Category Archives: Information Society

Teens and social networking

Posted on May 17, 2009 by Tryggvi Thayer

Social networking researcher danah boyd (yes, she likes to have it without caps) has shared some questions that she has gotten from people on US teenagers and their use of social networking sites and her responses. Her very short and … Continue reading →

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Wolfram|Alpha “computational knowledge engine”

Posted on May 15, 2009 by Tryggvi Thayer

For people that may have missed this despite all of the recent buzz, the Wolfram|Alpha “computational knowledge engine” is supposed to be launched sometime this month (May, 2009). Wolfram|Alpha is a search engine that will take various types of input … Continue reading →

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Encyclopedia Britannica will open up – just a little bit.

Posted on January 25, 2009 by Tryggvi Thayer

Encyclopedia Britannica (EB) seems to have decided that the general public might just be a useful resource for gathering the knowledge of the world. Several years ago they were none too happy with Nature’s evidence-based claim that Wikipedia was no … Continue reading →

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“Digital Youth Project” – Youth and knowledge development networks

Posted on December 30, 2008 by Tryggvi Thayer

The MacArthur Foundation has published a report on the “Digital Youth Project”. This is a fascinating report on the findings of a research project that looked at young people’s informal use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and what they … Continue reading →

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Is the mobile web all good?

Posted on July 26, 2008 by Tryggvi Thayer

The BBC News site ran an article yesterday about the spread of the mobile web. Nothing surprising about that, it is the big buzz these days. I guess what is noteworthy now is that the “big” corporations (in this case … Continue reading →

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References for Millennium Declaration Analysis Series

Posted on April 5, 2008 by Tryggvi Thayer

I have received several requests to post references referred to in my so-called “Millennium Declaration Analysis Series” which I link to in the left margin of the main page of this blog. These lengthy articles are drafts that I produced … Continue reading →

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