Stick to Your Ribs: What Should You Do When Your Blackberry Is Frozen?
Technology is literally fruity! Enjoy this classic little sketch again.
Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Moving from Ideas to Action
Making the right choices and the best decisions are crucial to future success. The SSP IN meeting is gearing up to help you meet these challenges. Here’s how.
Mobile Reading REALLY Comes of Age — An Information-packed Slide Deck Worth Viewing
The facts and context for e-reading show strong trends of demand and expectations.
The Power of Curation — "The Drudge Report," Connectedness, Serendipity, and Simplicity
The Drudge Report provides a useful service and drives a disproportionate amount of news traffic. Could academics be disciplined enough to emulate it?
Stick to Your Ribs: Can the Creativity of Social Persuasion Cure "Corporate Asperger's Syndrome"?
This week, we revisit the power of persuasion, and wonder out loud if perhaps publishers suffer from traits that hold back engagement.
Digital Texts in Education — E-Readers Still Have Limitations, But the Path Forward Is Clearer
While e-readers continue to fail crucial tests for academic utility, the alternative hints at more robust devices, not a return to print.
Speed Climbing — A Dizzying Short Film
Enjoy light vertigo? Watch this full-screen.
Reconsidering the Abstract — Are the Unintended Consequences Mounting?
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?
The Real Life Social Network — Facebook Has a Lot to Learn
Humans are better at socializing than the social Web’s design allows for. But new levels of sophistication may be coming.
Unicode, the Video — All 49,000+ Characters in 33 Minutes
The human capacity to make written symbols is truly astounding.
The Kitchen Remodel — Which Sites Should Inspire Us?
We’re contemplating a remodel. What sites do you think we should take inspiration from?
What's In a Name? The Social Web, By Any Other Name, Still Disrupts Effectively
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.
The iPad 2 — This Time, It's a Keeper
Thinner, lighter, faster, better — this time, I think we’ll keep it.
Google +1 — Google Enters the Social Media Fracas With an Air Assault
Google and Facebook are battling, but looking more and more alike.
Kevin Kelly on Generating Value in a Free Copy World
A fascinating talk from last month’s O’Reilly Tools of Change conference, in which Kevin Kelly talks about how the proliferation of screens, the incorporation of gestures and voice, the abundance of data streams, the notion of “always on,” and so […]