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British engineers have warned that the UK may be dangerously over-reliant on satellite-navigation signals, with little or no back-up and risk of cascade failures.

Here are a few resources to help you navigate the ISTE conference: Official conference web site Conference Ning Changes in the conference program ISTEVision Edubloggercon Exploring Excellence lounges (including ISTE Unplugged) […]

If you haven’t visited this blog’s actual web site lately, I’ve been tweaking a few navigational items. Probably the biggest change is that I added a horizontal navigation bar up […]

Over at Marketing Profs: Daily Fix, Elaine Fogel recently riffed on the fact that many university sites have become almost impossible to navigate, due primarily to a proliferation of poorly-organized […]

Contributing to the uprisings across the Middle East is the suppression of democratic aspirations by authoritarian regimes. Important too is the dangerous state of the region’s economies.rn

Navigating and coordinating all of today’s social networking tools at the office spells w-a-s-t-e. Unifying the functions across platforms into one software will boost productivity for business.

Check out the transcript of Will Richardson’slive online chat about the educational benefits of social networking. Part of the fun at this year’s T+L conference! FYI, tomorrow is an online […]

Last week the MIT Center for Real Estate convened the MIT 2011 Real Estate Symposium engagingleaders in real estate finance, design, development and management. JoiningAvalon Bay’s William McLaughlin, AC Nielsen’s […]

Listen to this post! Here are a couple of recent (and great) posts from Seth Godin: On becoming the (January 15) We tried everything (January 12) How is your organization […]

The recent skirmish between Apple and Google — filled with legal inuendos, regulatory scuffles and high-profile departures — has, if anything, crystallized for me what I had been thinking for […]

The Wired blog has put together a gallery of 17 photos documenting the evolution of the computer mouse over the past 45 years. It all started with a simple wooden […]

Most schools currently expect students to somehow (maybe magically?) be responsible, successful digital citizens upon graduation from high school – able to navigate all of the intricacies of a digital, […]

Big Think spoke to The New York Times chief theater critic, Ben Brantley, about the present and future state of journalism and online criticism. 

The global financial crisis and the Internet have transformed the relationship between business and stakeholder. The CEO Whisperer offers his advice on how to navigate through this brave new world.

Too many designers, marketers and concerned observers have declared universal design to be the universal answer to meet the new needs of the growing numbers of older baby boomer consumers. […]

In today’s Wall Street Journal, technology guru Walt Mossberg gave a big thumbs-up to the design and navigation features of the new Hulu.com: “I’ve been testing Hulu, and I am […]

When arrested in 1936 during a protest over the dismissal of 500 artists from the WPAFederal Art Project, Lee Krasner told the unsuspecting police officer processing her that her name […]

photo © 2008 Eddie~S | more info (via: Wylio) This morning the New York Times published a phenomenal article on the struggles of parents to keep up with their kids’ […]

On East German transit maps of Berlin, the city’s western enclave was an unmentionable obstacle

Vicki Davis just blogged that an innovative teacher friend of hers has been shut down by her school district’s leadership because: No one else is doing this in our state, […]

I believe pretty strongly that we should be removing restrictions on students’ access to the Internet in school as they get older. They’re going to live in an unfiltered world. […]

n Since 2003, IDEO has distributed more than 10,000 decks of its Method Cards to innovators and creative types around the world. Now, the legendary design & innovation firm is […]

Regular readers will know that I take a jaundiced view of former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair. Of course he left office some time ago, and in normal circumstances this […]

I realized that in two years I had never added a link to subscribe to Dangerously Irrelevant via e-mail. LeaderTalk has had such a link since its inception. So I […]

What a long strange trip it’s been for U.S. automakers Ford and GM. After a recent multi-year stretch in which their names were synonymous with “cars we don’t want to […]

Product development and launch was easier when the consumer was young enough to see everything as new and novel. While admittedly fast moving and hard to keep, the ‘tween through […]

There can be few drivers who have not wanted to hurl a G.P.S. system out of the window when it guides the car into a traffic jam. Will new emotionally sensitive systems help?

Maybe this is over-analyzing things a bit, but does the recently announced departure of Google CFO George Reyes strike you as a bit disconcerting — especially if you’re a fan […]

A middle school librarian in New Jersey has gotten some media attention for her anti-Wikipedia campaign: Linda O’Connor regards Wikipedia the same way former first lady Nancy Reagan campaigned against […]

The Strange Death of Radical Journalism  And so to another inconvenient truth that should trouble anyone interested in the clash of ideas, real passion in journalism, polemic and a radicalism […]