Comments on: The real digital divide http://paulwallbank.com/2010/02/10/the-real-digital-divide/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-real-digital-divide Society and business in the 21st Century Sun, 03 Feb 2013 03:43:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.3 By: Paul Wallbank http://paulwallbank.com/2010/02/10/the-real-digital-divide/comment-page-1/#comment-29330 Sun, 03 Feb 2013 03:43:02 +0000 http://paulwallbank.com/?p=622#comment-29330 In reply to Gavin Heaton.

Totally agree Gavin, three years after this post we’re seeing the consequences for businesses and industries that chose to ignore the changes.

]]> By: The crowdsourcing business model of cheap or free labour will ultimately fail and this is a problem for online publishers | Paul Wallbank http://paulwallbank.com/2010/02/10/the-real-digital-divide/comment-page-1/#comment-573 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:08:34 +0000 http://paulwallbank.com/?p=622#comment-573 […] of today’s online publishers are like the loom weavers of the early 18th Century who derived a short term benefit from the change that eventually destroyed them. The same forces […]

]]> By: Gavin Heaton http://paulwallbank.com/2010/02/10/the-real-digital-divide/comment-page-1/#comment-506 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:36:15 +0000 http://paulwallbank.com/?p=622#comment-506 I have often thought that the “digital immigrant/digital native” divide is too simplistic. It’s more attitudinal. And anyway, young people aren’t born with natural computer skills and abilities. Like anything it needs to be taught. And while they may be able to easily navigate social networking platforms, getting them to a point where they can consider the BUSINESS application of such things is another thing altogether.

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