Growing up (and doing everything else) on the web

Piotr Czerski’s “We The Web Kids” (as translated by translated by Marta Szreder): We grew up with the Internet and on the Internet. This is what makes us different; this is what makes the crucial, although surprising from your point of view, difference: we do not ‘surf’ and the internet to us is not a ‘place’ or [...]

Some Correction and Insight into the Facebook Page Situation

Long story short: the news is not as bad as I thought yesterday.

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Facebook has been an enormous aid to my blogging career. It was through Facebook that I was able to get the word out about my blog posts in the beginning when essentially no one would have known what I was doing otherwise. Then I used Facebook to make connections to a few thousand networking atheists [...]

Donald Sadoway on the Battery of the Future

I’m no tech guy, but Bill Gates on the Twitter recommended this talk by an MIT Professor with a “thrilling” “game-changing” new battery, so I figured it might be worth your attention. Your Thoughts?

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Creating Objects That Tell Stories

On Sunday, I saw Yves Behar on CNN’s show The Next List (segment previewed above) and was amazed by his work. Here is a TED video from a few years ago where he talks about his projects:

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How You Get Millions of People to Cooperate in a Global Project for Free

Fascinating stuff: After re-purposing CAPTCHA so each human-typed response helps digitize books, Luis von Ahn wondered how else to use small contributions by many on the Internet for greater good. At TEDxCMU, he shares how his ambitious new project, Duolingo, will help millions learn a new language while translating the Web quickly and accurately — [...]

The Google Bubble

Eli Pariser, author of The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You, explains how websites from Facebook to Google change our search results to tell us want they think we already want to hear: “Don’t Bubble Us” is another link concisely summing up these themes. Duck Duck Go is a search engine which [...]