What's the Use of Online Social Networks In Your Life?

Most people nowadays have online social networks. While browsing the net, I saw this diagram of what a social network means to us. But suddenly, my mind asked a burning question..what do you call that region where all of them intersect? "This is the diagram of a normal and...

SXSW 2009 Interactive: Web Nerds Are Cooler Than You

The thing about web nerds is that they love having the opportunity to prove to the world that they are infinitely 'cooler' than you might think. But, no, it's not enough for them to lounge around the hallways of the...

Are We Over-Stimulating The US Economy?

I believe that we are where we are because governments around the world have been over-stimulating their economies since the late Eighties. Every time it has come time to pay the piper, we have put off the day of reckoning by literally printing more money.I’m going to spend...

Damming the Open Stream: Net Neutrality vs Corporate Greed

Sir Francis Bacon once wrote scientia potentia est: "knowledge is power." Undoubtedly a large part of our common knowledge today is broadcast and downloaded by users of the internet and the World Wide Web. When equipped with our computers and ever-expanding artillery of...

Top 11 'Top 10' Science & Tech Lists + Predictions From 2008

My picks for 2008: Top 11 People and lists reporting on and/or predicting breakthroughs in Science and Technology. You’ll notice I cheated a lot; but, I still left a LOT of stuff out:  1) Jan-Dec 2008...

Current TV, Wired, and Six Apart Slash Jobs

Although mainstream media across America are feeling the negative force of the current financial crisis -- note Conde Nast's employee and publication hachet job last week -- so too are their counterparts in the...

10 things we can learn from Facebook

Excellent Facebook analysis from Susan Mernit.  Very solid read.  Worth thinking long and hard about. "Okay, so for the digerati, Facebook, pownce, twitter and many more are the flavors of the moment....

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