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Mobile Phone Wishful Thinking

April 13, 2008 – 6:08 pm

OK, this isn’t my personal idea of cell phone nirvana, but I love it when designers start fantasizing…

Thanks to TechGRL for the tip!

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in design, fun stuff, mobile, video | Comments (0)

Newspaper Biz: Evolution Isn’t the End of the World

February 7, 2008 – 10:36 am

Rob Lee, via Flickr (CC license)

Some ways of approaching what looks like the end of the world are more constructive than others.

(NOTE: I originally wrote this for Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits. I’m cross-posting it here because I think it might also interest Contentious readers.)
This morning I read in the New York Times a cold litany of [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Strategy, business, careers, collaboration, journalism, media evolution, solutions | Comments (0)

One Laptop Per Child: Why Media Folks Should Care

September 27, 2007 – 8:28 am

Laptop.org

Don’t know what to do with a computer that looks like this? Don’t worry — you’re not the target market.

Lately I’ve been learning more about, and getting quite intrigued by, the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program. Yesterday I listened to an IT Conversations podcast talk by Michael Evans, VP of corporate development for Redhat, [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in collaboration, culture, education, problems, projects, skills, society, world | Comments (4)

Web 3.0: Patchwork Quilt of Viral Online Applications, Says Google CEO

August 15, 2007 – 10:53 am

OK, excuse me for delving into buzzwords here, but this is actually potentially important. Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently spoke at the Seoul Digital Forum. Someone asked him about what his vision of “Web 3.0″ might be. Here’s his reply:

The bottom line is that he predicts the software we use will not be something packaged [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Net Effects on Society, media evolution, tools | Comments (0)