Edge: John Brockman: Clay Shirky: Voting Republican
adminI love summer vacation. I get to sit and read stuff I would never "have time for" during regular work. Case in point, the Edge, an online magazine by author…
NY Times: Ambient Awareness, Digital Intimacy
Xeni Jardin at Boing Boing pointed me to this NY Times article Ambient Awareness, the effects of the Facebook and Twitter on culture and psychology. A great read. Combined with…
cck08 about to start
One of the blogs I read (I think it was Robin Good's) sent me to cck08, an open online class in Connectivism. I've been curious about this concept of distributed…
Need a translator? Phone it in.
Jajah, an Internet telecommunications company, and IBM have teamed up to create a service that allows anyone to use a phone to translate between Chinese and English. For free (well,…
The Future of Literature
Penguin Books has commissioned 6 authors to tell 6 digital stories, one each week, for 6 weeks. The last one, and I think what is going to be the best…