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Slicing and Dicing — Do Distinctions Between Users' Technologies Make Sense Anymore?

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.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Apr 21, 2011
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Some Lessons From Our Reactions to Wikileaks

Wikileaks teaches us a number of lessons, the most important being that the world will change, whether we like it or not.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Dec 21, 2010
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

It’s Going Too Fast — Can Embargoes Manage the Real-time Web?

Previous experience with information traveling so fast it goes out of control suggests that part of filtering includes managing release points.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Aug 12, 2010
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Mobile Devices and Privacy — Why It’s So Easy to Swap Personal Information to Satisfy an Itch

Mobile computing is the norm, but it also creates easy trading ground for our privacy. Is this just the new normal?

  • By Alix Vance
  • Apr 20, 2010
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

The Big Web Site Build: Are We Approaching the End of an Era?

With Google, Twitter, Facebook, and email doing most of the work, why are we building big, expensive, multifaceted sites? Are we being strategic? Or are we in a rut?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Mar 10, 2010
  • 23 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

More and More People Adopt Social Media — But What They Use Varies

More people are using social networks, but different ones at different ages, but mostly by choice. Will professional usage of social networks ever be worthwhile enough to drive adoption?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Feb 2, 2010
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

Information Subscriptions Continue to Evolve and Thrive — Why Are Publishers Slow to Adapt?

The subscription model is more prevalent than ever, but it’s also different in important ways. What can publishers learn and implement?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Jan 25, 2010
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Why Anti-Social Media Will Fail in the Coming Years

Social media is becoming the norm. Will laggards be viewed as anti-social in 2010?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Dec 16, 2009
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

iPhone-casting: A New Door Opens?

A new iPhone application lets you podcast from wherever you are. The results may open a new door on audio expression for many of us.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Jun 28, 2009
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

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