We asked Timothy Karr, the Campaign Director for Free Press, to offer some thoughts on broadband policy and President-Elect Obama’s pledge to make the Internet available to all. His guest post is below: In a Saturday morning YouTube address, President-elect Barack Obama gave the nation a first glimpse at his administration’s stimulus plan – and […]
The arrest of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich on corruption charges (including a claim that he tried to profit from the selection of a replacement for now President-Elect Obama’s Senate seat) is a huge story. But, within this huge story there were two other huge stories from the standpoint of the media. First, among the examples […]
The Pew Internet & American Life project released a new study today that said “More than half – 53% – of all American adults play video games of some kind, whether on a computer, on a gaming console, on a cell phone or other handheld device, on a portable gaming device, or online.” I play […]
With the economy sputtering and job losses mounting, there is a lot of discussion right now about what kinds of jobs, and more importantly skills, are needed to get things back on track. This discussion is all the more complicated because of the massive changes our society is currently undergoing, as we become more diverse […]
What: How Obama Won the First Web 2.0 Election and Will Create The First Web 2.0 Presidency When: Monday, December 8, 2008, 4 pm and open to the public. Where: George Washington University, Washington, DC. Details here. Our good friend and iFOCOS Senior Fellow, Carin Dessauer, is moderating what promises to be a fascinating discussion […]
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 […]
News broke yesterday that Random House, the world’s largest book publisher, was re-structuring and would eliminate two large publishing groups. This is not the first time we have heard about trouble in the book publishing industry, but certainly one of the most alarming signs that the books are suffering in the digital age (as well […]
Online news and newspaper sites are either struggling to attract audiences or generate revenue (and some struggle with both). The reasons are many: news sites have to compete for attention with blogs, social networks, and other channels in the increasingly crowded online world; as audiences have more opportunities to connect, get and share information, and […]
Larry Lessig and the team from Change Congress, along with a large (and growing) group of internet visionaries released a set of principles today, with the goal of helping/pushing President-Elect Obama towards a more open and accessible government. The three principles that Lessig et al shared at http://open-government.us/ included: 1. No Legal Barrier to Sharing […]
Is media bad for you? Has technology ruined a whole generation of children? The answer, according to researchers from the National Institutes of Health and Yale University, is yes. (Here is coverage of the study from the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, and Broadcasting & Cable. The researchers took a detailed look at […]