This is a really excellent article entitled In the World of Facebook from the NYRB on the history Facebook and possible implications of Facebook Connect and their advertising processes. Directly related to the interpersonal time and energy we invest into sites like Facebook is an article from ..
Maria Bustillos has a piece published as In Praise of High-Speed Overload over at The Awl.It bears some thinking about. I am not sure that I agree 110% but it does beat the standard sort of whining that the Web(s) have destroyed all knowledge. I think the implication of knowledge as the antidote ..
Came across this article Out of Auschwitz this morning. Mr. Pisar, the author, writes that"Today, the last living survivors of the Holocaust are disappearing one by one. Soon, history will speak about Auschwitz with the impersonal voice of researchers and novelists at best, and at worst in ..
Today I got to play with the Nook which is B&N's e-reader. I know that a bunch of other people have posted stuff on this but I finally actually got to touch these technologies myself and would like to talk about it.So the Nook first:The Nook has a bottom screen which used like the touch pad for ..
This short article from NYRblog is a nice take on the virtues of virtual egalitarianism. While there's not anything in here that is necessarily brand new, it ties in nicely to some other reading/thinking I've been doing on learning and education. "To be human is to engage in relationships with ..