There has been a lot of hubub recently about the article “Is Google making us stupid?” by Nicholas Carr. It was in the most recent issue of The Atlantic. The basic gist of the article is that because we’re reading so much information online, we can’t comprehend lengthy articles anymore and thus it’s [...]
Recently, libraries have started to add Google Book search results to their catalog. This is a good thing, in my opinion. I’m not going to get into the copyright debate on whether Google should be scanning books that are not in the public domain. I am, however, going to suggest that the [...]
Google has an interesting partnership with Nanaimo, a city of 78,000 people in British Columbia. Nanaimo has given Google a lot of information about their fair city including info on its buildings, property lines, utilities and streets that can be accessed with Google Earth. Further,
“The site sorts and maps every business, from restaurants [...]
Have you ever Googled yourself? I have. The Pew Internet & American Life’s report “Digital Footprints: Online Identity Management and Search in the Age of Transparency” (Link to the PDF) provides an interesting insight into the topic of an online identity. To be honest, since the report is 50 pages, I didn’t [...]
Are experts really making a comeback on the web? Is the “cult of the amateur” a thing of the past? The Newsweek article “Revenge of the Experts” by Tony Dokupil seems to suggest that the new Web 2.0 will be focused on experts who write, for pay, online content. This got [...]
