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High-quality internet access shouldn’t be restricted to those who can 'pay to play.' Unfortunately, by allowing ISPs to preferentially charge and premium price access, that’s what will happen, and public libraries -- and the communities we serve -- will be the ones to lose.
If an “American Idol” also-ran can have his own page on the online encyclopedia, is there no limit? Apparently there is, as some people find out the hard way.
Useful cautionary tale about crowdsourcing. Who your crowd is matters!
The world of business is always changing. Observer reports the the most current business news & events from all over the world.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have commanded considerable public attention due to their sudden rise and disruptive potential. But there are no robust, pub
Open data initiatives may hold much promise and value, but more attention is needed on how these projects are developing as complex socio-technical systems. Rob Kitchin elaborates on four specific …
Sebastian Thrun, godfather of the massive open online course, has quietly spread a plastic tarp on the floor, nudged his most famous educational...
When it comes to gender, citation statistics are not as accurate as some may think.
"Boy, you sure have a lot of apps on your phone." "Well, it's my …
Big data is all the rage. Its proponents tout the use of sophisticated analytics to mine large data sets for insight as the solution to many of our society’s pr
As more and more business decisions are being made by looking at the data collected from our lives, what happens to the people who are generating no data at all?
Some of the limericks in the comments are AWESOME.
Prisoners serving long sentences have never been online. This is what they think it's like.
Wikipedia is virtually uncontested as an instrumental conduit for global knowledge exchange. But who is creating and maintaining this knowledge and does it adequately reflect the diversity of exper…