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Are Computers Changing Childhood?

By on November 7, 2008 in Business & Marketing, Next Tech, The Biosphere

In this video from the 2008 Dust or Magic Institute, Warren Buckleitner talks about how children’s portable computing devices are changing childhood and comes to some insightful conclusions. Born the same year as BF Skinner’s teaching machine (1958), Warren Buckleitner has been reviewing children’s technology products now for over half of his life. After five [...]

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Joost-o-Matic

By on October 15, 2008 in The Biosphere

What a difference a year makes in the life of a technology start-up. Not that long ago I was singing the praises of Joost, a peer-to-peer video streaming technology that promised a huge boost in quality and performance. Actually, Joost did pretty well delivering on the promise. But what happens if you throw a party [...]

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私は日本人になっている

By on October 8, 2008 in Social Media, The Biosphere

I’m not really turning Japanese as this post’s title* suggests, but as a blogger and a Blogfather I was fascinated to learn that according to reports last year in Technorati and The Washington Post, Japanese has become the dominant language of the blogosphere. Why Japanese? With a vast middle-class nearly everyone can afford an internet [...]

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Being There: the Game as Narrative

By on October 6, 2008 in Games & Simulations, The Biosphere

Narrative story telling has been part of the the human experience since we told tales of the days hunt around the fire, about what it was like to “be there” when this or that event happened. From that oral tradition, we learned to write them in pictures, then glyphs, and a succession of written languages and media [...]

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Stephen King’s Media Mashup

By on September 29, 2008 in The Biosphere

CBS’ Simon & Shuster dipped its toe into the world of online video over the summer with the launch of its own digital production studio to produce digital HD video interview series and other features around its authors. Nothing remarkable on the surface. However their first video series features not only Stephen King discussing his [...]

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Hack the Debate

By on September 28, 2008 in Next Tech, Social Media, The Biosphere

I trust you all tuned in last Friday night to see if McCain was going to show up? After such a tough week for the old maverick — suspending his campaign, parachuting into Washington, speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative,  and keeping everyone guessing if we’d be watching Barack debate himself — it made for [...]

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Teens, Games… Civics?

By on September 18, 2008 in Games & Simulations, The Biosphere

You hear the words “teens” and “games” in the same sentence all the time, but seldom with the word “civics” included. Continuing their series of outstanding, unbiased reports on American Culture, the PEW Internet and American Life project released Teens, Games and Civics this week. In the first national survey of it’s kind, PEW found [...]

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Who Sees WoW Better?

Who Sees WoW Better?

By on September 16, 2008 in Business & Marketing, Games & Simulations, Social Media, The Biosphere

I began playing World of Warcraft when I was a suit for Pearson. Though I worked my way up to a L20-something Paladin, the daily 4 hours as a commuter and on the phone, and 10 hours at the computer and on the phone killed my interest in grinding higher. Still, WoW was compelling and [...]

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The Global Market

By on September 11, 2008 in Next Tech, Social Media, The Biosphere

Click image to stop on one picture, mouse up or down to pan, click again to continue. Here’s a whole new take on the global market and media mashups. This kaleidoscopic stream displays 35 images I shot at public markets in London, Seattle, New York City, in Ariquipa and Urubamba, Peru, and in Seine Bight, [...]

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Twitter + Thriller = Twiller

By on September 3, 2008 in Social Media, The Biosphere

Several weeks ago in Hooked on Twitter I pondered whether microblogging had spawned a new literary form. Evidently it has, as Matt Richtel writes in the New York Times last weekend: You might remember the novel in its earlier form; it had a cover, and many pages, forethought of plot, editors and agents weighing in, [...]

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Who’s in Your Social Network?

By on September 2, 2008 in Social Media, The Biosphere

Though summer reading does not summer blogging make, now Labor Day has past it’s time to catch up. One of the more intriguing ideas to hit my radar in August is Scott Traylor’s post on the size of online social networks: How is it that some members of online social networks have so many connections? [...]

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Hooked on Twitter

Hooked on Twitter

By on August 4, 2008 in Social Media, The Biosphere

Everyone is asking me about Twitter lately: “What is it?” Microblogging. “Does it serve any purpose?” Lets you follow and communicate — 140 characters at a time — with friends, colleagues or (from the Twitter home page once you’re logged in) everyone who tweets. But invariably it comes down to the last question, “Why would [...]

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