The current Bulletin of The Information Society for the Information Age includes a summary of a talk about children by the MacArthur Foundation’s Connie Yowell. The summary touches on several aspects of how young people are using the web, including the following noting the rising role of conte...

This photo from a series Macs through the ages at Silicon.com is the first laptop produced by Apple in its PowerBook 100 series. This colorful seven pounder does not look all that different from today’s laptop, yet this picture was taken in 1991, nearly 20 years ago! The biggest tech differenc...

This picture of kids learning in Nepal is from SEEDmagazine.com. It is a glimpse of the cascading connectivity of the world’s newest generation with the internet now underway. From the SEED article: Rabi Karmacharya is young, handsome and charismatic — and he is a man on a mission. The M...

The picture above shows my Grandma (2nd from right, front row), born in Kansas City in 1884, with some of her schoolmates. Below is the text of an email that is being sent around the internet about how very much more school kids in Kansas learned in Grandma’s day than they do now. Any of the k...

When I look at the photo with this post, I can probably tell you things about it that you would not know, because we have different expertise. I remember New Mexico of the 1940s, where this photo was taken. As a child I rode several time in the back of a truck that looked just like the one in the pi...

The mobile ball is rolled out for 2009 with our first Carnival of the year, hosted by Helen Keegan at Musings of a Mobile Marketer. GoldenSwamp.com’s post about how mobiles don’t know who is your daddy is included in the best mobile blogging of the week....

Honest, I didn’t make up that word: I found it this morning on my RSS feed from Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day. The experts there tell us that frigorific is an adjective meaning : causing cold : chilling. This morning it is 14 degrees here in New York City — definitely frigorifi...

Zooborns.com is announcing today the birth of baby Arani to aardvark mom Raachael. The happy event is reported by the Detroit Zoo, one of dozens of zoos and aquariums around the world participating in ZooBorns.com. ZooBorns.com brilliantly clusters the cuteness of baby animals with timely events (th...

The New York Times has an article today surveying the e-book landscape, and the news is generally that screen reading is coming into its own. Titled Turning Page, E-Books Start to Take Hold , the report begins: Could book lovers finally be willing to switch from paper to pixels? For a decade, consum...

For a decade, I have argued that a golden age is dawning because of the internet. My reasoning has been that the internet will cause the world population to become educated, and thereby create an engine of individual liberty that no terrorist or tyrant could push back. Michael S Malone has an essay ...