William Germano: Books Are Holiness
Chronicle of Higher EducationI don't buy that if books vanish our civilization will suffer.
View ArticleAmazon Kindle Singles
New Profiteering/Publishing From Amazon.com"Kindle Singles, which are Kindle books that are in the company’s words, “twice the length of a New Yorker feature or as much as a few chapters of a typical...
View ArticleLong Tail Feeds It Self
". . . . the same forces that created Amazon’s Long Tail in the first place may continue to make it longer over time . . . . First, exposure to niche products could drive consumers to develop a taste...
View ArticleDegrees - Business Sense = ?
Ian Cook, Director Research & Learning at the B.C. Human Resources Management Association was recently quoted (my paraphrasing):...it is easy to recruit people who have a degree, but they have no...
View Article"Today, three years is an Eternity"
George F. Will3 million iPods in 2.5 years3 million Kindles in 2 years3 million iPads in 80 days3 million iPhones in 3 weeks2001 iPod arrived. Les than 10 years later the number of employees of music...
View ArticleAmbiance App
There are not many Desktop apps I'd recommend, but this is nice:AmbianceGreat for that ocean waves, burbling brook, etc.
View ArticleCourse Hero.....IP Issues
Seems there are all kinds of issues right now around who owns/controls course materials. One example is Course Hero.You could upload a friend's course cheat sheet, that itself is full of insturctor...
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12 Ways To Make Bad Decisions
12 Ways to Make Bad Decisionsvia The Heart of Innovation by Mitch Ditkoff1. Selective Search for Evidence2. Premature Termination of Search for Evidence3. Inertia4. Selective Perception5. Wishful...
View ArticleIT Seems to Not Be Living Up to Its Promises
MERS - bad data on mortgagesI can't help but look all around me and see the dysfunction IT brings to our world. For every plus, there are many more minuses it seems. Paper records were bad because they...
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