Clay Shirky and Cognitive Surplus: the shared, online work we do with our spare brain cycles. His TED Talk looks at how we’re building a better, more cooperative world.

The Guardian reviews the book and Wired converses on the subject: the Great Spare-Time Revolution.

archive and visual interface

The project aims to collect and analyze content from a variety of sources to display trends in word usage. Interesting.

Report, Explore, Share

NowPublic is a multimedia online news magazine where you can make, break, shape, and share international news as it happens. A unique hybrid of content, context and conversation. Here, you participate in the news-making process.

life on the virtual frontier

From PBS FRONTLINE, a report on the digital revolution and how it’s changing our lives.

Within a single generation, digital media and the World Wide Web have transformed virtually every aspect of modern culture, from the way we learn and work to the ways in which we socialize and even conduct war. But is the technology moving faster than we can adapt to it? And is our 24/7 wired world causing us to lose as much as we’ve gained?

Living Faster, Relationships, Waging War, Virtual Worlds and Learning Web Exclusives go further, from iPods to drone attacks to how Google saved a school. 

From this lover of FRONTLINE, consider me really looking forward to my (digital) weekend.