The Power of Shutting Up in the Internet Age
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.
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.
Marian Salzman | Posted 12.07.2011 | Technology
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.
Debra Ollivier | Posted 12.02.2011 | Fifty
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.
Rev. Larry Hollon | Posted 11.09.2011 | Media
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.
Peter Block | Posted 05.30.2011 | Technology
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.
Marcia Kerz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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.
Jose Vilson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Education
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.
Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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...
Kenneth Kales | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
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 ...
Barrett Brown | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
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.
Peter Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
"Whose motorcycle is this?" "It's a chopper, baby." "Whose chopper is this?" "Zed's" "Who's Zed?&q...
Peter Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
"Whose motorcycle is this?" "It's a chopper, baby." "Whose chopper is this?" "Zed's" "Who's Zed?&q...
Josh Sternberg | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
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.
Dr. Peggy Drexler | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Information technology has added rocket fuel to the engine of democracy. Will it power us forward or keep us spinning wildly in one spot?
Scott Lachut | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
This quest for what might be, creates a seemingly infinite feedback loop where consumption continuously renews the appetite.
Marshall Goldsmith | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Why don't most of us ask, even though we know we should? We don't ask, because we are afraid of the answers.
Peter Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
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.
Ward Sutton | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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.
Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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.
Moira Gunn | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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.
Randall Amster | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
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.
Spencer Green | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
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.
Randall Amster | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
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!
Andrew Sargus Klein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
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.
AP | JORDAN ROBERTSON | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Sixty years after transistors were invented and nearly five decades since they were first integrated into silicon chips, the tiny on-off switches dub...
Edward Muzio | Posted 12.15.2011 | Technology