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Digital technologies and the Internet are affecting every aspect of film production, distribution, marketing, and consumption and have spawned the online film festival.
In order to grapple with the future, we must first take a big step back and understand the historical pattern of technology disruptions. The story begins by recalling the original […]
In an action unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered service providers to shut down all international connections to the Internet.
Over at Portfolio magazine, there’s a predictably controversial interview with billionaire Mark Cuban, who declares that — at least for the next five years — “the Internet is dead and […]
Why and how online ad sites need to catch up in terms of aesthetics and usability. They should integrate social recommendations and filter the chaos, for starters.
David Warlick’s recent comments about rural Internet access got me thinking again about an issue I’ve discussed with my students. I think we need some kind of national rural Internet […]
The latest report from the feds reminds us that there’s still a lot of work to be done to close the digital divide. Here are a few highlights from the […]
The Internet’s down here at NECC 2009. “Too many people it overloaded the system” has been the response. n WRONG ANSWER. The convention center knew 14,000 techies were coming. […]
The Web of the immediate future is one that is increasingly visual, empathetic and design-centric. If it had a gender, it would be female.
The latest Report of the Week (ROTW) is actually two reports, both related to Internet connectivity. The first report, brought to my attention by David Warlick , comes from the […]
Search is broken, and everyone is scrambling to fix it. Could social networking make search technology potent again?
What is the best strategy to learn / memorize? Taking a look at Amazon you will find a wide variety of books on that topic and I am pretty sure […]
The next big thing that will rock the Internet is machine to machine connectivity (M2M for short), in other words, machines bypassing people in order to connect to the Internet.
VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and thus making video calls via services like Skype or Google Talk are already a well established standard in the tech community. According to a […]
Today is the last day of Chart Week here at Dangerously Irrelevant. Today’s post addresses teacher professional development regarding classroom Internet usage. All data are from the recently-released NCES report, […]
Big Think spoke to The New York Times chief theater critic, Ben Brantley, about the present and future state of journalism and online criticism.
I heard about the death of Osama Bin Laden the same way a lot of other people across the country did – while I was doing something else on a […]
There has been much talk about facebook and twitter revolutions in the Middle East, but given the internet’s rather low infiltration rate in Yemen – I think roughly 200,000 lines* […]
The majority of people who met their current partner online did not find love through dating sites, but chat rooms (24%), social networking sites (14%), bulletin boards (8%) and a variety of different sites.
Today is the second day of Chart Week here at Dangerously Irrelevant. Yesterday’s topic, Internet access in public schools and public school classrooms, may not have been very exciting for […]
Discussions of China tend to focus on size – a nation of over 1.3 billion people certainly deserves attention from business and investors worldwide. But, ‘total’ numbers reveal little about […]
Today I just wanted to bring up a few examples of bad “science” floating around the internet. Finding articles/posts like these always get me riled up, but I wonder how […]
Faced with the prospect of raising children in a world even more wired than theirs, a new breed of parents are redefining child rearing for an age of digitally native children.
by Marion Ginopolis, Guest Blogger Recent attendance at a Stanley Cup celebration for the Carolina Hurricanes brought to mind a quote from hockey great, Wayne Gretzky, when asked the secret […]
Deep in the lush undergrowth of corporate America, security, consulting and PR companies see lucrative business opportunities in helping WikiLeaks targets get their retaliation in first.
My latest roundup of links and tools… By now we should be thinking about the Internet like we do water and electricity Slate Magazine notes that Camp McCain . . […]
Brett Arends tells how he transformed his Barnes & Noble Nook e-reader into a functioning tablet device with an Android OS using free and legal software from the Internet.
Today is the third day of Chart Week here at Dangerously Irrelevant. Yesterday’s post on student laptops and wireless classrooms discussed how many public schools lend laptops to students and […]
[cross-posted at The Gate] In case you haven’t been following the issue, the federal government can’t make up its mind regarding Internet filtering. On the one hand, government attorneys vigorously […]