientific publishing been disrupted? The question created one of the year’s most-read posts.
Two Publishers — One Old, One New — Square Off Without Knowing It
The publisher of Harper’s proves himself an anachronist, while O’Reilly scolds other publishers to wake up!
Joe's Picks for 2010: Reckless Enthusiasm and the Platform Wars
It’s been a reckless year marked by books becoming cannon fodder in the platform wars.
Phil's Pick for 2010: The Unintended Use of a Blog Post
A traffic phenomenon from a post about PLoS ONE may indicate that impact factors are more important to authors than PLoS believes.
Alix's Pick for 2010: Higher Education — Turning a Painful Reality Into a Thriving Digital Business
Image via Wikipedia Rather than choosing a “best” of my own posts, I’ve taken a step back to examine what I’ve written this year, in search of an article or theme upon which to expand. Surveying my 2010 contributions, main […]