These days, there is a lot of talk about the web generation, or Google generation, and their lack of ability to focus on any one thing in particular for too long. In fact, I have read articles that say people who grew up this way have their brains wired differently than people who did not!
Tagged: continuous partial attention span, efficiency, tasks management, time management
Lately I have been wondering what the implications are of having all this information so readily available and easily accessible through Google. Of course, I can remember a time when life wasn’t like this. But for the so called "Google Generation," they have never known life to be any different. They are
Tagged: Education 2.0, Google Generation, information overload
So by now, we have all heard of Web 2.0, right? In case you haven’t, Wiktionary defines it as "The second generation of the World Wide Web, especially the movement away from static web pages to dynamic and shareable content and social networking" http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Web_2.0 For instance, the tools of Web 2.0 include sites like
Tagged: nature network, oceans 2.0, open notebook, open-access journal, openwetware, science 2.0, web 2.0
The goal of today’s post is to provide you with some information on writing contracts and copyright law, as a freelancer. I recently read a great book by Michelle Goodman entitled "My So-called Freelance Life". Much of the information I am providing here is contained in Chapter 12 of her book, but I thought it
Tagged: contracts, copyleft, copyright, freelancing, Michelle Goodman, music law