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Are cities the best place to live? Are suburbs OK? A fight grows in urban planning, with Harvard at the center.

There are certain aspects of economic life, such as expensive hotel internet connections, which can only be explained when we grapple with the bounded nature of our brain.

At the Second Life Community Convention in Chicago over the weekend, participants debated the changing business landscape within Second Life. As ABC News points out in its coverage of the […]

Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal recently named the winners of the 2007 Technology Innovation awards in a number of different categories, including the environment, medical devices, semiconductors and […]

n nOne reason for the vibrancy of American innovation is the proliferation of “third places” – places like the corner coffee lounge – where freelance workers and mobile digerati can […]

I have two favorite quotes from Pamela Livingston’s excellent book, 1-to-1 Learning: Laptop Programs That Work. Here’s the first one: If it takes 40 minutes for an environmental science class […]

On page 52 of Free: The Future of a Radical Price, Chris Anderson notes: Products that can become commoditized and cheap tend to do so, and companies seeking profits move […]

I received this message recently from a school administrator: Our district is looking at building a new high school or middle school in the near future. I would appreciate your […]

All Americans, not just those in senior governmental positions, could benefit from having the option to watch Al Jazeera English—or at least having the option not to watch it.

Since you’re reading it on the Internet—in a blog, no less—it just might be. This week Big Think sits down with journalist Nicholas Carr, author of the infamous 2008 Atlantic […]

While many people predicted during the frenzy of the dot-com bubble that the rise of the Internet would mean the “end of geography”, that hasn’t happened.

Pundits aren’t solely to blame for the vitriol. They’re just giving us what we want. To change our discourse we have to be masters, not slaves, to the cycle.

Here’s an artice that explains well why Congress should get the national government out of the radio and TV business.  A taste: NPR’s defenders would respond indignantly to this argument by […]

Here is Part 1 of my notes from our day with Will Richardson. You also can see the live chat and/or follow the Twitter conversation and/or participate in EtherPad. I’m […]

Small companies can now deploy technology that was previously reserved for large organizations so that nearly any employee can now work from anywhere.

In the quest to being the first or fastest to get out of a free-falling share in the stock market, financial model formulas  are programmed into computers  by investors great […]

The debate over net neutrality is reaching a new phase, says Matt Warman. One that depends on defining the nature of the Internet: is it a simple utility or is privileged access allowed?

Eyewitness accounts and twitter messages on the ground in Japan reveal rising desperation and frustration with the media. 

In the weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal (sub req), Robert Litan, Vice-President of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, weighed in with an op-ed piece on […]

At the upcoming Cebit technology event in Germany, Russia is officially advertising itself as the “Innovation Nation.” It’s basically an attempt by Russian government officials to highlight the nation’s wealth […]

On Monday, Wal-Mart announced plans to sell Skype products (handsets, Webcams, headsets and other equipment) in more than 1,800 of its stores — proving once again that there are two […]

Investors disappointed with Yahoo’s performance vis-a-vis Google over the past 24 months have been clamoring for the scalp of Yahoo! CEO Terry Semel, and now they finally have it: “Yahoo!, […]

I recently had the conversation below with a high school science teacher (and, yes, I did it respectfully for those of you who are wondering)… Teacher I want my students […]

A reading teacher contacted me: As the school’s remedial reading teacher I was asked to research a reading program for an extraordinarily bright 5th grader. Do you have any suggestions? […]

Neither Todd Seal nor Dan Meyer agree with my assertion that teachers should be able to identify at least 10 good web sites for their classes. Todd says: I’m typically looking […]

Senators Grassley and Harkin, I am writing to you as a citizen of Iowa. Senate Bill 3325, The Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act of 2008, recently was introduced in […]

Here are my notes from Day 2 of the World Technology Summit. I’ve been hangin’ with Dr. John Nash, my colleague at ISU. Today we learned about India’s Barefoot College […]

Spiegel says that it’s only if companies are more generous in their interpretation of fundamental rights that the Internet can continue to function as a public space.

Some lessons in media literacy are more painful than others. Listen up, kids. Despite what you read in the papers, you cannot get high on bath salts or plant food. […]

It’s no longer enough just to have a Big Idea. Now you need to have a Big Idea about how to spread that Big Idea.