Category Archives: futureOn Oct. 28, the 100-year-old Christian Science Monitor sent shockwaves through the news business when it announced that in April 2009 it will switch from daily to weekly print publication, and invest more resources in its online operations. (Poynter coverage by Rick Edmonds.)
This set some pretty interesting context for the Future of Journalism panel discussion [...]
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!
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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