I 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 [...]
Entries from August 2008
The Big Switch
August 19th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Non-fiction, Reading
Does ’seam carving’ generalize?
August 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Content management, Ideas, Reading
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 so-called [...]
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