Group items tagged

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

The digital age is destroying us by ruining our ability to concentrate.

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:

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.