technology: usage and abusage. By WSJ columnist Jeremy Wagstaff
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Some interesting discussions about whether laptops should be allowed in class or meetings. This from Cybernetnews (via Steve Rubel's shared Google Reader feed): At the start of my last semester of school, I was taken back when I read the...
Read Laptops Aren't the Problem: The Meetings Are (Links)
I've been looking recently at different ways that newspapers can add value to the news they produce, and one of them is using technology to better mine the information that's available to bring out themes and nuances that might otherwise...
Read Counting the Words (Links)
The annoying thing with social media is that you can't really control it. If you insist on having a section listing the most-read stories, say, you can't really fiddle with it without making it pretty meaningless. The English-language version of...
Read People's Daily Most Read: Tibet (Links)
The Japanese arm of antivirus vendor Trend Micro has announced its website had been hacked and its pages modified to service up viruses. In other words, if someone had visited their website chances are they'd have picked up a virus....
Read Anti-virus Vendor, Er, Hacked. Serves Up, Er, Viruses (Links)
Peter Shankman recently told the story of how lazy/dumb/thoughtless PR types can be when he forwards a journalist request and gets mostly lame and irrelevant replies. His conclusion: Is this what the agencies are teaching their employees to do? If...
Read Why Reporters Hate PR Professionals (Links)
Jan Chipchase, roving Nokia researcher, as ever inspires and provokes with this piece on the psychology of the coffee cup: This Akasaka coffee shop includes a row of accessible power sockets (running a long the edge of the window) primarily...
Read Power to the Consumer. (Is That All?) (Links)
Here's a very cool way to mix technology and environmental stuff, via the Google Earth Blog. (Interest declared: It's part of the NEWtrees project, the brainchild of my publisher and friend Mark Hanusz): The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) offers you...
Read Reforestation, Google Earth Style (Links)
Here's a piece I wrote for the WSJ on open source education resources. It's part of the free section of WSJ.com. A revolution of sorts is sweeping education. In the past few years, educational material, from handwritten lecture notes to...
Read Learning in the Open (Links)
From EastSouthWestNorth Rebecca Mackinnon of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre in Hong Kong does a great job of looking at how Chinese are increasingly skeptical of Western news agencies' perceived bias about what has happened in Tibet: Hopefully most...
Read Tibet and the Information War (Links)
It's interesting to watch how quickly our Web 2.0 tools are changing, changing us, changing the way we communicate, and being changed by us. And how each step feels like a revolution, and yet, usually, isn't. The latest thing is...
Read The Revolution That Keeps, Well, Revolving (Links)
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