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Simplicity = Sanity. This is the premise of the book for an overly complicated and increasingly complex world. Ten laws to help us move toward simplicity in design, technology, business and life.
Jim Hancock discusses the future of the music industry in light of an interview between Wired magazine and Universal Music Group CEO Doug Morris.
Jim Hancock / Dec 5 2007
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Jeff Howe is a contributing editor at Wired Magazine, where he covers the entertainment industry, among other subjects.
Sam Nguyen / Sep 2 2006
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The architecture and application of information technology changes the ecology of information.
design, technology, business, life
Sam Nguyen / Oct 2 2006
Websites
Google just launched a new search portal for all things governmental. Google U.S. Government Search narrows search results to federal, state and local government web sites, producing better results for the searcher.
Jim Hancock / Jun 23 2006
Articles
One out of four adults say the internet and cell phones have brought their families closer than their own family of origin.
Dan Wooldridge summarizes the Pew Research Center's findings on the impact of the internet on American politics.
Webware.com, a recently launched website by CNET, focuses on the fundamental shift underway in how people use computers and the Internet.
Sam Nguyen / Nov 14 2006
Websites
The internet has now surpassed all other media except television as a main source for national and international news.
According to a report in TechCrunch, Firefox, the Mozilla Foundation's free web browser now commands a 13 percent global marketplace share - up from 8.7 percent in just over a year.
Jim Hancock / Jul 18 2006
Articles
Dan Wooldridge notes that in an ever increasingly technologically connected culture, people may be realizing that true relationships and friendships require more than digital chatter. Can face to face be making a comeback?
In July 2006 Google, the noun, was officially elevated to a verb, meaning "to use the Google search engine to obtain information on the internet," by not one but two leading English language dictionaries. Google did not take the news well.
Jim Hancock / Aug 10 2006
Articles
AdAge reports advertising dollars were up in Q1 2006 . . . but not for everyone.
Jim Hancock / Jun 8 2006
Articles
I think it was Karl Barth who said Christians should greet the day with the New York Times in one hand and the Bible in the other. This may be the earliest reference to Information Grazing.
Computer scientist and theologian Noreen Herzfeld finds a rapture-related website. We are momentarily giddy.
Jim Hancock / Jul 18 2008
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For the first time corporate communication can be a dynamic two way conversation with the customer. Blogs are already changing business. What is the impact of blogs on corporate trust and the connection with the customer?
Two years after launching a universal book-scanning program that set a lot of publishers teeth on edge (and sent some running to their lawyers), Google is getting credit for turning "searchers into consumers."
Jim Hancock / Oct 25 2006
Articles
Technology can take a long time to develop and get traction. The internet itself was first developed in the 1969 as a Cold War project to create a communication network, ARPANET, that was protected from nuclear attack.
Sam Nguyen / Feb 22 2007
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What internet space logged more page views in August (9.4 billion) than Google? That would be MySpace.com -- the upstart web company that is part Friendster, part Blogger, part MP3.com, part craigslist.
Jim Hancock / Dec 16 2005
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The eBay phenomenon is giving rise to a shift from an accumulation culture to an auction culture where a new norm of “temporary” ownership is taking hold. People are able to constantly “trade up” because they will simultaneously be selling off what they no longer want.
Rolling Stone and the Associated Press tell us something we know and something we don't about the uneasy relationship between the music industry and it's volatile customers.
Jim Hancock / Feb 17 2006
Articles
A Washington Post story reports that the term most frequently entered in AOL's search engine between March and May 2006 was the word Google. In fact, three of the top ten search terms include the word Google. Now that's market penetration.
Jim Hancock / Aug 23 2006
Articles
The Pew Global Attitudes Project chronicles the growth of the world wide web with a comparison of self-reported internet users and emailers in 2002 and 2005.
Jim Hancock / Feb 24 2006
Articles
Zeitgeist Is a German word that translates something like "spirit of the times," one measure of which is the Google Zeitgiest list
The New York Times reports that phishing is being replaced by Key-Loggers which watch what you type and send that data to thieves.
PayPal's top ten tips for spotting emails designed to steal your personal data.
29% of Americans say they cant live without high speed internet.
The growth of internet users has plateaued in North American. Is this a sign that everyone who wants access already has it? Are the remaining holdouts offended by what's on web? Or are they just not interested?
Jim Hancock / Mar 3 2006
Articles
Dan Wooldridge points us to the current update of the popular Shift Happens video by Karl Fisch. This update, Did You Know 4.0, prepared in conjunction with The Economist, points out the changes in the media landscape and the convergence of technology.
Dan Wooldridge / Oct 15 2009
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