A reader of Google Blogoscoped reveals that Google briefly posted a “confidential” video detailing its plans to compete with Facebook. Google’s recent big social effort is called Mocha-Mocha (or Mocka-Mocka?), and will become the infrastructure for all social stuff across all of their applications. As a part of this, a new feature called Activity Streams…
Pew Research Center Public interest in news has changed slightly over the last two decades, but in a manner that suggests no meaningful trend. The average reading for the Pew News Interest Index did slip during the 1990s from 30% to 23%, a seemingly noteworthy decrease that represents nearly a fourth of the original level.…
Clive Thompon is not writing from the same world where I live. Thirty-six hours? How in god’s name had I managed to spend almost four hours a day inside this game? I should point out that this was not the only game I’d been playing during that time. I’d also been hip-deep in BioShock and…
My five-year-old sat and listened for over an hour while I read the first chapter of Gregor the Overlander and the first chapter of The Hobbit. Earlier that day she had found an old beat-up costume jewelry ring that another kid on the playground said he found in a stream. When the park time was…