Does the Internet have any effect on the way we live? Is the Web influencing society, religion, politics, even the way we interact? Are we in danger of losing our humanity or will technology end up enhancing it? We’ll bring you stories and sites that illustrate, illuminate and make you think about the profound, sometimes sublime, ways that the Internet touches our lives.
Have you ever asked yourself what you’re really feeding on when eating a chicken?
Before you buy a sandwich, don’t you want to know what it’s filled with?
Well, I suppose you would want to know the same thing before eating a chicken, no?
Updating the Google Library entry of last week, the Google Watch.org has obtained a copy of Google’s agreement with the University of Michigan and posted it on the Internet. Start reading the saga here, and for the actual agreement, follow links here. The mystery is, of course, if the entire agreement is so confidential, why [...]
Geeky afficionados of the magazine Popular Mechanics will appreciate a new publication from O’Reilly Media. Make is more fun than a basket of kittens! And I haven’t even tried to make anything myself yet. Just reading about the projects and viewing the colorful layouts was a treat. You won’t find the magazine’s [...]
Today’s Parade magazine, a weekly tabloid carried by many U.S. Sunday newspapers, ran an article by writer Norman Mailer. He suggests that eliminating TV ads will alleviate declining literacy rates in the U.S. His focus is the concentration it takes to read; his thesis, TV commercials not only make children fat, but also teach them [...]
With the heated debates from all sides in this most recent election, I believe that now would be a good time for the majority of American citizens to re-familiarize themselves with the Constitution. My personal recommendation would be for those who are interested in further educating themselves on their rights and freedoms to either [...]
This title meme is the battle cry of the neo-scientific creationists. It’s creationism vs. evolution, Part Deux, all over again. Only this time it’s more insidious, sneaky, sexy. They’re trying to “sell the sizzle” because there is no meat. And they’re doing it with our children! A more coherent articulation is [...]
We live in interesting times. Free speech isn’t as free as it used to be. Evan Coyne Maloney, that independent thinker that brought you brain-terminal.com, is at it again with his new site, AcademicBias.com. It’s the home page of a full-length feature documentary he and his team are working on, to be released in Spring [...]
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Should that be “nite lite”? Yet another DIY project complete with color photos is availble from the OTHERPOWER website. The impetus for this experiment came from a student asking a science question of an expert at the Science for Kids forum at AllExperts. An incremental part of getting the hamster to [...]
Yesterday the New York Times ran an article reporting on blogs for classrooms. Some of the proponents’ logic escapes me. It sounds as if the teachers promote classroom blogs to decrease their work, and they don’t give a hoot about encouraging good writing. One part gave me a laugh: “The Little [...]
Has Jennifer Garrett, a Boston blogger, been reading my Writer’s Edge blog? I hope so. She’s built a Blogger Knowledge article from references to the Lynne Truss book about which I’ve been babbling on. (See July 04, 2004, Freedom From Bad Writing!, August 09, 2004, Free Books, Almost, and August 14, 2004, Let Them [...]
Many thanks to Joe Crawford over at the San Diego Blog for keeping me informed on all the technological happenings here in my town. Now it seems our city’s libraries are going wireless.
The San Diego (CA) Unified School District, eighth largest public school district in the US with 138,000 students, is calling on the local web design community to help it craft an RFP. Someone in the district envisions a one-size-fits-all comprehensive online system to serve the teachers, parents, students, vendors, administraters, and the public.
The Internet has given us access to many scholarly works that were difficult to find before. We can read the Classics online as easily as we can read Uncle Bob’s blog about his summer vacation.
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