Posts Tagged with ‘NYT’

I found a really insightful essay in the New York Times by Daniel Coleman. The article deals with online behavior and in particular "flaming" before thinking in online communication venues. After all, we have all been exposed to rude and antisocial behavior from other people since we first ventured here.
In fact, offensive messages seem to plague every dialogue we enter into, and often comments that are not meant to be offensive can easily be taken badly. The "flaming" phenomena actually [...]

In an article by Michel Marriot I learned of an innovative and rather fantastic new toy that incorporates the most advanced technology. A robotics company called WowWee plans to release a mass produced functional ornithopter (a device that flies like a bird). The device is a radio controlled toy that mechanically flaps its Mylar wings and flies as a bird does. This is the latest and greatest in a whole line of mechanical marvels to be released this year.
The inspiration for [...]

I Predict News Junkies And Plenty Of Them! 
U.S. teachers are utilizing Internet news more than any other source in presenting news to their students. Fifty seven percent of teachers use Internet based news. A study based on news use in the classroom surveyed 1,262 teachers in grades 5-12 in the fall of 2006. The study was released Monday by the Carnegie-Knight Task Force on the Future of Journalism Education.
These numbers compare to 31 percent teacher use of television news and 28 [...]

The New York Times is doing it. The Financial Times is doing it. A great number of other reputable newspapers are doing it. What am I speaking of? Blogging.
David Pogue of NYT fame (Circuits writer) regularly submits items to Pogue’s Posts, a collection of informal writeups about stuff not quite column-worthy or stuff that didn’t make it past the editor or the author just felt like jotting down and seeing what the public had to say in response. The [...]

We can definitely say that online video advertising marketplace booms. During the last year the market surged 82.2%. eMarketerpredictsthat in 2007 online video ad spending will grow 89% faster than last year and will reach $775 million. These bright prospects are supported by the key metric releasedby online video solutions provider Klipmart: online video ads are four times more efficient than any other online ads and can even compete with traditional TV advertising.
So new investments into online video marketplace do [...]