Well, apparently there’s a new reason to fret about social networks. Will they eliminate teen-agers’ incentive, and opportunity, to grow up? “For all the discussion Facebook has prompted, its most profound impact may be to alter, even obliterate, conventional notions of the past, to change the way […]
New York Times
The assumptions and conventions of today are grinding against those of the day before yesterday. All that’s needed now is somehow to tie in the AIG bonuses….. The use of BlackBerrys and iPhones by jurors gathering and sending out information about cases is wreaking havoc on trials around the country, […]
Why deliberate, or talk, when you can tweet? [NYT]
New York Times, March 12, 2009: Some economists and newspaper executives say it is only a matter of time — and probably not much time at that — before some major American city is left with no prominent local newspaper at all. via For Papers, a Downsizing Trickle Becomes […]