Excellent documentary on direct participation in government through new communication technologies. Can we all govern or is the very notion simply absurd?
In this article the Harvard Press acknowledges the changing nature of publishing, in regard to different audiences and the pace of technological development, revealing how they will release articles, journals and magazines in different formats, with a growing focus on digital mediums.
Google and IBM to donate computing wares to universities with the "hope of training a new breed of engineers and scientists to think in Internet scale".
Nielsen releases the new figure which shows that Australians spent 1.6 million hours on social media sites in June this year.
In the U.S.A, MySpace lost half of its maket share while its share has beed doubled in Australia
Google wants to make e-books available to all devices with web browsers, from mobile phones to desktop computers, challenging Amazon's Kindle e-book reader which forces buyers to buy books through the company
Saatchi and Saatchi suggest that the changes brought about by technology and the 'new' business model is merely structured to serve "the twin gods of the publishing world", namely advertisers and consumers, and as a result traditional 'media' are going to lose out.
Open-source softwares and social networking allow anyone anywhere to share and create contents online. People on longer need printed press such as newspaper, magazine as the cultural gatekeeper.
In the 15th century Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing process. This new technology changed the world forever. One specific task was made incredibly easy - the spreading of written words. eBooks take us to the threshold of a possible shift in the way we read books.
As widely expected, Barnes & Noble unveiled its Nook electronic reading device at a splashy news conference on Tuesday to generally positive views from the publishing community, and offered some details about its whispered-about lending capabilities.
Is the ebook market becoming saturated? As more companies invest in digital technologies, there seems to be growing concern that returns won't be what initially expected.
e-book market is threatened by unfettered proliferation of e-book platforms, formats, and DRMs. Some service providers support multiple e-book platforms and DRMs. They can adopt this type of model, but do publishers agree to support it in their licensing agreements?
Google's latest application Sidewiki is subverting the roles of users and allowing them to partake in the creative process by posting comments in the sidelines of webpages.
THEY may look more like vacuum cleaners with eyes, but Matilda and Jackson are the next generation of nurses and "emotionally intelligent" babysitters.