In a Today show flashback from January, 1994, Katie Couric and Bryant Gumble debate how to pronounce @—“is it at or about?” Couric seems even more perplexed by the bigger idea of the internet, which she acknowledges is “becoming really big now.”Found here via@tonyveitchUK on Twitter
Sunday, 30 January 2011
Trying to describe the internet in 1994
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
Homo Interneticus
The first few parts of the fourth episode of the BBC's Virtual Revolution looked at some of the concerns over how 'Generation Web' might be being changed in their ways of thinking and relationships as a result of heavy use of the web at an early age.
Watch the clips and make notes on positive and negative aspects.
A positive counterpoint is this column by blogger and author Cory Doctorow describing how he and his daughter use the internet:
Watch the clips and make notes on positive and negative aspects.
A positive counterpoint is this column by blogger and author Cory Doctorow describing how he and his daughter use the internet:
Jack and the interstalk: why the computer is not a scary monster
Sunday, 16 January 2011
Hopefully, blog posts will start to show up on the Facebook page now.
Assuming I pressed all the correct internet buttons.
Friday, 10 December 2010
The digital reading revolution
Guardian: The digital reading revolutionBooks have come late to the digital party, but change is now happening at such a furious pace that even conservative members of the trade are starting to realise that their industry is being snatched away from them before their eyes. The undisputed leader in the race to sell digital books is Amazon. Its Kindle e-reader was a late entry into the race but it used its redoubtable marketing muscle to gain a 76% share of all digital books sold. It could have been much more but for the arrival of the iPad, which now has a 5% market share, though rising fast.
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