December 13, 2007

Digital Niche Communities

Prof. Oke’s comment a couple posts back and the coming end of the year reminded me of something I’d much rather forget — college applications. Early college decisions are coming back this Friday, and as a college freshman, the anxiety and the nerves of last year are still fresh on my mind. The stress [...]

December 3, 2007

Discussing ‘Born Digital’ with European Students

(Cross posted from Dr. Gasser’s blog)
John Palfrey and I are getting tremendously helpful feedback on the draft v.0.9 of our forthcoming book Born Digital (Basic Books, German translation with Hanser) from a number of great students at Harvard and St. Gallen Law School, respectively. Last week, John and I had an inspiring conversation about the [...]

November 29, 2007

Kindle: not your parents’ eBook.

On November 19, Amazon.com announced its first foray into hardware: a portable eBook reader called the Kindle. Amazon hopes the Kindle will become the iPod of books - a portable personal library you can take anywhere.

That same day, the National Endowment for the Arts announced the results of a new study: young Americans are [...]

November 28, 2007

I Wish I Knew How to Quit You

“I don’t have a problem,” Chang-hoon said in an interview three days after starting the camp. “Seventeen hours a day online is fine.”

The New York Times has an article about a South Korean boot camp for kids with Internet addictions. South Korea, which claims to be the most wired nation on the planet, recently held [...]

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