Amazon continues to leverage its platform advantages into the e-reading space — this time, with a smart library-oriented move and an equally smart move toward advertising and sponsorship.
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?
Humans are better at socializing than the social Web’s design allows for. But new levels of sophistication may be coming.
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?
We’re contemplating a remodel. What sites do you think we should take inspiration from?
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.
As we continue to see highly concentrated wealth, corrupt political systems, and a citizenry without civic recourse here in America, the deleterious effects on scholarship, research, and education are mounting.
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.
It’s time to pay up! The Kitchen ends free meals for freeloaders.
Scandal sends shockwaves through library community. Publishers, meanwhile, see business in counter-culture books aimed at naughty librarians.
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?