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Information Age

The Power of Shutting Up in the Internet Age

Edward Muzio | Posted 12.15.2011 | Technology

Read More: Information Age, Internet, Facebook, Comments, Blogging, Blogs, Social Media, Facebook News Feed, Technology News
Edward Muzio

Every ounce of attention, positive or negative, feeds more power to the content receiving it. That's the power of shutting up: it keeps you from voting for what you despise.

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On Brain Blur

Marian Salzman | Posted 12.07.2011 | Technology

Read More: Advertisingweek, Information Age, Social Media, News Cycle, Advertising Week 2011, Advertising Week, Advertising, Technology News
Marian Salzman

The pace at which we work now is beyond warp speed, and the window in which to look ahead for PR -- and all disciplines -- is closing so fast that many of us are finding ourselves with fingers caught in the frame.

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The Spirit of a Generation

Debra Ollivier | Posted 12.02.2011 | Fifty

Read More: Reinvention, 1960s, Baby Boomers, Rotary Phone, Parenting Teens, Teenage Love, Digital Age, Information Age, Feminism, Parenting post50, Star Trek, Fifty News
Debra Ollivier

We don't choose the decade we're born into. We can only hope that the collective entrepreneurial spirit of our generation can mobilize itself to create a better future not only for our kids, but for our parents and for ourselves.

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The Power of Connections in a Shrinking World

Rev. Larry Hollon | Posted 11.09.2011 | Media

Read More: 9/11, Information Age, Globalization, Global Interconnectedness, International News, Media News
Rev. Larry Hollon

The tide of history is sweeping us toward a more interconnected and interactive world. It is better to embrace this reality than to ignore it and be swept up in the current.

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Digitalman: Faster Than a Speeding Byte

Peter Block | Posted 05.30.2011 | Technology

Read More: Information Age, Computer Age, Information Economy, Facebook, Digital Technology, Digital Age, Mark Zuckerberg, The Social Network, Social Network, Technology News
Peter Block

No technical obstacle stands in Zuckerberg's way. He never needs a help line, never is referred to a system administrator, never is asked for an "SSID" or a password that he has not memorized.

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Let's Bring Aging Americans Into the Information Age

Marcia Kerz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Information Age, Adults in Information Age, Technology, Technology Education, Oasis, Technology Generation Gap, Adults and Technology, Politics News
Marcia Kerz

As young Americans have become the most tech-savvy generation in history, the generations preceding them have not kept pace -- to the detriment of their economic and even physical well-being.

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The key to Turning Data into Information

Jose Vilson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Education

Read More: Information Age, Education, Assessment, Information Overload, Data, Teachers Assessment, Education News
Jose Vilson

The tons of assessments we drop on students monthly give us nothing but decimals and percentages, rarely making any definitive statements about the progress that our students make in their education.

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Digital Age Hopes, Stone Age Acceptance

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Acceptance, Stone Age, Mindware, Mindfulness, Hope, Information Age, Pattern Interruption, Reading, Healthy Living News
Pavel Somov, Ph.D.

Most weeks I pick up two or three random books (from a local store that sells used books). Some of them I read cover to cover, others - I skim. I fi...

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Upheaval at the Turn of the Millennium

Kenneth Kales | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact

Read More: Generations, Popular Culture, Society, Economics, American History, Industrial Age, Information Age, Impact News
Kenneth Kales

The working people of this great nation are fighting with our hearts and souls to salvage what we can of an older Industrial Age society, and forging ...

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A Proposal for a Minor Revolution in Human Affairs

Barrett Brown | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Read More: Information Age, Project PM, Internet, Skepticism, Media News
Barrett Brown

Today, we are blessed to exist in an age of unprecedented tumult and potential by virtue of the advent of the internet and the information age as a whole.

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Zed's Dead - Law, Finance, and the Future of Online Publishing (Part Two)

Peter Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Read More: Thomson Reuters, Law, Digital Media, Wall Street Bailout, Newspapers, Reed Elsevier, Wall Street Reform, Information Age, Future of Publishing, Media, Wall Street Journal, Gannett, Lexisnexis, Bloomberg, Westlaw, Publishing, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Finance, New York Times, Washington Post, Media News, News, Business News
Peter Schwartz

  "Whose motorcycle is this?" "It's a chopper, baby." "Whose chopper is this?" "Zed's" "Who's Zed?&q...

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Zed's Dead - Law, Finance, and the Future of Online Publishing (Part One)

Peter Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Read More: Digital Media, Thomson Reuters, Law, Wall Street Bailout, Reed Elsevier, Information Age, Wall Street Reform, Future of Publishing, Media, Gannett, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Westlaw, Publishing, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Finance, New York Times, Washington Post, Media News, Newspapers, News, Lexisnexis, Business News
Peter Schwartz

  "Whose motorcycle is this?" "It's a chopper, baby." "Whose chopper is this?" "Zed's" "Who's Zed?&q...

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The Three Laws of Social Media

Josh Sternberg | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Read More: Information Age, Science, Thermodynamics, Social Media, Twitter, Facebook, Laws, Media News
Josh Sternberg

Our era is called the "Information Age" for a reason. The pervasive idea that information should be both accessible and free is as strong a tenet of democracy as the ability to criticize the government.

