Posts tagged Technology
How Ebooks & The Net Bring Us Back To The Middle Ages, In a Good Way
Recently, I’ve been reading the Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man, that (in)famous work of Marshall McLuhan, and it struck me that many of his insights relating to print media and reading culture can be applied to what is happening today, exactly 50 years after its publication in 1962. To summarize, one of the…
5 Simple Facts You Can Learn From A Computer Crash
Last week every user’s worst nightmare paid me a visit: the full fledged system crash. While I documented the death, resurrection and salvaging on Twitter, here are some conclusions from the whole episode. (As usual, what happened is rather inconclusive: laptop went to sleep and didn’t “wake up”. The nerds from the computer store told…
SEO How To: Search Engine Optimization: 5 Simple Tips For Beginners
When I first heard the term SEO (Search Engine Optimization) I had very mixed feelings. Optimizing my site so it shows up better when people search for it? Sure. But so much of what I read online seemed so, well…esoteric. I have no other word to describe the feeling one gets when reading the blogs…
Of Networked Societies And Broken Links
Today I want to share a little film with you by Ericsson that discusses the future (present?) reality of a networked society and interviews co-founders of Flickr, Soundcloud, the chief editor of Wired UK, and more. Despite the overused melody at the beginning (according to a youtube commenter it sounds like a bank commercial) and the…
Envisioning Technology For 2012 And Beyond
Every baby born today (Monday, 30th of October) is part of the 500,000 that will push the human population over the 7 billion mark, according to U.N. data. And within only 28 years it’s getting even more crowded: predictions speak of 9 billion human beings on the planet by 2040. But it’s not just our…
No Outlets Necessary: Mobile Teaching
Like much else in the 21st Century, learning has taken to the Internet. For both teachers and students, education is becoming much more technologically focused. And, even more prominent: the mobile revolution. Not only are we doing everything on the Internet now, but we also want to do it on the go with smartphones and…