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Does Google Make Us Stupid?

By Ashley Wollam ⋅ February 20, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Does Google Make Us Stupid? Originally put forth by Nicholas Carr in the July/August 2008 issue of The Atlantic, this idea received a rebuttal one year later by Jamais Casico (“Get Smarter“) in that same publication. The next chapter in this debate is being written by experts responding to the Pew Research Center (“Does Google [...]

Capitalist 2.0

By Ashley Wollam ⋅ February 16, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

“80 to 90% of user-generated content on the web, including comments and questions, is created by less than 10% of web users,” according to Rubicon, a strategy and marketing consultancy [1]. The findings included in their most recent report must seem a breath of fresh air to  Jack Nielson, who predicted somewhat similar numbers two [...]

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