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Skeptical reader: Andrew Keen's big ideas

Skeptical reader: Andrew Keen's big ideasWell putI do sometimes enjoy reading Andrew Keen's columns, but he does seem to have an inflated view of his own importance. Amazingly enough, people may actually have good reasons for either disagreeing with or ignoring him, it is even possible to disagree with...

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Discussion threads 2007-06-29

Nick Carr's Big Switch

Nicholas Carr, amongst the most incisive and profound critic of information technology, will be in Silicon Valley tonight, at Campbell's Barnes and Noble bookstore in conversation with ZDNet honcho Dan Farber, Edgeio co-founder/CEO Keith Teare, and Gillmor Gang ringleader & Podtech exec Steve Gillmor, and me. While the event is...

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Blog posts 2007-06-19

Don't Look Back

How to innovate? That was both the spoken and unspoken question on everyone's minds at the Wall Street Journal's memorable D Conference last week in Carlsbad. How can we radically improve the experience and value of interacting with one's digital device? What is the next chapter in the...

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Blog posts 2007-06-03

Does Internet democracy work?

How effective is democracy on the Internet?A few weeks ago, I challenged Jeff Jarvis, one of Web 2.0's most fervent democratizers, to debate my forthcoming book Cult of the Amateur. Jarvis, who regards me as the digital anti-christ and a "Stalinist", wasn't sure if he wanted to debate me....

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Blog posts 2007-05-30

Does Eric Schmidt want to sniff the armpits of my mind?

So Eric Schmidt, the Chauncey Gardiner of Silicon Valley, is at it again. This time, the wise old fool wants to organize my daily life. The Google CEO Chief Eccentric Officer confessed to the Financial Times today:"The goal is to enable Google users to be able to ask the question...

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Blog posts 2007-05-23

Outsourcing The News

The San Francisco Chronicle has just announced a 25% cut in its editorial team. Will that mean 25% less news in the already hard news deprived Chronicle? Or will the remaining 75% of Chronicle journalists be working 50% harder to produce the same amount of news?Alternatively, the Chronicle...

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Blog posts 2007-05-22

Bubbe is back

So there I was, on the BART train, reading the newspaper-that-Rupert-is-lusting-after. Id just finished Mossbergs piece of hot air on the Helio yawn and was flipping through the other sections. I came to the Personal Journal and saw an interesting article about FDA approval for cancer vaccine. And then my...

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Blog posts 2007-05-10

Buy Microsoft, buy Yahoo!

Two things happen in metaphysical economies -- markets in which everything is based on faith & there is no concrete economic reality: Hyped media companies (Broadcast.com, Napster, AOL, YouTube, Facebook, MySpace etc etc) get radically over valued.Media companies valued on traditional economic criteria (Time-Warner, Yahoo & Microsoft) get radically undervalued....

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Blog posts 2007-05-06

Virtual reality in Hollywood

On Hollywood is getting weirder by the panel. First there was golden girl Arianna and her colonialization of the media universe. Then I wandered into a panel ominously entitled "Whats in store for Virtual Worlds?" So what is in store for virtual worlds? Virtual reality, thats what we are all...

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Blog posts 2007-05-02

Arianna is golden

It takes a golden woman to get me out of bed at 5.00 am. And Arianna Huffington is golden, very golden. I caught the 6.30 shuttle this morning down to Burbank, to catch the golden girl live -- speaking at On Hollywood. She didnt disappoint. Dressed in a gold top,...

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Blog posts 2007-05-02

Zigger nation

Business 2.0 dedicates its May 2007 issue to purveyors of unconventional business wisdom. Rip up the rules of management, we are told. Its the principle of permanent revolution applied to the free market. Be unconventional. Think differently. Be a contrarian. And then, youll acquire business immortality. Thus, Business 2.0 invites...

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Blog posts 2007-05-01

Want to know what I'm doing now?

Want to know what Im doing now?Im typing on my computer using both of my hands and all ten of my fingers. I just made a rocking cup of PG Tips tea in my new LA Times Festival of Books mug. My breath still feels a bit garlicky because I...

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Blog posts 2007-04-30

F**k China

Seems like the F-word is more popular than China on the blogosphere. According to a Scansafes Monthly Global Threat Report for March 2007: "Up to 80 percent of blogs contain potentially offensive content, which can range from adult language to pornographic images, and about 6 percent of blogs host malware."It...

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Blog posts 2007-04-25

Terri Gross savages Jimmy Wales

Did anyone listen to Terry Gross interview with Jimmy "Free Culture" Wales last week on NPRs Fresh Air? Was it just my wishful thinking, or was the normally all-too-tolerant Terry really really appalled by Jimmy and his Wikipedia menagerie of idiot editors and idiotic information? Its definitely worth...

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Blog posts 2007-04-24

2007 Old Fart awards

That revolutionary bible of innovation, instigation and investment is at it again. The May issue of Wired gives us its 2007 Rave Awards for the "innovators, instigators and investors who are changing the world". 2007 Rave Award winners include J.K. Rowling Business, Arianna Huffington Renegade, Arnold Schwarzenegger Politics and Henry...

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Blog posts 2007-04-23

Welcome to 1984, folks

Welcome to 1984, folks. Its been a bit delayed, but were getting there.Thats what British journalist John Naughton concludes in an excellent Observer piece about the creeping and creepy power that Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are amassing through the establishment of gigantic server farms all over world. Naughton...

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Blog posts 2007-04-22

Dave Winer gets naked

Dave Winer thinks hes found the future of advertising on the Internet. I hope hes wrong. Because if Daves vision ever becomes real, then media will become an endless commercial break of fast talking car salesmen stripping down to their underpants to sell us a Nissan. Dave links to a...

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Blog posts 2007-04-21

My top five consumer electronic items

Okay, guys -- so some of you have had a few problems with HP computers in the past. Im sorry although I personally am not responsible for the reliability of either the Microsoft operating system or the HP hardware -- I feel your pain and share your grief. But lets...

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Blog posts 2007-04-20

HP discovers sex

Its not often that ones grandma reinvents herself as a nymph. As Alan Deutschman explains in his very readable Change or Die, radical change is a challenging business that favors only the most nimble. But Hewlett-Packard have pulled off a dramatic facelift, going from the greyest company in Silicon Valley...

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Blog posts 2007-04-18

The future of media

What is the future of media?Tony Kern knows. Kern, the managing principal for media and entertainment at Deloitte, has just published a survey about the future of media. The core of Deloittes survey is a break down of media habits in four broad age groups in order to determine a...

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Blog posts 2007-04-17