by Tom | Oct 12, 2011 | Business, Reading
Guardian Makes Editorial Schedule Public, Invites Readers to Contribute. Interesting experiment, and I hope they continue it. A good way to make the process of journalism more comprehensible and therefore more valuable.
by Tom | Oct 11, 2011 | Business, Reading
Daniel Soar reviews ‘The Googlisation of Everything (and Why We Should Worry)’ by Siva Vaidhyanathan, ‘In the Plex’ by Steven Levy and ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’ by Douglas Edwards · LRB 6 October 2011. Great summary of the way Google works. My take-outs: we...
by Tom | Oct 10, 2011 | Reading
A very fine Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, IMHO. Definitely a piece of geek reductio, but nothing wrong with that.
by Tom | Oct 7, 2011 | Reading, Tech
Great new feature on the new Kindles allows you to follow thinking in a book well beyond the boundaries of the book itself. A sort of algorithmically guessed set of mini-internet searches that you might want to do. I already love having a dictionary built in to look...
by Tom | Oct 7, 2011 | Business, Reading, Science
Great stuff from Neal Stephenson (I quite liked REAMDE, not his finest work, though) on certainty and failure-intolerance. Today’s belief in ineluctable certainty is the true innovation-killer of our age. In this environment, the best an audacious manager can do is...
by Tom | Oct 7, 2011 | Business, Reading
A coruscating rant about an ideologically-driven economics which is missing the point of the scientific method. I’m not sure how much straw man tilting is going on here, but the point about the importance of small deviations is one that is well worth getting...
