Earlier in the spring, while attending the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) NetGain conference, I was asked to answer a question as part of a series for the SIIA Content Division. As the result of sheer coincidence, Chris Anderson was a keynote at the conference and was also asked the same question. Several people were… Read More
Image via CrunchBase As many of you know, there has been an interesting and spirited debate going on around Chris Anderson's (pictured) new book Free: The Future of a Radical Price, Malcolm Gladwell's review of that book, and Seth Godin's rebuttal to Gladwell's review. Those arguments speak for themselves and you can see them on… Read More
Kent Anderson from the Scholarly Kitchen linked to this Clay Shirky video filmed at the State Department by TED. It's 17:03 minutes of insight! "What matters here isn't technological capital, it's social capital. These tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring…when everybody is able to take them for granted." "They had understood… Read More
Whether to provide a more vibrant and relevant educational experience or to save money on text books, it looks like online education is making some headway. Connecticut District Tosses Algebra Textbooks and Goes Online, that's what I read last week in the New York Times . Connecticut teachers were frustrated by rushing students "through their… Read More
Image by mindseyeimagery via Flickr The other day I got a LinkedIn group alert from Andrew Spong linking to an article in The Journal of Electronic Publishing entitled Open Access 2.0: Access to Scholarly Publications Moves to a New Phase, by Joseph J. Esposito. His "Nautilus Model of Scholarly Communications" was a brilliant way to… Read More
Take a look at this video created by Mark Logic. It’s a fabulous summary of where we’ve been and the challenges and opportunities facing us in media and publishing.… Read More
Image via CrunchBase A couple of months ago, someone to whom I'm connected on Facebook mentioned that I over ran their home page with Twitter updates the last time I was at a conference. I tend to take conference notes on Twitter. When I had Twitter feed Facebook updates, my status was being updated… Read More
I’ve wanted to learn Spanish most of my life, but I’ve never gotten passed a couple of classes in high school and college. I tried again a few years ago. Even after spending a few hundred dollars on Rosetta Stone, I stopped using it after a couple of weeks. That’s about to change thanks to… Read More