David Weinberger
Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard
& 4 ways the Internet is making us dumber (though overall it’s making us smarter)
Information abundant, but also abundance of crap.
Organizations premised on the good stuff having to redefine.
Age of information: finding out information, narrowing down to good stuff.
Today: abundant information (showed a profile page to demonstrate)
Exited [...]
I’ve been reading Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers for the past few days, and I love it. I loved The Tipping Point, wasn’t quite as enamored with Blink, so I’m glad to be back in the fan club. In case you’re not familiar with the premise of Gladwell’s newest book, he examines people who are incredible [...]
I love the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Their most recent study is on the future of the internet (pdf). It’s awesome. Among the more interesting points (to me):
In 2020 the mobile device will be the primary connection tool to the internet for most of the world & voice recognition and touch user-interfaces will [...]
I’ve been thinking (sporadically, as it might be) about library instruction lately. I think this is coming up from the context of moving my lib100 class from a traditional one, to one that incorporates more internet research, to one that follows a completely nontraditional format. With each redesign, I’ve felt the class is more like [...]
Thanks, Kevin Kelly.
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