InfoBoom seeks US IT pros to take telephone survey, get stipend

The Infoboom, a site to which I regularly contribute for pay, is doing some research to learn more about how IT and business technology professionals meet their information needs.

The research involves a one-hour telephone interview and they are offering $100 American Express gift certificates to people who complete the survey.

Apply to be interviewed here.

You must be based in the U.S. and you must have significant involvement with business technology, but other than that they are pretty flexible.

This is not a marketing pitch and nobody's going to try to sell you anything. IBM, which underwrites the site, just really wants to know more about what its audience needs. Thanks!

Essential reading on impact of Web and media shift on thinking, socializing, publishing

From today's NYT:

Instead of reading an entire news article, watching an entire television show or listening to an entire speech, growing numbers of people are happy to jump to the summary, the video clip, the sound bite — never mind if context and nuance are lost in the process; never mind if it’s our emotions, more than our sense of reason, that are engaged; never mind if statements haven’t been properly vetted and sourced.

A lot more goodies where this came from. This may be one of the most important topics and issues of our era.