Thoughts on policy, business, disclosure, and communications
Saturday’s Barron’s had a pithy review of Ken Aulettta’s Googled: The End of the World As We Know It.To sum it up, reviewer Mark Veverka says, “Google’s science exposes the inefficiency of traditional advertising and threatens to remove middlemen.” In other words, as went record labels and travel agents, so goes my first chosen profession, journalism. The inefficiency of
Dealbook on the New York Times for the past several days has published a series of articles on the financial crisis and the way forward. It’s a modern media approach to exploring and perhaps developing economic policy. Say what you will about Web 2.0 and its effect on traditional media. If the Gray Lady can [...]
True or false? NIEM is to XBRL as United States customary units are to the Metric System. The good news is people are working to make sure we don’t need to care. Diane Mueller links to that work from her latest thoughtful piece on the state of transparency. There are alternatives to linking to show authenticity [...]
Having tried and failed for two weeks to find time to give Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder the thoughtful consideration and worthy review it deserves after hearing author David Weinberger speak at last month’s Managing Electronic Records Conference, the recent distraction of responding to several bloggers’ misinformation and misunderstanding of [...]
U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa tweeted a link this morning to this video, a compelling story of the success of education choice in the District of Columbia and the unfathomable decision to terminate it. There’s also a link to a Washington Post editorial on the Reason site,
Will the Coming Political Realignment Get It Right? I received New York Law School Professor and Obama administration adviser Beth Simone Noveck’s new book, Wiki Government, Wednesday. I thought about reviewing it on my own, but then figured — hey, I just downloaded Wikipedia’s software to my own server (more accurately the space I rent [...]
A redeeming thing about a crisis is that it brings out good things in people. The debt crisis has delivered an onslaught of good writing made particularly visible by the coincidental and exponential development of Internet publishing. Having enjoyed the luxury of time to read some of it the past few days and having personally [...]