This is #4 in my response to Jacob Vanhorn’s outstanding questions on new media presence (see first, second, and third posts). It is humbling and sobering to address these questions. I don’t presume any special insights, but would ask anyone reading any of these thoughts to test them against the wisdom of others, bring them [...]
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Updated 6/4/08: Inquiring minds want to know more (see PS at bottom)
On May 19, U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman called on Google to remove Internet videos produced by terrorist organizations such as Al-Qaeda from its YouTube subsidiary. Google did not remove all the terrorist-sponsored videos in question.
Today, Bloomberg reported that “Google Diplomats Bend Free [...]
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Read and enjoy…
Jordan J. Ballor at The Acton Institute Power Blog
Mark Stanley at Digital Reason
Jeff Nuding at Dadmanly
Letitia Wong at Talitha Koum
Donnell Duncan at The Cracked Door
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Jason Fry, who writes the Real Time column for WSJ.com raises a very important question for us as dads in his column “A Father’s Dilemma”:
My son Joshua is 5, and growing up in a house with the Internet and a computer in nearly every room…Is my son’s limited exposure to computers a good thing or [...]
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Much more than a tribute to Daniel Pearl, the journalist murdered in Pakistan six years ago, this article offers profound commentary on journalism today and unscrupulous media’s complicity in fomenting terrorism—particular television:
[Media] democratization has [also] led to vulgarization. Competition has forced news channels to echo, rather than inform, viewers’ sentiments–to reinformce, rather than examine, long-held [...]
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You haven’t heard much from me this year. Not yet anyway. Recently I have had the pleasure of working on a writing project that I’ll tell you about later. I have also had the pleasure of reading and reflecting more of late. This has brought focus to what I want [...]
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Posted in Technology, culture on December 15, 2007 | No Comments »
Read this fantastic story about how a young African man is making the most of what he has to change the world for his family and his country. It is remarkable and provoking how much he has accomplished with so little.
(It is also interesting to note the societal implications of technology development in this microcosm, [...]
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Researchers have recently reported a number of significant (”potentially Nobel-level“ 
advances in stem cell research. The most groundbreaking is evidence that pluripotent stem cells—the “master” cells, prized for their capability to produce all the body’s different kinds of cells and thus to serve as a potential source for tissue regeneration and patient-specific therapy—may be [...]
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Posted in Business, Technology on December 4, 2007 | No Comments »
What did I say about Google? Look out. Now, I love what they have done for Internet search and web-based software, but a company with as much momentum and ambition as they do is going to run into some barriers. According to Guardian Unlimited, Google is watching you and now the fuzz [...]
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Posted in Technology on November 30, 2007 | 3 Comments »
In their quest to own the desktop away from Microsoft, Google is looking to store your data on its machines instead of yours. It’s a great way to compete, but there are serious implications for making one entity such a single point of failure for privacy and security reasons. It’s a trend to keep [...]
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