Category Archives: Trends
Is the Internet Changing Your Brain?
The Internet is not just changing the world we live in, it’s also changing the way our brains function. For example by regularly searching online you’re improving your brain’s ability to filter information and make snap decisions. It might also … Continue reading
YouTube plans to show full-length movies
Two years after they paid $1.65bn for YouTube, Google are trying to find ways for it to make money. The latest idea is to offer full-length feature films in the next “30 to 90 days”, according to CNET. Having recently … Continue reading
Politics and the changing media landscape
This article in yesterday’s New York Times assesses how this year’s election has profoundly and irrevocably changed the nature of political campaigning: Campaigns in a Web 2.0 World
Web 2.0 Expo In Berlin
Luis Suarez from IBM provides some highlights from last week’s Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin using a smart gadget for showing decks called Slideshare. http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/elsua/web-20-expo-in-berlin-day-1-highlights-27970
Information R/evolution
This is a follow-up to Michael Wesch’s enormously popular The Machine is Us/ing Us. It explores the ways in which we find, store, create, critique, and share information.
