Is the Internet Bad for Our Brains? The Answer Is Subtle and Complex, But Quite Reassuring
More proof that Google isn’t making us “stooopid” — rather, we’re just being human, and that’s OK.
More proof that Google isn’t making us “stooopid” — rather, we’re just being human, and that’s OK.
The social media revolutions continues to roll onward.
Hype and marketing angles aren’t adequate ways to truly help real people succeed in the information age.
We talk about value chains and disintermediation. What if it’s a web, and it’s about reorientation and new intersections?
A viral book sensation’s obvious story may not be as obvious as some think, harder to replicate, and indicative of a strong counter-trend.
The power of Twitter was on full display on May 1, as one tweet alerted an audience of mass-media proportions about the killing of Osama Bin Laden.
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.
Humans are better at socializing than the social Web’s design allows for. But new levels of sophistication may be coming.
Google and Facebook are battling, but looking more and more alike.
Publishing supplemental files online now common, but commenting remains rare, a new study reports.
Transcribe Bentham loses its grant after six months, and has to wind down.
A study of social media adoption hides some sensible lessons within a jumble of other signals.
New publishing initiatives link concepts like “importance” to social metrics like popularity and sharing. Is this logical? Can these metrics be easily gamed?
Bob Stein has proposed a taxonomy for social reading, which refers to all the conversations and comments that take place about a book.
The keynote of the SSP IN meeting inadvertently raises a question — Is it possible to market new e-learning tools without blaming teachers or the educational system?