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Possible generation-gap-type issues for digital educational publishing for colleges: "Today, the college assumes all students not only have computer skills but a plethora of high-tech devices and services. The class schedule and registration procedure is entirely online-even if you're in the registrar's office....In the first class, the professor handed out her e-mail address and the URL where the syllabus could be found--instead of her office phone number and a copy of the syllabus. Unfortunately, the college sites are full of graphics and animations and download very slowly on my dial-up connection. (Even if I could afford a broadband connection, my ISP doesn't provide it in my area.)" "At least one exercise in each chapter requires accessing the publisher's textbook Web site. Many of these exercises could just as easily be put on the computer disk also sold-at an increased profit (I used to work for a textbook-preparation company)-with the text....Again, a dial-up connection won't download the videos. The audio files are .mp3; I can't open them, don't have the skill to know what program I need, and have no access to free technical support....So once every chapter I head for either the heavily used public library or the equally heavily used computer lab in the college's suburban learning center (branch campus)--and hope that a computer is available."

Long before anyone had heard of the Internet, early home computer users could read their morning newspapers online ... sort of. Steve Newman's 1981 story was...

The future was NOW! Brought to you by Rob Arthur---owns home computer.

This is classic! I like the "electronic journalism" term that was used to describe their methods. If only the journalism industry knew what was coming . . . the guy saying "we're not in it to make much money" -* the newspaper delivery guy "not worried about losing his job" shakes my head*. Oh, and I own a home computer too - lol.

Get ready for the coming battles over cloud computing and privacy and security

Article looks at three separate studies of the educational benefit of home computers for lower income children. The studies indicate that the educational value of universal broadband access may be minimal, or worse, harmful.

Insuring that cloud computing doesn' lead to a loss of privacy and the ability to innovate.

Photoshop Etiquette, Cloud Computing, Understanding Google PageRank and more..

Never really heard of this until I saw the topic listing for our assignment. But the theory behind sounds great. The implementation so far, not so much.

Technology research firm IDC makes forecasts for 2010. Also, a look at Apples new touchscreen tablet computer, or iPad, that will have an 8-10inch screen. The iPad will be ideal for watching movies, surfing the Web, playing games, and reading books. It will be general-purpose, unlike Amazon's single-pupose Kindle reader and may give the Kindle a run for its money.

Barnes & Noble will offer an e-book reader application for Apple's new iPad tablet computer, providing access to the electronic books it sells. " />

A laundry list of open questions about Apple's iPad isn't keeping magazine publishers and advertisers from lining up for the launch of the tablet computer next week." />

The future of e-publishing? It's impressive how sophisticated this technology has become.

With its acquisition of ReCaptcha, Google will use "human computation" to help scan old library books.

Gabe Rivera, founder of news aggregator Techmeme. Credit: Mark Milian/Los Angeles Times.Don't tell News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch, but technology news aggregator Techmeme is raking in profits. Rather than visiting the front pages of every newspaper or choosing a few out of brand loyalty, as Murdoch hopes consumers will do, aggregators put all of the Web's big headlines of the moment onto one page. There's no shortage in news aggregation. General news readers might go to Google News, a computer-generated engine that pulls in more than 25,000 newspaper websites and authoritative blogs. Left-leaning political consumers might visit the Huffington Post; right-leaning...

Don't let the math stop you from reading this story about the role of web-mediated collaboration. This is Gutenberg 2.0.