From M/C Journal, Greg Shapley (UTS): The Re-Wiring of History; and Jina Huh and Mark S. Ackerman (Michigan): Obsolescence: Uncovering Values in Technology Use. Information Overload: In the Google Age, media literacy is crucial — and in short supply. Seth Hettena reviews Planet Google: One Company’s Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know by Randall Stross. What today’s students do not realize is that what Google provides is sometimes fact and oftentimes opinion — but never answers. An interview with Scott Rosenberg, author of Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters. Blogs, Twitter and Facebook are supposedly cheapening language and tarnishing our time, but the fact is we are all reading and writing much more than we used to. A review of Ben Mezrich’s The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal (and more and more and more and more and more and more and more). From PopMatters, both Twitter and Facebook are attempts to inject organic humanity into the cold, artificial realm of networking technologies; and in an age where Twitter and Google seem to be taking over the world, how do people communicate information in a meaningful and memorable manner?
