- Thought Limited By Bandwidth Performance – After listening to Nick Carr discuss on several media outlets the effect of online reading and information absorption on the way we think and concentrate, the post from Network Performance Daily’s Brian Boyko offers a nice counterpoint.
- Is Google Making Us Stupid? – The article should be titled, “Is online changing the way we think?” The article title is more to grab eyes of readers as they scroll down the screen, and distracts from what I think is otherwise an excellent read. Nick Carr in the Atlantic Monthly provides a really good look and more a beginning for a wider discussion on how the Internet is changing the way we get, process, and retain information. In this instant-gratification culture that’s only one click away, have we lost the patience for books?
- Web words baffle the blogosphere - Rather than saying that web activities are destroying our cognitive capabilities, I would argue it’s turning the English language into gibberish. Web words have moved us beyond proactive paradigm shifts to ‘vlogs’ and worrying about ‘netiquette’. Last year, YouGov and Lulu declared ‘folksonomy’ as the word most likely to make web users “wince, shudder or want to bang your head on the keyboard”.
- Unified Communications in the Enterprise – Network World takes a 2-part look at Unified Communications (UC) adoption and attitudes within the enterprise. If you are interested in UC, this is a decent overview of the current state (Pt. 1 & 2).
Tags: bandwidth, brian boyko, Google, netiquette, nick carr, unified communications
