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Entries from August 15th, 2008

The Big Switch

August 19th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Non-fiction, Reading

TweetI finished reading Nicholas Carr‘s The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google back in June, but am just now getting to blogging my thoughts on this book. Something about shipping software… Carr carefully recounts how the electrical industry evolved, and focused on the personalities of early central players such as Thomas Edison [...]

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Does ‘seam carving’ generalize?

August 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Content management, Ideas, Reading

Tweet During a recent Charlie Rose interview with Peter Chernin, the subject of media formats came up, which reminded me of an earlier question I raised, “What is the natural unit of written collaboration?” When I mused upon this question it was in the context of documents and written content. I hadn’t really thought about [...]

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