Posts Tagged ‘internet’
5 to Follow: Tourist Attractions
Nashville is Music City USA. Visitors come here to hang out in the honky-tonks, listen to the buskers on Lower Broadway and cruise around Music Row looking for their favorite singers. (Country music superstars don’t live on Music Row, but let’s not tell the tourists; why spoil their fun?) But once the out-of-towners get here, [...]
Random Hacks of Kindness
Thousands of hackers have recently been working together for a huge hacking session over 19 cities. Random Hacks of Kindness has chosen three as the most outstanding applications.
Search: Online “Filter Bubbles”
As Internet companies attempt to personalize their services to each user, there is an unintended result: we view an edited down version of reality that colors the world that we see. Eli Pariser discusses this in his latest TED talk that you can watch here.
Disconnect to Connect
Today I read a great blog post written by Richard Watson, the publisher of What's Next (a website that documents global trends) and co-founder of Strategy Insight (a specialist scenario planning consultancy). The blog's title, Why Doing Nothing is Often Better Than Doing Something, grabbed my attention. What Watson found was that he felt overwhelmed with too much information. He was drowning in the details of life and was missing the boat on being an innovative, creative deep-thinker.
Advocating for Net Neutrality (Part 1 of 3)
I remember being in my Mass Communications and Society class giving a speech on net neutrality and trying to persuade my classmates to join the coalition for a free Internet. At that time it was something that I was passionate about, but as I looked at the blank stares across the rows of students, I came to realize that most didn't even know what net neutrality was at that time.
Link Wars
I think about the links in articles on the Web, especially when I'm blogging. I purposefully put links in my writing and put them in for a reason. When I'm reading content, I click on a headline to read an article, then I am sent to another source of information, and maybe even another story. I may never make it back to the original content that I intended to read.
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