It’s a Free Country, so why can’t I pick the technology I use in the office?

At the office, you’ve got a sluggish computer running aging software, and the email system routinely badgers you to delete messages after you blow through the storage limits set by your IT department. Searching your company’s internal Web site feels [...]

You don’t know why people tweet? This guy doesn’t know either. And i’m still not sure what’s the point.
The Case Against Twitter
In summation, like your beloved pet rock, Twitter is useful only in your imagination.
Despite this, I can’t begin to add up how many times, as a member of the media, [...]

Le journalisme est un domaine reposant en très grande partie sur le partage et la diffusion de l’information, il est donc facile de s’imaginer que le web 2.0 l’influençera. L’étape des prévisions théoriques est déjà terminée et les effets sont bien réels. Ce nouveau paradigme n’a pas fini de fortement remodeler l’environnement journalistique tel que [...]

Le « Web 2.0 » désigne la vision du web qui inclut le concept de réseau d’usagers à tout les niveaux;

la collaboration communautaire entre utilisateurs et concepteurs
le design axé sur l’utilisateur et ce qu’il apporte
l’importance des données et de leur circulation

Une révolution?
Bien que le terme pourrait laisser croire à une révolution technologique, il s’agit plutôt [...]

Phones are so last decade, expressing your griefs in public gets more attention and that’s not a good thing for a company’s image. The ease of communication of social networks combined with something bad to say about a product/service is a really powerful weapon to wield in today’s world. For now those events are rare [...]

Mint CEO Aaron Patzer on Startups from Techcrunch on Vimeo.
Mint CEO Aaron Patzer talks with entrepreneurs at a JuicePitcher event about the history of his startup, Mint. Vator.tv recorded the video

“I think we’re in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven’t seen since Greek civilization,” she says. For Lunsford, technology isn’t killing our ability to write. It’s reviving it—and pushing our literacy in bold new directions.
The first thing she found is that young people today write far more than any [...]

Web technology is poised to shake universities, the way it rocked newspapers and the music industry—with convenient, cheaper alternatives.

“The economics of traditional schooling are so out of whack that there is an opening for new players,” says Fred Fransen, executive director of the Center for Excellence in Higher Education, which helps donors more effectively give [...]