Touchy touch-sensitive gadgets
I have an LG Chocolate phone, an iPod,a laptop with a touchpad, and a Nintendo DS, all of which are touch-sensitive. But then the term “touch-sensitive” is misleading. The devices […]
Category Archives: being digital
About cyberspace, games, digital life, Second Life, etc.
Trent Reznor is god of digital music
A huge fan of Trent Reznor, I was extremely proud that Nine Inch Nails’ Ghosts I-IV was the best-selling CC-licensed Mp3 album of 2008, topping Amazon charts even though it […]
Social networking in enterprises
Andrew McAfee of HBS was the speaker at today’s Berkman luncheon series, talking about Enterprise 2.0, which he explains as being the phenomenon in which companies incorporate “community” features into […]
Content Ownership in the Age of Cloud Computing
It really disturbs me that services like Google and Facebook are trying to own content hosted on their sites. Until a couple years ago, I didn’t see Google as a […]
Arrest of Korean Blogger Rekindles Debates of Freedom of Speech on Web
His screen name was Minerva, and he wrote on Agora, an online forum hosted by Daum, one of Korea’s top Internet portals. In September last year, he predicted that the […]
Music without intermediaries
Did “video kill the radio star“? Record labels may be dying, but music is thriving. People have easier access to more music– more than they can listen to in a […]
The Death of TV (as we know it)
What is TV? Or rather, what is watching TV? One thing for certain is that TV– while it is still a media, is no longer a medium. I watch all […]
The Future of Media?
For the new year I feel obliged to write about something semi-serious, or rather something professional, something other than superficial things like astrology or shopping, both of which have important […]
D. Yvette Wohn 