Archive | December, 2007

Happy Holidays

In the spirit of the holidays I’d like to share the story of the newest member of my family. (please note that this long post is slightly off-topic.) In February 2007, the Humane Society and local authorities raided a farm in rural Tennessee and found over 100 dogs living in horrible conditions in a barn.  Read more »

Information R/evolution

Another great video from Michael Wesch at Kansas State. Based on the work of David Weinberger in his book Everything is Miscellaneous – the power of the new digital disorder.

Web Trend #5- E-mail is Soooo Dead

E-mail has been hijacked by the forces of evil. Spam and misuse have caused many people to declare e-mail bankruptcy, something that I may do in the near future. And now the millennial generation is here and they prefer to communicate through IM, tex

Web Trend #6 – Syndication and the End of the Web Page Paradigm

Conceptually, most people think of the web as a collection of sites with each site containing individual pages. The page is the atom of the web, the smallest unit of the web. Sites and pages are connected by creating hyperlinks between pages. This

Web Trend #7 – The Web as Platform

For many, the concept of web as platform really defines what Web 2.0 is all about. Today we now expect instant access to all of our digital information no matter where we are and what device we are using. We increasingly want to share it with others

Web Trend #8 – Virtual Reality

In Jason Frand’s article “The Information Age Mindset”, one of his 10 attributes is “Reality is No Longer Real.” Spend time with any teenager and you will be amazed with the amount of time they spend in virtual worlds playing massively multiplayer on