technology
“Wow,” about sums it up. I don’t think anyone predicted these features. This thing is so far ahead of everything else on the market. The iPhone:
Just look at that UI!
The first in a series of “Internet Attitudes” polls by Zogby’s has been released.
Highlights from boingboing:
# Twenty-one percent believe that “next Bill Gates” will come from the United States while 13 percent believe he or she will come from India.
# (…) 83 percent — believe that a typical 12-year-old knows more about the Internet than […]
The New York Times Magazine highlights the top ideas of 2006:
This month, as in the past five Decembers, the magazine looks back on the passing year from a distinctive vantage point: that of ideas. Our editors and writers have located the peaks and valleys of ingenuity — the human cognitive faculty deployed with intentions good […]
From the Weekend section in the Wall Street Journal:
As hand-held email devices proliferate, they are having an unexpected impact on family dynamics: Parents and their children are swapping roles. Like a bunch of teenagers, some parents are routinely lying to their kids, sneaking around the house to covertly check their emails and disobeying house rules […]
I stumbled upon this earlier in the week, and it’s absolutely amazing. Even if something like this is monetized, there is no way that traditional broadcast television could compete with the choice and quality that Internet distribution offers. Democracy Player is a wonderful piece of cross-platform software. More from lifehacker:
Ever since we […]
New research highlights youth attitudes towards text messaging:
College and high-school students find telephone calls unfulfilling and e-mail messages a bit cold. But they view text messaging and instant messaging as comfortable, authentic forms of communication, according to a pair of researchers at San Jose State University.
From the San Francisco Chronicle via the Chronicle of Higher […]
Netvibes, my home page of choice, relaunched late last night with new features and subtle visual tweaks. After using google.com/ig/ for about a year, I’ve been really satisfied with my switch over to netvibes. Multiple content tabs, flickr feeds, gmail/pop3 integration, and tons of other features have made netvibes a great quick source for most […]
More on the ongoing discussion about the future of newspapers in an interesting piece from Time:
I’m not sure what that new form will look like. But it might resemble the better British papers today (such as the one I work for, the Guardian). The Brits have never bought into the American separation of reporting […]
From New Scientist Tech:
The challenge for this generation is to think of sociality as more than the cyber-intimacy of sharing gossip and photographs and profiles. This is a paradoxical time. We have more information but take less time to think it through in its complexity. We’re connecting globally but talking parochially.
Since downloading the new iTunes 7 update, I’ve started browsing through the podcast directory. I stumbled across the BBC’s documentary (4-part podcast) from August, titled “The Communications Revolution:”
Part 1: Communications: Transformation of business and leisure, and the structure of family and society? (mp3)
Part 2: […]
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