Do Videogames Cause Stress in Kids? It’s Complicated
Last September at Stanford’s Medicine X, a conference on the future of medicine and emerging technologies, some of the most…
Reducing the Fear of Innovation (and Failure) at City Halls
Sam Jacoby, a master’s student in the High-Low Tech research group at the MIT Media Lab, contributed to this report.…
E-Books and Self-Publishing Roundup, March 14, 2013
1. Pay-as-you-read e-bookselling won’t make it off the shelves (ReadWrite) 2. Apple CEO Cook ordered to testify in e-books case…
Daily Must Reads, March 14, 2013
1. Google Reader to shut down July 1 (The Verge) 2. Aaron Swartz lawyers accuse prosecutor of misconduct (Huffington Post)…
Self-Publishing Takes Center Stage at the San Francisco Writers Conference
The San Francisco Writers Conference has always been strong on self-publishing, and this year the conference fully embraced the topic…
Daily Must Reads, March 13, 2013
1. New Report: Teens and Technology (Pew Internet) 2. Feds issue rules for social media and small screen ads (PaidContent.org)…
Will Mobile Education Arrive in the Developing World?
In developing countries, where smartphones and dependable cellular networks are still scarce, it’s been difficult to gauge the real impact…
Tweets vs. Smoke Signals: How to Follow the Papal #Conclave
ROME – If you’re on Twitter, #conclave has been one of the best places to follow news about the next…
How Can the Media Catch More Manipulated Photos, Videos?
Sam Stewart is researching the best new tools to detect photo manipulation. Photo: Steve Castillo News visuals have always possessed…
Journalism and Digital Education Roundup, March 12, 2013
1. A proposed Texas law promotes correcting incorrect news, online and off (Nieman) 2. MOOCs and assessments and makers, oh…