What do you know?
Eve Dmochowska 
Now that we have all this “extra” information sources, do we know more than before?
The short answer? No.
According to “What Americans Know 1989-2007” :
a new nationwide survey finds that the coaxial and digital revolutions and attendant changes in news audience behaviors have had little impact on how much Americans know about national and international affairs.
On [...]
Snail Mail faster than E-mail?
I came across this interesting sidebit in an old issue of The New Yorker (Oct16, 2006), written by Nick Paumgarten.
He talks about Yossi Vardi, an Israelite living in the US, who helped found ICQ. During a talk he presented at a Gadgetoff (an annual gathering devoted to “bringing the smart and the useless together”), [...]
Wikipedia censored at schools?
Came across this on the Slashdot blog:
Recently, our school board made the decision to block Wikipedia from our school district’s ….The reason given was that Wikipedia (being user created and edited) did not represent a credible or reliable source of information for schools. Should we block sites such as Wikipedia because students may be exposed [...]
Is the blogosphere a pyramid scheme?
Is the blogging phenomenon a well disguised pyramid scheme? It seems that everyone who reads blogs, also feels compelled to write some.
It certainly happened to me.
I have been thoroughly exploring the South African blog scene for about two weeks now (ever since this month’s inspiring First Tuesday meeting, actually) and have now decided [...]
A blank page …
Hmmm. A blank page. Daunting.
Need an ice breaker.
Hey! Anyone watching Idols? Oh.
Speaking of music, here is a nice tounge-in-cheek post about the high quality of lyrics, as suggested by Seth’s Blog. Makes me think of that old quote about nobody going bankrupt by underestimating the intelligence [...]
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