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06 November 2008
Books Online
Google's book deal | A new chapter | The Economist
An interesting new development in online information availability...with some significant repercussions for key players in this segment.
An interesting new development in online information availability...with some significant repercussions for key players in this segment.
13 May 2008
Wikipedia Labors
FT.com | The Undercover Economist | Is that a big number? - Wikipedia edition: "Clay Shirky reports on a conversation with a TV producer, after describing a flurry of activity on the Pluto page:
She heard this story and she shook her head and said, “Where do people find the time?” That was her question. And I just kind of snapped. And I said, “No one who works in TV gets to ask that question. You know where the time comes from. It comes from the cognitive surplus you’ve been masking for 50 years.”
So how big is that surplus? So if you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia, the whole project–every page, every edit, every talk page, every line of code, in every language that Wikipedia exists in–that represents something like the cumulation of 100 million hours of human thought. I worked this out with Martin Wattenberg at IBM; it’s a back-of-the-envelope calculation, but it’s the right order of magnitude, about 100 million hours of thought.
100 million hours sounds like a big number, but as Clay goes on to describe, it’s tiny. 100 million hours is about 20 minutes per US citizen - roughly the amount of time collectively spent watching advertisements in a typical weekend. (That’s Clay’s number: I’d have guess it only took"
She heard this story and she shook her head and said, “Where do people find the time?” That was her question. And I just kind of snapped. And I said, “No one who works in TV gets to ask that question. You know where the time comes from. It comes from the cognitive surplus you’ve been masking for 50 years.”
So how big is that surplus? So if you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia, the whole project–every page, every edit, every talk page, every line of code, in every language that Wikipedia exists in–that represents something like the cumulation of 100 million hours of human thought. I worked this out with Martin Wattenberg at IBM; it’s a back-of-the-envelope calculation, but it’s the right order of magnitude, about 100 million hours of thought.
100 million hours sounds like a big number, but as Clay goes on to describe, it’s tiny. 100 million hours is about 20 minutes per US citizen - roughly the amount of time collectively spent watching advertisements in a typical weekend. (That’s Clay’s number: I’d have guess it only took"
09 April 2008
The semantic web
The semantic web | Start making sense | Economist.com
I really love this stuff... can't wait to see what evolves in this space.
I really love this stuff... can't wait to see what evolves in this space.
03 April 2008
13 March 2008
Luddite or Clairvoyant?
Discuss. On a side note, PayPal is apparently *the* Web 2.0 company--everyone that's anyone leading the charge on the modern web seems to connect back to that firm.
With friends like these ... Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of the people behind Facebook | Technology | The Guardian
PayPal on Wikipedia
With friends like these ... Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of the people behind Facebook | Technology | The Guardian
PayPal on Wikipedia
05 March 2008
"Insanely Great" Article
The trouble with Steve - Mar. 4, 2008
Now he was a go-to-hell aesthete who cared about making beautiful objects that made money.
Fortune is actually gaining my respect today with several excellent profiles in the edition on newsstands now.
Now he was a go-to-hell aesthete who cared about making beautiful objects that made money.
Fortune is actually gaining my respect today with several excellent profiles in the edition on newsstands now.
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