The Great Seduction
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Nick Carr's Big Switch
Nicholas Carr, amongst the most incisive and profound critic of information technology, will be in Silicon Valley tonight (7.00 pm), at Campbell’s Barnes and Noble bookstore in conversation with ZDNet honcho Dan Farber, Edgeio co-founder/CEO Keith Teare, and Gillmor Gang ringleader & Podtech exec Steve Gillmor, and me. While the event is ostensibly to discuss [...]
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Don't Look Back
How to innovate? That was both the spoken and unspoken question on everyone’s minds at the Wall Street Journal’s memorable D Conference this week in Carlsbad. How can we radically improve the experience and value of interacting with one’s digital device? What is the next chapter in the evolution of information and entertainment technology?
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Does Internet democracy work?
How effective is democracy on the Internet?
A few weeks ago, I challenged Jeff Jarvis, one of Web 2.0’s most fervent democratizers, to debate my forthcoming book Cult of the Amateur. Jarvis, who regards me as the digital anti-christ and a “Stalinist“, wasn’t sure if he wanted to debate me. So he instigated a debate [...] -
Does Eric Schmidt want to sniff the armpits of my mind?
So Eric Schmidt, the Chauncey Gardiner of Silicon Valley, is at it again. This time, the wise old fool wants to organize my daily life. The Google CEO (Chief Eccentric Officer) confessed to the Financial Times today:
“The goal is to enable Google users to be able to ask the question such as ‘What shall I [...] -
Outsourcing The News
The San Francisco Chronicle has just announced a 25% cut in its editorial team. Will that mean 25% less news in the already hard news deprived Chronicle? Or will the remaining 75% of Chronicle journalists be working 50% harder to produce the same amount of news?
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Bubbe is back
So there I was, on the BART train, reading the newspaper-that-Rupert-is-lusting-after. I’d just finished Mossberg’s piece of hot air on the Helio (yawn). Then my eye caught the photograph in the center of the page. It was the latest pin-up for alter-kucker media.
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Buy Microsoft, buy Yahoo!
Are Yahoo and Microsoft finished as Internet companies? Can they rebound? Of course they can. In contrast with the majority of Web 2.0 entrepreneurs, both Microsoft and Yahoo have innovation in the blood. They are still the future of the Internet.
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Virtual reality in Hollywood
On Hollywood is getting weirder by the panel. First there was golden girl Arianna and her colonialization of the media universe. Then I wandered into a panel ominously entitled “What’s in store for Virtual Worlds?”
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Arianna is golden
It takes a golden woman to get me out of bed at 5.00 am. And Arianna Huffington is golden, very golden. I caught the 6.30 shuttle this morning down to Burbank, to catch the golden girl live — speaking at On Hollywood. She didn’t disappoint. Dressed in a gold top, the golden haired Arianna glowed this morning in Hollywood.
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Zigger nation
Business 2.0 dedicates it’s May 2007 issue to purveyors of unconventional business wisdom. But what happens when every entrepreneur is seeking to be a contrarian?
