Northwestern University

There’s been an undercurrent of paradox kicking up dust in my otherwise clinical views on technology. I've tried to suppress it, but it keeps bubbling to the surface. I consider myself not only pro-technology, but obsessed with it, and someone who is neither afraid of the future nor the technology ...

Social networking is the Web 2.0 darling. It's hard to imagine that Facebook didn't exist just six years ago and Twitter only four. Not to mention that Facebook founder, 26-year-old Mark Zuckerberg, recently surpassed Apple's Steve Jobs as well as media mogul Rupert Murdoch on the Forbes US rich list. ...

Eamonn Byrne from the World Association of newspapers asked the panel at the last session of this congress: Is partnering with a search engine a good idea?The media industry have two main issues with Google. (1) They believe that Google is unfairly using and profiting off publisher's content. Hence the ...