Nicholas Carr has an interesting article on The Atlantic.com site called “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Carr laments that he is no longer able to read a lengthy book without getting a serious case of the fidgets. Aside from other mediating factors, like age, how busy life is, and if... read more →
Jun
11
May
30
This week was the Gilder-Forbes Telecosm Conference, full of tech-types, entrepreneurs, physicists, inventors, investors, and the generally curious. It is an interesting and intellectual challenging group with inventors and innovators like physicist Carver Mead whose pioneering work led to microchips and a dozen other things we take for granted on... read more →
May
26
Two things came across my RSS feeds today that show how technology is impacting our information environment. First, YouTube has added a News Manager to promote Citizen News content. Meet Olivia: Second was a blog entry by CNET's Dan Farber on Twitter as a viable means of spreading information. I... read more →
May
10
A couple of weeks ago when I was at the Broadcast Educators festival in Las Vegas, I was struck by the words people use to talk about new media. Words like: inundated, overwhelmed, deluged, complex, confusing, and potentially dangerous. It struck me that many of us are trapped in our... read more →
May
10
A couple of weeks ago when I was at the Broadcast Educators festival in Las Vegas, I was struck by the words people use to talk about new media. Words like: inundated, overwhelmed, deluged, complex, confusing, and potentially dangerous. It struck me that many of us are trapped in our... read more →