Archive for the 'The New WWW' Category

Intriguing Ourselves to Death…

Author: tom | 03 January 2008 | 8 Comments
Categories: Flat World Education, Greek Sculpture, The New WWW, Wikicademy

a plea for Education…
What follows isn’t anything new, but will likely be all too common – yet it serves as a concrete example of why education must change and what it must address.
Over an hour ago, I thought I’d better see if any comments had been made to a recent post of mine on the [...]

Apple’s hot & frothy

Author: tom | 29 December 2007 | No Comments
Categories: The New WWW, Ubiquitous Consumption

According to the buzz, Forbes alerts us to a new patent logged by Apple that will allow iPhone users to place their Starbucks order and get a return message when it’s ready.  Use your gadget to jump ahead of all those less savvy latte lovers.  One more incremental step in the dawning New WWW [...]

The “outsourced brain”

Author: tom | 31 October 2007 | No Comments
Categories: Flat World Education, The New WWW, Web 2.0, Wikicademy

David Brooks’ Op-Ed piece “The Outsourced Brain” in the New York Times is a must read for educators. Beginning with a GPS goddess that gently steers the author in the right direction, Brooks goes on to invoke his use of calculators for math (a given), iTunes for musical selection, search engines for memory of [...]

Teachable Doh!-ment

Author: tom | 17 August 2007 | 1 Comment
Categories: Crumbware, The New WWW

The Age reports how a Sydney resident recorded The Simpson’s Movie on its premiere evening via his mobile phone and had it posted on the net within two hours. It only took that amount of time before representatives of 20th Century Fox alerted Australian Federal Police about the copyright violation. Of course, [...]

Big Brother or “Big Mother?”

Author: tom | 29 March 2007 | No Comments
Categories: Big Mother, The New WWW

A few years ago Coca-Cola ran a promotion called “The Unexpected Summer.” In it a combo cellphone GPS device was rigged to look like a can of Coke and placed in over a hundred 12-packs around the country. A companion Web site allowed people to watch the blips as satellites tracked the lucky winners within [...]

“World of WarCrack”

Author: tom | 25 October 2006 | 6 Comments
Categories: The New WWW

I’ve been harping for a couple years about how vulnerable we can all be to the lure of getting “Whatever we want, Whenever and Wherever” (The New WWW). Even though it’s human nature to want what we want (all of it!), there’s some point in every life (that lasts long enough) when a person [...]

‘US full of Internet addicts’

Author: tom | 19 October 2006 | No Comments
Categories: A New 3Rs, The New WWW

Okay, so I can say “I told you so…” An article recently making the rounds highlights research at Stanford University that “indicated more than one in eight US residents showed at least one sign of ‘problematic Internet use.’” And I suppose it’s also no surprise that “the typical Internet addict is a single, college-educated, [...]

YouTube used for “Astro Turf”

Author: tom | 15 September 2006 | No Comments
Categories: The New WWW

Apparently “Astro Turfing” was first coined by Lloyd Bentsen to describe fake grassroots campaigns to sway public opinion.  Not only was LonelyGirl15 a fake, but now The Wall Street Journal has fingered the dirty PR company DCI for posting a parody of Al Gore to take the sting out of An Inconvenient Truth.  You see [...]

Okay, how old are you?!

Author: tom | 13 June 2006 | 10 Comments
Categories: The New WWW

So the teen repellent sound used by shopkeepers in England has been turned to advantage. The best article I’ve found on it is from National Public Radio. Inventor Howard Stapleton, creator of the Mosquito teen repellent, says only a few people over age 30 can hear the Mosquito’s sound.

Click to hear it.
The [...]

Cambodia says no thanks to 3G porn

Author: tom | 30 May 2006 | No Comments
Categories: The New WWW

According to an AP article posted in SiliconValley.com, “Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday banned the latest generation of mobile phone services in Cambodia to curb the dissemination of pornography.” Of course 3G provides essentially broadband speeds to mobile devices making them capable of displaying high-quality video and images in the privacy of your [...]