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If Ashton Kutcher’s 4.5 million Twitter followers make you feel inadequate, I’ve got good news: scientists investigating social networks have punked the “influentials” theory that drives celebrities to the top of the charts.
Aplusk, who boasts that he’s bigger than CNN, is apparently overrated. A new study finds that the importance of most influential spreaders in [...]

Designer Jonathan Harris explores new territory.

The goal is big. Make the shift from the left side of the brain to the right – the shift, Dale Peskin said, going on in society. An emergence of the creative world, a win for innovation and change. Think visually. To illustrate – the PC? So left. Evokes an image of old, from another [...]

The sky is falling! Newspapers aren’t going to survive. They’re declaring bankruptcy en masse. The Seattle Post Intelligencer is the latest considering going digital-only, I was told last night at We Media, along with the San Francisco Chronicle. Others already have given up some or all of their print editions. TV networks are bleeding, book [...]

Most Americans believe small business, science and tech leaders will lead the U.S. to a better future – not the news media, government or large corporations
Note: This week we’re holding our fifth annual We Media conference in Miami. Along with our research and other projects at iFOCOS, the We Media conferences, awards and community explore [...]

A study released last week suggests “that the media may be entering a climate trance (or ending a bubble, depending on your view).”  The study was conducted by Maxwell Boykoff, who studies the media and climate change at Oxford University, and posted by Andrew Revkin, the New York Times’ climate writer/blogger.
Revkin quotes Dr. Boykoff in [...]

Can all the hours we spend online rewire the circuitry of our brain?
A UCLA study released this week began to answer that question, showing that searching the Internet helps to keep older brains agile. “Our study shows that when your brain is on Google, your neural circuitry changes extensively,” Gary Small, director of UCLA’s Memory [...]