A Google search may or may not lead them to valuable resources online, but many students today clearly don’t know how to differentiate between what’s legitimate and what’s not. Being able to look at a piece of information online and challenge it in order to determine whether or not it is a fact is simply not a skill that many online users have. However, once this process is learned, students can apply it throughout their education - no matter what medium they use for research.
ReadWriteWeb on Information
23 June 2008
Twitter, FriendFeed, email, IM, and RSS take away our focus when we’re really concentrating and switching to and from each task can mess us up. Instead of pining away for the overstimulated sponge-like skills of Scoble, it may be time to embrace this quality about yourself and use it to your advantage. Just because you’re not able to write a great post while concurrently dealing with new email and IMs, that doesn’t mean there’s anything inherently wrong with you that needs fixing.
ReadWriteWeb on Information Overload
13 April 2008
The Internet is very transient in nature, things often move at a breakneck pace. The main page of a blog like ReadWriteWeb might change 10-15 times in a day. The main page of CNN.com might change far more than that. How do we archive information when the technology to read it, and indeed the information itself, changes so fast?
ReadWriteWeb on Archiving
5 April 2008
I think - and here I speak only as an individual observer with the privilege of first-hand access to a publication like Mashable - that it’d be quite healthy if the [blogging] industry were to, for lack of a better word, chill.
Mashable on Blogging
25 March 2008
So far I am actually reading more posts, by more authors, and I have given up worrying whether I’ve missed something important. If it’s truly important, I’ll come across it some place besides my feed reader.
Every Dot Connects on RSS
1 March 2008
Staying current. This is the driving need behind the friendfeed, the newsfeed, and the blogfeed. It is implicit in the water cooler experience and explicit in professional life. Yet there is no fast, precise, and comprehensive way to stay current across our range of interests.
EarylStageVC on Current Information
11 February 2008
The United States - and other pockets of the developed world - are hooked on two drugs: information and busyness.
Micro Persuasion on Information Overload