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Health Care Reform and The Awesome Power of Techno-Confusion

Dr. Peggy Drexler | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Read More: Future of Journalism, Google, Newspapers, Death Panels, Information Age, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Town Hall Meetings, Newspaper Industry, Media News
Dr. Peggy Drexler

Information technology has added rocket fuel to the engine of democracy. Will it power us forward or keep us spinning wildly in one spot?

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Information Addiction and Our Quest for Relevancy

Scott Lachut | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Internet, Relevancy, Information, Biological Imperative, Social Web, Brain, Biology, Online, Seeking, Addiction, Wanting, Mind, Information Overload, Information Age, Beating-Internet-Addiction, Internet Addiction, Facebook Addiction, Addiction & Recovery, Healthy Living News
Scott Lachut

This quest for what might be, creates a seemingly infinite feedback loop where consumption continuously renews the appetite.

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Start Asking

Marshall Goldsmith | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Friend, Knowledge Workers, Listening, Leaders, Peter Drucker, Discipline, Information Age, Opinion, Habit, Parent, Courage, Coach, Child, Corporations, 360 Feedback, Managers, Interpersonal Relationship, Family, Leadership, Success-Tips, Healthy Living News
Marshall Goldsmith

Why don't most of us ask, even though we know we should? We don't ask, because we are afraid of the answers.

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The Reinvention of Legal Research: The Future Is Now

Peter Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Read More: Information Age, Internet, Law, Publishing, Data, Bloomberg, Westlaw, Legal Research Online, Lexisnexis, Media News
Peter Schwartz

Legal research, once the province of desks, books, and binders, is now online, data-driven, and real-time. This poses serious challenge to old publishing stalwarts like Westlaw and LexisNexis.

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Paying Attention in the Information-Overload Age

Ward Sutton | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Information Age, Paying Attention, Multitasking, Winifred Gallagher, Digital Age, Healthy Living News
Ward Sutton

In her new book, Winifred Gallagher thoroughly makes the case that our lives -- and the people we are -- are a product of what we choose to focus our attention on.

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Libraries Are America's Lifelines. Leave Them Alone

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Mayor Bloomberg, New York City, Books, Libraries, Information Age, Public Libraries, Politics News
Kenneth C. Davis

New York City's public library systems are once again under siege, on the chopping block, threatened with draconian cuts in the face of New York City's Great Recession.

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Moldova: Power to the People, Electronically Speaking

Moira Gunn | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Iphone, Twitter, Tech Nation, Howard Dean, Technation, Moldova, BioTech Nation, Information Age, World News
Moira Gunn

Yes, the Information Age has arrived, and without a doubt, information and freedom are inextricably linked. Truth be told, the power of governments will never be the same.

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Tomorrow's Info Today: Staying Ahead of the News Cycle

Randall Amster | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Read More: The Future, Future, Media News, Unified Theory, Information Overload, Green Collar Economy, Green Jobs, Rush Limbaugh, Current Events, Economy, Victory Gardens, Information Age, The Commons, Teleportation, Recession, Star Trek, Nature, Privatization, Agribusiness, Robotics, Gardening, Gmo, Robots, Vulture Capitalism, Humor, Speculation, New Media, Humor and Satire, Media News
Randall Amster

From now on, I will only get my news from future-based sources, and thus seek to remain ahead of the curve. Outlandish, you say? Impossible? You are obviously so behind the times.

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America: Make April 8th "National Info-Less Day"

Spencer Green | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy

Read More: Internet, News Organizations, Information Overload, Digg, Information, Blog, Bloggers, Computers, Email, Information Age, Nadya Suleman, Twitter, Media, Facebook, News, Comedy News
Spencer Green

That's 24 hours in which no person, no media organization, no blogger, no social network, no whoever or whatever can disseminate, transmit, broadcast, pass along any new information to anyone else.

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A Googlement Above the People, Around the People, and Ahead of the People

Randall Amster | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Read More: The Internet, Google, Internet, Google Earth, Twitter, Gps, Darpa, Total Information Awareness, Information Age, Surveillance, Shadow Government, Information Technology, Facebook, Myspace, Big Brother, New World Order, Brave New World, Media News
Randall Amster

Who else would you want keeping track of stuff, watching your back (and front), fighting our undeclared cyber-wars, and making the trains run on time? Next stop, Googletopia!

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The Information Age: Not Just Google

Andrew Sargus Klein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Read More: Information Age, Web 2.0, The Atlantic Monthly, Google, Internet, Media News
Andrew Sargus Klein

Google isn't everything; we need to discontinue thinking of Google as the Internet age's umbrella -- its dominance is as much a product of the Internet as our own evolving neuroses.

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Computer Chip-Shrinking May Be Nearing Its Limits

AP | JORDAN ROBERTSON | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Read More: Information Age, Chip Shrinking, Chi-Shrinking, Nerve Cells Chips, Transistor Chips, Computer Chips, Business News

Sixty years after transistors were invented and nearly five decades since they were first integrated into silicon chips, the tiny on-off switches dub...

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