Mashable’s Pete Cashmore hits the ALL CAPS on three points: 1. PAID RECOMMENDATIONS DESTROY TRUST 2. THE WEB ECONOMY = TRUST + ATTENTION 3. ADVERTISERS: ADD VALUE, DON’T INTERRUPT! The problem: people assume that money is the web’s primary currency. But the web trades in other currencies: trust and attention. Trust is the confidence we… Read More »
From the video description: Before taking the stage, Sia gave an exclusive interview the CW11.com’s Doug Vannoni. Sia performed on the Queen of the Valley stage at the All Points Festival on Saturday, August 9.
From the Wikipedia summary: EPIC 2014 is a Flash movie released in November 2004 by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson with original music by Aaron McLeran. It was based on a presentation they gave at the Poynter Institute in the spring of that year. The movie is 8 minutes long and is licensed under a… Read More »
This syllabus was written in the fall of 2000 for a journalism course taught by former UW-Oshkosh Department of Journalism adjunct faculty member Matthew Stanton. Note that many of the recommend links below now go to dead sites, but are included here for reference back on the coursework of the time. SUMMARY: Spring 2001 instruction… Read More »
From Skeptic June 1997, Vol 5, #2, 43-49, archived on http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/Articles/skeptic%201997.htm Why not? The basic idea is very simple. If Dawkins is right then everything you have learned by imitation from someone else is a meme. This includes all the words in your vocabulary, the stories you know, the skills and habits you have picked… Read More »