For those who don’t know – Inishturkbeg is a private island off the West Coast of Ireland. Last year they held their first annual Inishturkbeg Artists’ Week.
This February 2010, the pieces will beo n display in a London gallery and one piece from each artist will be donated to the island for future visitors to enjoy.

In 2009, the internet's share of UK ad spend rose by the amount that newspapers lost. Coincidence?

As soon as this week, Google might be rolling out a "Twitter-killer" feature for Gmail users, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.

Gmail users can currently broadcast status messages via the Google Talk feature. The main difference between the current offering and the new feature is that status messages aren't available in a timeline format. With the new "Twitter clone," they will be.

Last week Edelman published its tenth annual Trust Barometer study. One of the more juicy statistics that Advertising Age and others noted is that trust in peers surprisingly dropped dramatically from 47% to 27%.

Using its vast compendium of voice and translation data, Google appears to be working toward a semi-real-time, or "speech-to-speech," translation technology for future phone models, according to The Times UK.

If you were to look at Social Media the United States and many other parts of the world, you would believe that the world of Social Media was flat, dominated by social continents including Facebook, Twitter, blogs, YouTube, and Flickr. As we zoom in, we visualize other established and emerging social services that depict provinces and outlying settlements of our social atlas.

For decades, educators have been scrambling to find better ways to prepare students for the real world. It began with the mildly apocalyptic government report, A Nation at Risk, which warned that an outdated school system was unwittingly sabotaging America’s economic superiority. Year after year, major educational organizations would echo the report’s call with threats of dire consequences and pleas for sweeping reform, from the U.S. Department of Labor to the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.

Audits of the U.S. educational system have revealed that the highest hurdle to adopting skills-based teaching practices is the lack of an easily implementable curriculum.

Enter social video games as a solution.

Featuring humorous – if fictional – anecdotes and tips from the POTUS, this graphic also blends real info about hotspots the First Family has hit up in four major U.S. cities.

Perhaps one day, we'll be able to talk Obama (or one of his predecessors) into sharing the minutiae of his nightlife with the public. How do you think the Secret Service would feel about that?

According the Journalism School at Columbia University, there are certain skills all journalists should have when it comes to social media.

Kudos to LinkedIn for allowing us to take more control over the look and feel of our profiles.

The BBC’s new R&DTV is a pilot show built for the Internet era, and designed to be shareable, remix-able and redistributed.

Is this the future of the media? Given a set of strict editorial guidelines could robots do the job of Fleet Street's finest… or would some decisions still not compute?

To accompany a major series on the BBC about the impact of the web, Rajan Malhotra, assistant producer on the Virtual Revolution, writes about how it is changing politics.

People Hopper is a new application for Orkut that lets you take your profile image and 'morph' it into your friend's–using publicly available images from other Orkut users along the way. It is a fun app that also allows you to make new connections–since the images that show in your Hopper all come from people who have chosen to make their profiles public, you can click through to learn more about them and reach out to them. You can also morph one friend into another. No computer graphics are used to generate the path.

Location sharing social network Foursquare saw traffic to its site triple in the last two months since November, according to new numbers from traffic analyst firm Hitwise today. The service has seen unprecedented media coverage lately and is no doubt sending more updates to Facebook and Twitter, prompting the growth in visits back to Foursquare that Hitwise is measuring.

Virtual memorials are nothing new — people have been paying their respects to departed loved ones on Facebook and Myspace for years. But a Facebook page set up for Henio Zytomirski, a 6-year-old Polish boy who was killed during the Holocaust, is truly revolutionizing the way we recount history and remember the dead. His profile is, in essence, a virtual museum.

The Haiti crisis brought to light the powerful fundraising possibilities that texting can offer to causes. But while the Red Cross did a fantastic job fundraising, not every non-profit will experience such phenomenal success.

The "dot com" domain is 25 years old in March, and Verisign is raising its profile by celebrating the internet's first .com registration