An interesting video on how information may evolve.
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What Digg's users need, says Adelson, are social-networking tools. On Sept. 19 the company is launching a host of new features that might seem more at home on Facebook or News Corp.'s (NWS) MySpace than on a Web site where users post links to online articles and other media. The intent is to make it easier for users to find others who share their passions by enabling them to f
First, watch this really short (1′47″) clip. It helps if you have no clue
what “Social Networking” means. Even if you do, watch it. Like me, you
will be impressed with both the effectiveness and effortlessness of
explaining such an elusive term. One of the viewers even commented
how happy HIS MUM was as she finally understands what social
networking means. So much for online dictionaries and wikipedia…
My friend Alex Wright has just published an amazing book on the
history of information (big topic, smart dude). Alex is a fantastic
information architect who has worked on some of the top websites out
there (and did a hell of job on a little ditty I like to call Rollyo). In this
book, he traces the way we’ve organized information through the ages
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Interviews with youth Wikipedia administrators. Interesting perspectives on authorship and participation.
"the world's scientists plan to compile everything they know about all of Earth's 1.8 million known species and put it all on one Web site, open to everyone. The effort, called the Encyclopedia of Life, will include species descriptions, pictures, maps, videos, sound, sightings by amateurs, and links to entire genomes and scientific journal papers." http://www.eol.org/
"While newspaper circulation continues to slide, readership is growing, especially with younger readers -- when taking online newspaper sites into consideration. According to the latest data from the Newspaper Association of America, newspaper Web sites contributed a 13.7% increase in total newspaper audience for adults 25-to-34."
-Robert Kuttner, columnist for the Boston Globe, predicts in the Columbia Journalism Review that newspapers will all be digital within 25 years. Despite gloomy forecasts and a late start, most newspapers have engaged into a viable transition to digital.
"This may not be the main issue in the wake of the most devastating tragedy ever on a US campus, but Follow the Media remarks that the coverage of the massacre gave a clear indication of the growth of citizen journalism – and its effect on traditional media coverage."