Dan Rather’s lawsuit against CBS isback in the news*. The gist of the suit is Rather’s claim that the network allowed political considerations (over his
Category: Ideas
Notification on your Blackberry
A textbook perfect example of notification appeared on the front page of the NYT business section today. Geraldine Fabrikant tells the story of Sallie Krawcheck’s
Where Does the Information Go? Preserving a Sense of History
In the last few days I’ve read a number of blog posts and letters to the editor in which the writers expressed discomfort (a kind
The Intellectual World as Magazine Shop
Just back from “Family Weekend” at MIT (very well done, BTW) and catching up on things. The following appeared in the American Sociological Association‘s newsletter
Silence on the Soc of Info Front
Week’s worth of silence here was due to a quick trip to Paris in the company of my partner, Gillian Hadfield, who was talking at
Calibrating Blog Traffic Tracking
A classic information illusion arises on the net: the conflation of a click with a look with a read. It’s easy to track how many
