Month: February 2011

  • Interesting Tidbits for February 23rd

    Things worth reading for February 16th through February 23rd: Information overload? Time to relax then | Technology | guardian.co.uk – Nice piece by Mr. Doctorow: “After years of discovering a new information resource, being consumed by it, finding it too much to bear, then getting on top of it, only to find myself being sucked…

  • Interesting Tidbits for February 15th

    Things worth reading for February 10th through February 15th: HP’s Open Innovation Strategy: Leveraging Academic Labs – Technology Review – “When Rich Friedrich of HP Labs looks into the future, he sees desks used as 3-D displays, printers that automatically tailor a newspaper to a reader’s tastes, faster and more secure cloud computing servers, and…

  • Interesting Tidbits for February 9th

    Things worth reading for February 7th through February 9th: Why Didn’t a Newspaper Create The Huffington Post?: Tech News and Analysis « – More thoughtful analysis on the HuffPo/AOL marriage from GigaOm: “As author Clay Christensen outlined in The Innovator’s Dilemma, it is almost impossible for a company that has an established business in one…

  • Interesting Tidbits for February 7th

    Things worth reading for February 3rd through February 7th: AOL+HuffPo! Why It is Not Really a Good Deal: Tech News and Analysis « – Om’s analysis of the AOL acquisition of HuffPo. Good read. AOL Buys Huffington Post for $315 Million – ‘In one of the biggest digital publishing deals in recent memory, AOL has…

  • Interesting Tidbits for February 3rd

    Things worth reading for February 2nd through February 3rd: Is Your Calendar Managing You? – Ron Ashkenas – Harvard Business Review – Speaking of feeling overwhelmed… “Collectively, the demands we face at work are daunting and require constant juggling and trade-offs. For senior people much of this juggling is done by an executive assistant and/or…

  • Interesting Tidbits for February 2nd

    Things worth reading for January 31st through February 2nd: Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: “Deep Media,” Transmedia, What’s the Difference?: An Interview with Frank Rose (Part One) – First part of a wide-ranging and brilliant discussion between Henry Jenkins and Frank Rose, author of a forthcoming book on “Deep Media.” Jaron Lanier: “Friction-Free” Is the…