Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Brain-training games 'do more harm than good' - Telegraph

Brain-training games 'do more harm than good' - Telegraph

The Great Debate » Debate Archive » First 100 Days: Harness the genie of citizen engagement | The Great Debate |

The Great Debate » Debate Archive » First 100 Days: Harness the genie of citizen engagement | The Great Debate |: "There are lots of Internet-enabled ways to engage America, from policy wikis, citizen juries, deliberative polling, ideation contests, and virtual town halls. I call one of the most promising the digital brainstorm. This is an online way to bring together policy officials and citizens in a real-time, moderated session, to exchange ideas and identify new policy issues and strategies and to mobilize the citizenry."

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Elgan: Here comes the e-book revolution

Elgan: Here comes the e-book revolution
From the article: If you'd like to get a stark view of the relative economics of electronic vs. paper newspapers, check out a blog post on the Silicon Valley Insider. The blog did the math and determined that the New York Times could buy every single subscriber an Amazon Kindle e-book reader, and it would still cost them half as much as it will cost them to send paper newspapers for just one year.