Monthly Archives: January 2011

Wired magazine offers a new article from Nicholas Carr claiming that heavy web experiences results in specific cognitive challenges. The Internet is an interruption system. It seizes our attention only to scramble it. There’s the problem of hypertext and the … Continue reading →

As I understand the present research position, the notion of learning styles lacks much empirical support. I agree. Having said this, I defy my own commitment to “the literature” in noting that I think I have  learning style that must be … Continue reading →

Family Shield is a free filtering service provided by OpenDNS. I use OpenDNS and like the concept so I encourage others to take a look at Family Shield (or also use OpenDNS). Actually, I would be hard pressed to explain … Continue reading →

CNN interview with Nicholas Carr. Pushing a new book (but who isn’t). See also Carr’s Atlantic Monthly article – Is Google Making Is Stupid?

Quora is attempting to create a social answer service (I like this description and I think it is original).  It seems similar to Mahalo to me, but the approach taken would appear to draw in more contributors (perhaps of varying … Continue reading →

iOS4 (that is the new operating system for the iphone and iPad Touch) is here. Here are the review and basic install instructions from ReadWriteWeb.