Don't blame the screens. It's not that kids are obsessed with technology, argues danah boyd in her piece for The New York Times. It's that they're addicted to interaction with their friends. And rather than letting them roam, she says, we're raising them in captivity.
Dissing digital disintermediation. The Internet in many ways has cut out the middle man, allowing creatives to reach huge audiences without relying on old-school institutions. Or has it?Leora Kornfeld and a dissatisfied student discuss.
Deciding the future of the Internet. The online experience is changing rapidly, and not necessarily for the better, explains Jonathan Zittrain in this Big Think video. Your classic web surfing session where "there's lots of baskets with eggs all over the place and by just clicking on a link you can visit that new basket and not even feel the burdens of the journey," likely won't be the norm in a less open, app-driven future.
Learning from Ebola.William Fisher and Quentin Palfrey assert in their post for IP Watch that there are steps we can take to better prepare for the next outbreak and save lives, including improving incentives for R&D, greater coordination and collaboration among agencies, and stockpiling effective drugs and vaccines.
Tend your bridges. When Reddit fired a popular moderator -- one of the few employees who interacted with the online community regularly -- "her departure was seen not just as a loss but as a betrayal, as if RedditCo thinks it needs no bridges," explains David Weinbergerin this article he co-wrote for the Harvard Business Review.
WATCH: An intern explains Internet Monitor
In this new video, intern Elizabeth Gillis explores Berkman's Internet Monitor project and describes why you should check it out, too.
LISTEN: Fiber City
Why are over 450 towns in the US building their own high speed Internet networks?
On this week's show we talk about municipal fiber: what it is, why it matters, who's doing it and how. And we learn what happens when municipal utilities and companies compete to provide local Internet service.
