Tawny Sverdlin's blog
What Now?: In the Absence of the Ivory Tower
About this time of year, recent graduates around the world are feeling a void of activity in the absence of classes. Regardless of what we have graduated from, whether it be a liberal arts undergraduate degree or Law school, the future seems way too unplanned. read more »
ScanCafe to the Rescue
Sam Allen, CEO of ScanCafe ScanCafe , commissioned a study to discover how many photographs are decaying in shoe boxes in America. He discovered that there are about 550 billion analog photographs in The United States. Most people do not realize that their print photographs are disintegrating before their very eyes. read more »
Losing Our Edge in Social Media
According to the Guardian younger social networking users are being chased away by their 25-to-34-year-old counterparts who are making social networks as uncool as jam band music or Garrison Keiller. read more »
Twitter: Now Coming to Burning Man.
The first time I arrived at Burning Man (http://www.burningman.com/) in 2002 I was nineteen years old, exhausted from the ten hour drive and desperate to call my mother to tell her I wasn't dead. At the urging of a friend back home I had hastily bought a ticket and procured a ride with another girl all the way from Los Angeles to Nevada. read more »
Removing Search Engine Branding
Michael Kordahi, a Microsoft employee, built BlindSearch to act as a "search engine taste test". The project is separate from his professional career and intends to see how users perceive results differently when search engine branding is removed. read more »
Here in California the Governator Wants Digital Textbooks
Even with all of the new technology that links far-flung campuses or teaches with games and podcasts, most classrooms still use mid-15th century technology: printed books — but maybe not for long. read more »
