As a follow-up to my earlier posts about ubiquitous wireless Internet access and the need for a rural Internet initiative, here’s some news from Vermont. In a recent address to […]
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In everyday life, people have what social scientists refer to as “spare cycles” — little moments of free time, that if properly utilized, could represent a huge untapped source of […]
The ISTE SIGAdmin just asked its membership two questions. Here are my answers… 1. How has the Internet changed thinking? The Internet has allowed distributed thinking (and thus learning) to […]
When the late Idi Amin launched a successful coup attempt against the then President of Uganda, Milton Obote, he made sure that the latter was attending Commonwealth Conference, before sending […]
Many schools filter YouTube, Twitter, blogs, wikis, podcasts, social networking, and other content-rich online services for both students and employees. Why on earth would you filter the adults who work […]
Here are two presentations by Dr. Richard Miller, Chair of the English Department at Rutgers University, that are well worth any university instructor’s time to watch. The Future Is Now: […]
The most interesting development in the media world over the past month or so hasn’t been Rupert Murdoch’s foray into 24/7 business news programming. And it certainly hasn’t been NBC […]
The Baby Boomer Generation has had a disproportionate economic and cultural impact on nearly every trend of the past 40 years, so why not the Internet? Of late, there’s been […]
Brooklyn-based Kickstarter enables people to “crowd-fund” new artistic projects (books, movies, films, etc.) and then follow along the progress of the project through regular updates. In my first-ever Kickstarter project, […]
Marc Goodman tells Big Think that in the future “the virtual agents of good and evil will do battle in cyberspace–making this a very interesting field to be in!”
During the past weeks I saw more and more interviews, blog posts and discussions on what the return of investment (ROI) of a college degree is these days. It is […]
Mike Huckabee may not have the same campaign warchest as other, better-known presidential contenders, but he obviously has some pretty smart campaign handlers on board who understand how to optimize […]
Since the birth of mass market advertising, one of the longest standing strategies has been to call a product “all natural.” Today, this key word has been joined by others […]
It’s not that the web is making us less intelligent…it’s that the web may be an enemy of creativity. Which is why Woody Allen might be wise in avoiding it altogether.
The Internet, the European Union, and the Olympics are all signs that, within the next 100 years, mankind will forge a truly planetary civilization.
Well, I’ve really enjoyed this week of guest blogging. As an academic whose professional livelihood requires writing according to lots of strict formatting and content guidelines, I find a lot […]
Google the words ‘baby’ and “owned” and you’ll find a curious phenomenon: many people have put up vids of infants and toddlers getting conked, clobbered, whacked and tripped.
Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society just released a massive report, Enhancing Child Safety and Online Technologies. Here’s a quote from the study: Sexual solicitation and predation are […]
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. […]
If the hunt for the God Particle really is over, what does that mean for physics and, more importantly, for you?
Happy Valentine’s Day!Cards, candy and…connecting online? Older adults are among the fastest growing age group meeting and matching digitally.Worldwide more older adults are finding love online. Match.com reports that 22%of its […]
After a flurry of recent deals over the past month involving Google, Microsoft and WPP Group, it is no longer clear which companies are at the top of the digital […]
Similar to the way Google crawls the Internet, scientists have mapped a three-dimensional circuit of connected cells in the cerebral cortex, allowing them to navigate the mind’s jungle.
From bicycles to radios to internet connections, technologies of various kinds are part of what constitutes a more developed lifestyle even in places where incomes continue to hover at $1 or $2 per day.
We all have technologies that are absolutely essential to our day-to-day lives. Here is a baker’s dozen of mine… Google Reader. It took me a while, but I’ve now organized all […]
When should competitors work together? Only through greater transparency and sharing can Google and Bing collectively create a better Internet, says Microsoft’s Harry Shum.
Here’s a quote I ran across today from Lawrence Lessig (whom I heard speak for a few minutes in July!): n n [W]hile the Internet has indeed produced something fantastic […]
The use of a graphing calculator is considered an integral part of the AP Calculus course, and is permissible on parts of the AP Calculus Exams. Students should use this […]
The New York Timesreports today on a study of MySpace users from the United Kingdom. Here is a quote from the article: The MySpace study asked social networking users between […]
A fairly disturbing chain e-mail (it mentions rape, murder, and skin flaying) is making the rounds among a group of elementary school girls here. [click here to read it] A few […]