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NYTimes article on prognostications about Internet futures. The survey (Pew Internet Life) results solidly confirm what media watchers may already know (and perhaps fear): that the Internet and the rise of the blogger are expected to drive greater change in the news media and publishing industries than in any other sector of society. Internet specialists also expect broad changes in ...

As David Collin said,  blogging is set to become the biggest pastime in the US.  8 million say they have online diarys and 32 millon say they read them. Wikkis are communally created web pages while blogs are personal based web pages  So says the Pew Internet and American Life Project.  Also read ,"We the Media", by Dan Gilmor, a ...

Here is a post about the advent of conference name tags that are smart.  They come in a few technology flavors such as RFID or Bluetooth.  The post covers the future as this technology permeates society. 

From the NYTimes: Google, the operator of the world’s most popular Internet search service, plans to announce an agreement today with some of the nation’s leading research libraries and Oxford University to begin converting their holdings into digital files that would be freely searchable over the Web…. "Within two decades, most of the world’s knowledge will be digitized and available, ...