Wednesday, February 24, 2010
In the ten years since 2000, things changed rapidly in the technology field. We get used to them day by day, adopt changes and never look back. When you do take a moment to look back, you realize how much really has changed in the last 10 years. I wrote this as part of BlogHer’s [...]
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
The New York Times has a story on Textbooks That Professors Can Rewrite Digitally.
Macmillan, one of the five largest publishers of trade books and textbooks, is introducing software called DynamicBooks, which will allow college instructors to edit digital editions of textbooks and customize them for their individual classes.
I’ve had many a textbook that I modified [...]
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Why the iPad (and kin) is Unlikely to Yield Consumer Savings at Wired Pen puts pen and paper to the math involved in digital distribution of news by media companies trying to transition from print.
Group Interview: Expert Advice for Students and Young Web Designers at Smashing Magazine was eye opening. And annoying. For one thing, [...]
Thursday, January 21, 2010
One of the scarier facts about online life is that privacy requires constant vigilance. There are ways to look at your purchases, your remarks, your friends list, and your other public data and learn a truly astonishing array of things about you.
Privacy on Facebook has been in the news recently. Perhaps I should say privacy [...]
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
I’m a stand-in for Ronni Bennett from Time Goes By in the Fem 2.0 Wake Up Campaign on work/life blog radio series. The program where I’ll be representing the elder blogger community is “Work/Life and Older Americans: Taking Care of Oneself & Others.” The discussion airs on Feb. 2 at Talk Shoe. Luckily, I’ll be [...]
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Transcripts on the Web: Getting people to your podcasts and videos at uiAccess provides valuable resources for creating transcripts of audio and video.
My (current) opinions on HTML5 from Dori Smith is a reflection on the writhing mass of eels known as HTML5 and what has happened in that arena in the last few days. Dori [...]
Evan Osnos’ Dispatches from China in The New Yorker include “Q. and A.: Google and China.”
Google China Employees Given Holiday Leave, Networks Being Scrutinized is by Robin Wauters at TechCrunch.
At Bloomberg News, China’s response to Google is reported in China Says Internet Firms Abiding by Its Laws Welcome (Update1)
Related Posts: Framing the Google Disagreement with [...]
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
After three years in China, during which Google accepted the Chinese government’s demands for censored search, Google is changing its position. Yesterday on the official Google Blog in “A New Approach to China.”
We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks [...]
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
The search for information was explored from two ends of the age spectrum in “Helping Children Find What they Need on the Internet” at The New York Times and “Where’s my Googlebox?!” – adventures in search for silver surfers at iheni :: making the web worldwide.
The Google research reported on in the NYT focused on [...]
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