Sorin Adam Matei
Analysis, research, maps, and essays from Sorin Adam Matei.
On the Super Tuesday (March 1, 2016) Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Ted Cruz, Bernard Sanders et al. will do the most important battle of the primary season. Two heavyweight communicators, one American (Alex Heffner) and the other French (Joseph Daniel), will discuss…
Peter Ludlow’s (aka Urizenus Sklar) adventures in cyberspace, especially in what is now known as the Metaverse, are legendary and the stuff of legend. His latest book, coming up in October, which I had the privilege to read as a pre-print manuscript,…
By Susan Huelsing Sarapin Submitted on October 22, 2006 to the On-Line Interaction and Facilitation Seminar, Fall 2006, Purdue University Dr. Sorin A. Matei via the I Think Blog (http://www.matei.org/ithink) Introduction Today, people all over the world are connected, or “tethered†(Turkle,…
… as loud by any other spelling… SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0) – Google (Research) is getting lambasted online for its new policy of accommodating China’s Internet-censorship rules. But with its new Chinese search engine, Google.cn, Google isn’t living up to its reputation…
Some of you may know Ray Kurweil‘s work. He’s most famous for his invention of speech recognition machines, as well as authoring the book “The Age of Spiritual Machines”. He recently released a new book: “The Singularity is Near” which develops the…
Nielsen made the point a while back (1996) that writing on the web should be chunky, a thing that is generally known, but he added, a thing we are only dimly aware of, that the inverted pyramid convention still applies to this…
The web is for stories, says Hypergene, but not for individuals stories. It is for networked stories. They propose an “Amazon-style” storytelling process, where the articles are embedded in the flow of similar stories that surround them and are displayed according to…