When Newspapers Are Gone
Seth Godin wonders if we’ll miss newspapers. For a growing proportion of the population, it’s already a moot point.
A Journal Feeds Wikipedia
A journal begins requiring authors to submit peer-reviewed pages to Wikipedia. Is this a great idea?
Will the iPhone Kill the Kindle?
Has the iPhone put the Kindle in the corner? Or will users be predictably irrational and complicate things for publishers?
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?
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.
The Article Download Game
The Usage Factor may come with unanticipated consequences: article spam and malfeasance.
Many Eyes = Many Brains
Socially networked data visualization becomes a reality with Many Eyes.
Renaissance II
Are we in the early days of a new Renaissance? One keen observer agrees, and trends point in that direction.
Blogs Move Mainstream
A new Technorati report on the state of the blogosphere jibes with observations that blogs have become mainstream.
Google’s “In Quotes”
One of the great joys of the computer age is that we can slice and dice digital information and try to make new sense of it. It doesn’t decay, and the results come quickly. The recently unveiled Many Eyes is […]