 | Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog |  01-Jun-2010 12:01 AM |
| FT on Shallows Christopher Caldwell reviews The Shallows in the Financial Times: The subtitle of Nicholas Carr?s The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains leads one to expect a polemic in the tradition of those published in the 1950s about how rock ?n? roll was corrupting the nation?s youth; or in the 1970s about how television was turning kids into idiots; or in the 1990s about the sociopathology o [..] |
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| Thoughts from Kansas | 01-Jun-2010 2:35 AM |
| Southerners are crazy Daily Kos asks 1200 voters:
Most astronomers believe the universe formed about 13.7 billion years ago in a massive event called the Big Bang. Do you think that's about right or do think the universe was created much more recently?
Saints be praised, 62% of the public accepts the Big Bang and a 13.7 billion year old universe. Democrats are the most positive, wi [..] |
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| Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog | 01-Jun-2010 6:52 AM |
| You can thank Lee de Forest for this Gizmodo has a brief excerpt from The Shallows in which I describe the instrumental, but now largely forgotten, role that the inventor Lee de Forest played in the launching of our electronic age: Our modern media spring from a common source, an invention that is rarely mentioned today but that had as decisive a role in shaping society as the internal combustion engine or the incandescent lightbulb. [..] |
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| ProBlogger Blog Tips | 01-Jun-2010 9:18 AM |
| 4 Reasons to Add a Podcast to Your Blog A Guest Post by Bradford Shimp from All Business Answers
A few months ago, I started a podcast on my blog. It was a bit of a counter-intuitive move for me, since I am generally the shy guy in the room. It has turned out to be great for me personally and for my blog. It [...]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger.
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