Now on J-Source: Covering Pakistan, Your brain on the Internet
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homeless - and a looming food crisis - the floods in Pakistan is an
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How is the Internet
changing the way you think?
Every year for the past 13 years, John
Brockman, founder of online publication Edge, poses a question to a
diverse group of movers and shakers. In an essay for Neiman Reports -
Harvard's annual exploration of journalism - Brockman explains what
makes a good question and gives some of the responses to this year's
question: "How is the Internet changing the way you think?"
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create online communities. A report on who's doing it right - and who's
doing it wrong. This week we feature Rodney Barnes' story from the
spring issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism.
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