a blog about computer history by Sinclair Target. It is intended primarily for computer people. addresses questions like Where did JSON come from? and Why are man pages still a thing?
Breaking Smart is a site devoted to in-depth explorations of the emerging digital economy, resulting patterns of societal transformation, and technological serendipity. Our goal is to produce a binge-worthy collection of essays on a single big theme, along with workshop material, approximately once a year. Season 1 is based on Marc Andreessen’s observation that “software is eating the world.”
The Ghost Map, : Everything Bad Is Good for You, Mind Wide Open : Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life, Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software, Interface Culture : How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create a
Buddhist Geeks is a weekly audio show that presents ground-breaking interviews and discussions with Buddhist teachers, scholars, and advanced practitioners. Combining ancient wisdom with modern technology
TechWeb Digital Library, one of the largest and most comprehensive multimedia resources targeting the business technology market. Here you will find thousands of white papers, case studies, webcasts, and research reports providing the in-depth market cove
popurls is the dashboard for the latest web-buzz, a single page that encapsulates up-to-the-minute headlines from the most popular sites on the internet.
ELI (EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative). concise information on emerging learning technologies and related practices. Each brief focuses on a single technology or practice
Director: Edward W. Felten. The Center is sponsored by the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Promotes an informed public discussion of digital technologies. addresses digital technologies as they interact with policy, markets and society.
A workshop by Princeton University`s Center for Information Technology Policy invites academics, publishers, journalists, bloggers, and information technology researchers to compare notes on how the Internet is transforming the news media.
founder of LibriVox.org, an all-volunteer project to make free public domain audiobooks. writes for the Huffinton Post about digital media and publishing, co-editor of datalibre.ca, and the President of the Board of Directors of the Atwater Library
a free monthly e-mail newsletter from security expert Bruce Schneier. Each issue is filled with interesting commentary, pointed critique, and serious debate about security.
We live in a software culture - that is, a culture where the production, distribution, and reception of most content - and increasingly, experiences - is mediated by software. And yet, most creative professionals do not know anything about the intellectual history of software they use daily - be it Photoshop, GIMP, Final Cut, After Effects, Blender, Flash, Maya, or MAX.
business-to-business nexus of content, technology and business. the ContentAgenda.com community is comprised of leading executives from the media and entertainment, hardware, technology, government and policy making, financial and retail communities. Designed to be the one-stop source for the most up-to-date conversation and news, ContentAgenda.com features a comprehensive, global compendium of news reports on the home/personal entertainment industry powered by LexisNexis, the leading name in the information aggregation business, as well as user-configurable newsletters, RSS feeds, and whitepaper brokerage.
iSolon.org is a policy institute committed to exploring and advancing opportunities for democratic reform brought about by new information technologies. It focuses on the most difficult areas of democratic reform─where elected officials have a conflict of interest in bringing about reforms that might reduce their own power. Home of Citizens Assembly News Digest.
iSolon.org's Citizens Assembly Project also reports on citizens assembly developments throughout the world. Reporting on such developments is a joint project with iSolon.org's readers. iSolon.org carefully monitors the print press and blogosphere for reports on citizen assemblies, but it also gets much of its most valuable information from its readers.
Have a story you want to share about the role of technology in your life? Want to rant about a particularly unfair policy at your school surrounding internet use? Want to share your favorite new technological tool with us? Related to the book Born Digital and the initiative of the Digital Natives project, an interdisciplinary collaboration of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the Research Center for Information Law at the University of St. Gallen.
The Digital Natives project is a collaboration between the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and the Research Center for Information Law at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
The first Media in Transition conference was held in 1999 and marked the launch of the MIT graduate program in Comparative Media Studies. Since then, four bi-annual conferences have been held
ACM has a new Web site to complement its flagship print publication Communications of the ACM. The Web site offers exclusive news, opinion, research, information, extensive content from the current issue of Communications, the complete archived issues of the publication, access to searchable content from the ACM Digital Library and from other sources around the Web, and hosts a blog section.
CrunchBase is the free database of technology companies, people, and investors that anyone can edit. Here, you can learn and edit everything about companies like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, MySpace and Tagged, products like Droid and Google Wave, and people like Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs.
TechCrunch was founded on June 11, 2005, as a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies. In addition to covering new companies, we profile existing companies that are making an impact (commercial and/or cultural) on the new web space. TechCrunch has now grown into a network of technology focused sites offering a wide range of content and new media.
Techmeme arranges links from must-read stories in technology from hundreds of news sites and blogs into a single, easy-to-scan page. Story selection is accomplished via computer algorithm extended with direct human editorial input. Our goal is for Techmeme to become your tech news site of record.
A national survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that with technology allowing nearly 24-hour media access as children and teens go about their daily lives, the amount of time young people spend with entertainment media has risen dramatically, especially among minority youth. Today, 8-18 year-olds devote an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes (7:38) to using entertainment media across a typical day (more than 53 hours a week). And because they spend so much of that time 'media multitasking' (using more than one medium at a time), they actually manage to pack a total of 10 hours and 45 minutes (10:45) worth of media content into those 7½ hours.
The Science and Civilisation in China series is the work of Joseph Needham and an international team of collaborators, and is published by Cambridge University Press in seven volumes.
the largest continuing study of the role of information technology in American higher education. The project's national studies draw on qualitative and quantitative data to help inform faculty, campus administrators, and others interested in the use of information technology in American colleges and universities.