Named as Time Magazine's 2008 listing of the 100 Most Influential People in The World , Jeff Han is one of the main developers of "...

While much has been attributed to Tim Berners-Lee as the father of the Internet, Vancouver-based fiction writer William Gibson is actually b...

IFLA 2010 has come and gone. Although I did not go, the presentations are now online, and some are outstanding. Richard Wallis, Technol...

The rise of social media sites, such as Facebook and Digg, has presented publishers with an opportunity for self promotion that has never b...

Since the time of Alvin Toffler , there have always been futurists who predict the paradigm shifts of technology and society. Recently, Chr...

The application of information and communications technology (ICT) to enable and empower community processes, the goal of Community Informat...

The Web of Things mean different things to different people. Some argue that the Web of Things will be the crucial ingredient for the real...

The definition of Web 3.0 is as elusive as it gets. However, it's getting much clearer than it was one year ago. Many of the technolo...

"You don't get to a 500 million friends without making a few enemies." With those epic words, the tone has been set for this w...

In a recent Atlantic Monthly article, Michael Hirschorn proposes in Closing the Digital Frontier that we are close to an era of the "d...

Although Read Write Web calls it the ongoing game of cat and mouse between China and Google , in my opinion, this hearkens back to the long...

In a recent article in the Atlantic Monthly , Google is intriguingly portrayed as both the destroyer and saviour of the news industry. Cer...

Henry Jenkins is the creator of the Comparative Media Studies (CMS) graduate program at MIT, and can be considered an innovator in digital ...

One year after the release of Wolfram Alpha , the hoopla has come and gone. It just seems as if the world wasn't quite ready for Wolfra...

William Patry, author of Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars and blogger on the Patry Copyright Blog , poses some interesting food for thou...