By the time of the 2001 recession, median income was lagging behind pretty badly. If we’re going to stick with Gallic labeling, the years between 1982 and 2001 were the vingt troublantes: By the end of 2011, things had become much worse in two ways. Between 1981 and 2001 the economy generated plenty of low-paying jobs. MORE >>

In the spring of 2001, I was finishing up the final chapter of my second book, Emergence: The Connected Lives Of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software. Emergence was not explicitly a book about politics or social movements, but I wanted to end it with a hint of those possibilities. That is the iconography of an earlier model of protest. Books MORE >>

Hailed as the ‘hole-in-the-wall hero’, few question his questionable research or even more questionable recommendations. As Arora (2010) points out, there is little real independent evidence, other than that provided by HiWEL itself and one must always question research funded by those who would benefit from a positive outcome. MORE >>

This was the one therapy he abhorred because of its “dubious validity” (Dryden & Ellis, in Dobson, 2001: 331). Bertrand Russell's famous dictum "I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. Sharpley, C. 1984). Sharpley C.F. 1987). 34, No. 1: 103-107,105. MORE >>

He asks a simple question, ‘ How do we really use the web ?’ He recommends evidence gathering with a camcorder and facilitator who asks questions and gives tasks, especially ‘Get it’ tasks where you probe the user for their understanding of the point of the experience, how it works and how it is organised. Krug hates unnecessary noise. MORE >>