Expert Sitings: Linda Stone

edge.org/archive.html Iconoclastic writer-thinker John Brockman started the Edge Foundation in 1988. His bimonthly publication, Edge, can be read online or as an e-mail. It features interviews, essays, and commentary by today’’s great science and technology thinkers. kk.org/cooltools Cool Tools is a blog written by Wired cofounder Kevin Kelly and his readers. Its purpose is to ...

edge.org/archive.html

Iconoclastic writer-thinker John Brockman started the Edge Foundation in 1988. His bimonthly publication, Edge, can be read online or as an e-mail. It features interviews, essays, and commentary by today’’s great science and technology thinkers.

kk.org/cooltools

Cool Tools is a blog written by Wired cofounder Kevin Kelly and his readers. Its purpose is to provide product reviews of everything — literally — from ordinary items such as Scotch tape, to oddball products like the “BananaBunker,” a carrying case for bananas. The site even reviews how effectively nonprofits are performing in the developing world.

allthingsd.com

All Things Digital, a site owned by Dow Jones, is one of my most trusted sources for news on technology, the Internet, and the media. It combines journalistic forms — blogs, columns, traditional news stories — to cover topics ranging from digital music taxes to whether your home Wi-Fi network should be open to all.

lifehacker.com

Lifehacker is a blog that provides readers with useful technology tricks, tips, and downloads. Past posts have helped readers make their Xbox 360 run more quietly by installing a $25 whisper-quiet fan and provided tips on how best to sell one’s car on the Internet.

Linda Stone is a writer, speaker, and technology consultant. She spent 20 years as a senior executive in the high-tech industry at firms including Apple and Microsoft. She was corporate vice president and founder and director of the Virtual Worlds Group at Microsoft Research, where she pioneered social interaction and virtual communities on the Internet. Her Web site is lindastone.net.

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