Civil liberties be damned
Every day, in supposedly caring, sensible Berkeley, I see people do incredibly stupid things while driving. They turn suddenly in front of oncoming traffic. They pull out from a side street without...
View ArticleThe new center of the media universe
Tracey Taylor: “The Guardian has just under 400,000 readers. Its website, however, has 11 million readers a month.” Tracey heard Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger speaking last night at Berkeley’s...
View Article"Integrate or become less relevant"
The speech by Reuters’ Tom Glocer hailed by Jeff Jarvis has been published in the Financial Times (a couple of weeks after it published a snarky, fairly clueless piece diminishing blogs). It has been a...
View ArticleWhat should the WSJ do with its blogs?
Barry Ritholtz gives The Wall Street Journal some valuable advice on its venture into the world of blogs. They could have paid a consultant vast fees for far less than this. Here’s a particularly...
View ArticleDo you want that film in Twi or Quecha, sir?
My friend Michael Smolens has just gone live with the beta site of his new project, dotSub. It’s a fascinating idea: provide Web-based tools to enable anyone to subtitle a film into any language....
View ArticleBoris on Berlusconi
I’ve been an Italophile for a long time. It survived, just, a year running a company in Milan to the extent that my wedding was held in Italy. It’s been a couple of years since I’ve been there, but...
View ArticleAlgorithm v editor
Nicholas Carr examines the differences between editors and algorithms. He concludes there’s hope for my species yet: The crowd aggregates all individuals’ knowledge about variables while balancing out...
View ArticleLasers:lightbulbs, hedgehogs:foxes
I recently had an email exchange with a well-known, polymathic academic. He regretfully turned down collaborating on a project with me because, he wrote, “I used to be a lightbulb and now I’m a laser.”...
View ArticleDisconnect me, please
Bond investor Bill Gross interviewed in Fortune about his work habits: “For a portfolio manager, eliminating the noise is critical. You have to cut the information flow to a minimum level. You could...
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Tragic misuse of tragic statistics
The startling headline above leads today’s San Francisco Chronicle. It stopped me in my tracks and I read the full part one by Jill Tucker. There’s excellent reporting and tragic detail about the...
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