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Top ten brains of the digital future « Prospect Magazine
Check out this seriously cool collection of ten outstanding social media infographics. These crème de la crème images have been deemed the best in terms of clever layout, eye-catching design, and of course—the distribution of valuable knowledge.
10 incredible social media infographics - Holy Kaw!
Emergent Culture – The Great Global Awakening has Arrived: Egypt, Revolution and the Drive to Control the Internet
My study of mythology has led me to conclude that all of our great stories are conscious and/or unconscious projections or some combination thereof, of the total human condition as uniquely metaphoralized by each author.
Last year, actor Rainn Wilson surprised us with his insightful and utterly un-Dwightlike thoughts on creativity . As it turns out, Wilson is scholar of human nature and the creative process.
Rainn Wilson's SoulPancake | Brain Pickings
How to inspire people to give their heart-felt vision of a new public space? The city of Montréal needed designs to help inaugurate a public space within the new urban development of the Quartier des Spectacles, generating public interest in the vision and future of the area.
Museum of Possibilities - a set on Flickr
SFA to screen ‘Digital Nation’ | www.thecherokeean.com | Cherokeean Herald
Douglas Rushkoff’s documentary was filmed for PBS’ “Frontline” and first aired February 2010.
World Map Of Social Networks Shows Facebook’s Ever-Increasing Dominance
Robin Wauters is the European Editor of tech blog The Next Web and lead editor of Virtualization.com.
The WELL: State of the World 2011: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky
Bruce Sterling is a science fiction author, journalist, speaker, and citizen of the world, spending much of his time on the road, in Serbia, in Italy, and in the U.S.
Mozilla Drumbeat: Open Web Meets Open Learning | DMLcentral
What if the same energy, ideals, organizational effectiveness, global army of volunteers and code wizardry that created the Firefox web browser could be applied to learning and education?
Book review: Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think? - WSJ.com
In the mid-20th century, the French sociologist Jacques Ellul posed 76 "reasonable questions" that he thought we should ask about any new technology. They included moral questions such as "What values does its use foster?" and "What is lost by using it?""Within the discourse of the body, Tenner is Dr.
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Some of the most commonly censored contents include Pornography, Social Networks, Wikipedia, Wikileaks, Political Blogs, Religious Websites and Video Streaming.
So you still think the internet is free...
All Things Connected | Digital Culture
There are two big shifts happening in culture as we transition to digital – the move from individualism to being viewed as an individual, marketable data point, and the move to becoming a collaborative society. Beyond Tocqueville’s Telescope: The Personalized Brand and the Branded Self, in the Fall 2011 issue of Hedgehog Review (article not available online) got me to thinking about another dynamic occurring as people establish their online identities . Marketing has effectively taken over the data behind the scenes in Social Media with every permission and access given.The Web Is a Customer Service Medium (Ftrain.com)
I sometimes chat with people in the book- and magazine-publishing industries. They complain to me about the web.Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality: Scientific American
I think so. That is why I love this project and its potential. by Dec 5