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Paul Ryan

Reviews: 'The digital spectrum' by Andrew Keen | Prospect Magazine May 2008 issue 146 - 0 views

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    Is the web 2.0 revolution making us more co-operative, or is it turning us into vulgar narcissists who can't relate to one another? Three recent books offer differing views of what technology is doing to our humanity Andrew Keen
Paul Ryan

Stoooopid .... why the Google generation isn't as smart as it thinks - Times Online - 0 views

  • But the damage is not caused by overwork, it’s caused by multiple distracted work. One American study found that interruptions take up 2.1 hours of the average knowledge worker’s day. This, it was estimated, cost the US economy $588 billion a year. Yet the rabidly multitasking distractee is seen as some kind of social and economic ideal.
  • “The next generation will not grieve because they will not know what they have lost,” says Bill McKibben, the great environmentalist.
  • “I feel that much of my life is ebbing away in the tide of minute-by-minute distraction . . . I’m not certain what the effect on the world will be. But psychologists do say that intense close engagement with things does provide the most human satisfaction.” The psychologists are right. McKibben describes himself as “loving novelty” and yet “craving depth”, the contemporary predicament in a nutshell.
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    The digital age is destroying us by ruining our ability to concentrate.
Paul Ryan

MediaShift Idea Lab . Ten Things Journalists Should Know About Surviving In a High-Tech... - 0 views

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    Journalism is becoming a high tech industry, and that means that career norms for journalists are approaching those of high tech workers -- shorter job tenures, working for smaller companies, and much more. Here are ten things that can help journalists survive Web 2.0 with their sanity intact:
Paul Ryan

Six Months In, And 600 Posts Later . . . The Worlds Of Blogging and Journalism Collide ... - 0 views

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    The journalist in me has been avoiding this post (too navel-gazing, too self-absorbed), but the blogger in me can't help it. Media is changing-how it is produced and how it is consumed. The worlds of blogging and journalism are colliding and I want to get some thoughts down on this transition before I forget what the old world was like or feel too comfortable in the new one.
Paul Ryan

Truth first casualty of the internet? - web - Technology - theage.com.au - 0 views

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    More people are tuning into what bloggers have to say, but should we trust them? Darren Levin reports.
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    More people are tuning into what bloggers have to say, but should we trust them? Darren Levin reports.
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    More people are tuning into what bloggers have to say, but should we trust them? Darren Levin reports.
Paul Ryan

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The cloud's Chrome lining - 0 views

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    Google is motivated by something much larger than its congenital hatred of Microsoft. It knows that its future, both as a business and as an idea (and Google's always been both), hinges on the continued rapid expansion of the usefulness of the Internet, which in turn hinges on the continued rapid expansion of the capabilities of web apps, which in turn hinges on rapid improvements in the workings of web browsers.
Paul Ryan

Why the media is on the move - BizTech - Technology - theage.com.au - 0 views

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    Mobile phones are changing the future of news, reports Stephen Quinn.
Paul Ryan

Great Photo on Flickr? Getty Images Might Pay You For It - Bits - Technology - New York... - 0 views

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    If you are a photographer with high-quality images posted on Yahoo's Flickr service, you may soon get an e-mail inviting you to become a paid contributor to Getty Images, the world's largest distributor of pictures and video.
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