New Year's Resolutions

Read about the most life-enhancing New Year's Resolutions.
What have you changed your mind about? Why?

View the edge annual question - 2008.

Digital Footprints

Internet users are becoming more aware of their digital footprints states a new study by Pew Internet & American Life Project . But most of them are not concerned about the amount of personal data available online.

And of course this raises questions such as: how much of personal data should be available online? Do we need total individual transparency for digitally managing our indentities? Which measures can be taken to avoid open access to our personal data?

More information (in German) at ORF.science.

Cyberscience

"Cyberscience - it is already taking place - will be different from traditional science. "

Michael Nentwich, director of the Institute of Technology Assessment at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, describes and analyses in his book the usage of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) in science.

This book not only draws a portrait of "Research in the Age of the Internet", but also assesses the various impacts of the New Media on academic activity and discusses the impacts for future research policies.

So we`ve already got some answers to the questions I posed in my previous article.
But the digital world is a rapidly changing one. Isn`t it? ;-)

Science in a Digital World

In this respect the following questions arise:

• In which ways are scientists influenced by the so-called digital world?

• How do they respond to this digital world in general? Fears and expectations?

• Do they change their modes of communication with other scientists? If so, for what reasons and how?

• Which digital techniques of communication have already become part of their daily routine? Why?

• What do they consider benefits derived from the digital world?

• Do online tools meet their expectations?
  

Lucky Day

07.07.2007 was supposed to be people's lucky day.

LIVE EARTH The concerts for a climate in crisis took place.

World Database of Happiness

What makes human beings happy? Are there any differences according cultural diversity?

Ruut Veenhoven, professor of social conditions for happiness at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, developed the World Database of Happiness - an ongoing register of scientific research on the subjective enjoyment of life.

More...

Who are the happiest people in Europe?
"It's grimmer down south" states The Economist.

Internet and Personality

At the moment I am reading this book on Internet and personality.

It deals with a broad spectrum of issues on personality features and the different types of using the Internet.