Communicating in a networked world
Have you ever noticed that sometimes when you are described as a geek it’s not exactly a compliment? (I always mean it as a compliment, comeon!) That’s because people don’t fully understand the words nerd, dork, dweeb and geek. Here’s the explanation … [Continue reading]
Here’s a novel way of looking at how we (maybe) fit into the future of publishing—Dorling Kindersley Books did a video about The Future of Publishing, initially for internal consumption, but later on they released it on YouTube. As Cory Doctorow said … [Continue reading]
On March 10 (2009) Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, was quoted in the Wall Street Journal as saying "something will happen soon" with respect to their presence in China. China today warned that Google must operate within their laws. —the U.S. Internet … [Continue reading]
Throw away the image of an “army of Chinese hackers” goose-stepping in straight ranks and hell-bent on hacking anyone who stands in their way. Instead, substitute an image more like the wild, wild West with gunslingers taking the law into their own … [Continue reading]
Howard Rheingold has a series of videos describing how journalists (particularly) can use online tools to create their own radars (seek out information), filters (remove the crap), and dashboards (display the information). You can see lots of other … [Continue reading]