Via RWW come some thoughts on what’s ahead from Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Five years from now the internet will be dominated by Chinese-language content. Today’s teenagers are the model of how the web will work in five years – they jump from app to app to app seamlessly. Five years is a factor of [...]
I came across this via a link on Twitter (can’t remember who, sorry) and thought I’d post it for my students.
A few things that have caught my attention in recent weeks, in no particular order. 1. I see curation as a big part of journalism online, so I bookmarked this piece from Mike Masnick on Techdirt (and the Google Newsroom piece referred to here). Jay Rosen points us to an article out of France that [...]
If you're following the threads about business models for news, this post is too much fun to pass up.
The Guardian has a Google map showing the locations of its staff around the world. To be fair, it's probably one of few papers with enough foreign-based staff to warrant using a world map. But still, it's a nice idea and would work just as well with a national or regional map.
This is interesting. Google has started inviting experts to write authoritative articles, called knols (units of knowledge), in an initiative destined to go head to head with Wikipedia.
Saturday, August 7, 2010
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