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Facebook, Diaspora, Public, Private, and the Fork in the Road

Can Diaspora restore social networking to personal control?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • May 21, 2010
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Get the Picture: PowerPoint, Systems Dynamics, the Military, and the New York Times

What we know is important, but how we interpret it is vital. Getting the NYTimes/PowerPoint narrative right requires a little more complex knowledge.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • May 19, 2010
  • 17 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

PowerPoint Karaoke, the SSP Annual Meeting, and Dueling Presenters: Contribute to the Chaos

A sadistic challenge has been created for two presenters at the upcoming SSP Annual Meeting. Get in touch with your Marquis de Sade of PPT, and up the ante for us.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • May 19, 2010
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

iPad Usability: Confusing, a Prevalence of Print Metaphors, and Weird Interaction Models

Jakob Nielsen releases his first usability studies of the iPad. Bottom line? Users are not being served, interfaces are “wacky.”

  • By Kent Anderson
  • May 18, 2010
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

Financial Times Hits the iPad: A Video Tour

A short video tour of the Financial Times’ new iPad app — and a question.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • May 18, 2010
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Etiquette and the Electric Friendship Generator

This film from the early days of Facebook illustrates the perils of poor etiquette with online friendship generators.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • May 14, 2010
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

E-Readers Will Take Centerstage If Prices Drop, Yet Publishers Still Have Two Left Feet

E-readers are poised to go mainstream, yet publishers continue to be wallflowers. Haven’t we learned to dance at all during this last digital decade?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • May 14, 2010
  • 29 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Twitter’s Business Services Enter Beta Testing, Focus on Commercial Uses for Short Messages

One year later, Twitter’s business services plans seem to be rolling out.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • May 13, 2010
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

The First Four Years of College: Why Are Students Spending Less Time Studying?

A new economic analysis of the time spent realizing a four-year degree shows decreases across the board since 1961. What does it mean? Why is it happening?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • May 11, 2010
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Is Facebook Eroding Privacy? Or Does Social Media Require Us to Lower Our Expectations?

Facebook argues that its erosions of privacy reflect changing social norms. But is what it’s doing just plain wrong?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • May 10, 2010
  • 20 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Friday Fun: Bill Murray Reads Poetry to Construction Workers

While building a new poetry center, construction stops so Bill Murray can share a few poems (and jokes) with the workers. A lovely moment, captured in video.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • May 7, 2010
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Has Publishing Revealed the Achilles’ Heel of Webist Political Philosophies?

Does the power of prestige and prestige-granting organization confound the politics of the Web?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • May 6, 2010
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Traditional Measures of Quality: Irrelevant, Miscast, Outdated, and Inhibiting?

How we measure quality may be a form of vestigial elitism, stemming from the print age. And it may be holding us back.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • May 5, 2010
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

A Future of Touch and Gestures: New Interfaces Driving Scientific Information Presentation

Image by jdlasica via Flickr For scholarly publishers, librarians, and readers, the article remains the coin of the realm — a text-based narrative that strips data of all but its most superficial aspects and doesn’t integrate itself into the body […]

  • By Alix Vance
  • May 4, 2010
  • 16 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Look to Production to Predict the Next Digital Breakthrough — Editorial Offices

Is editorial knowledge generation the last “production shop” available for digital improvement?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • May 4, 2010
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

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