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Apple’s Role in the Earthquake
Apple’s Role in the Earthquake cameronmoll: An email from an Apple Japan employee and friend of Kevin Rose: 7 hours and 118 aftershocks later, the store was still open. Why? Because with the phone and train lines down, taxis stopped, and millions of people stuck in the Tokyo shopping district scared, with no access to…
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N. Negroponte: “Being Digital”, Bits and Atoms, Chapter 1
N. Negroponte: “Being Digital”, Bits and Atoms, Chapter 1 In the information and entertainment industries, bits and atoms often are confused. Is the publisher of a book in the information delivery business (bits) or in the manufacturing business (atoms)? The historical answer is both, but that will change rapidly as information appliances become more ubiquitous…
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Born Digital? Die Young
Born Digital? Die Young “Our cultural heritage is being set down in digital forms as the primary, first record,” says McDonough, an LIS assistant professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Rather than being born on stone, paper, film, or some other substratum known to last for millennia, centuries, or at least many decades, today’s…
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Short Note on Books – Creative Leadership
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“The @charliesheen account has highlighted the ability of the Twitter platform to enable individuals to build an owned audience, in real-time, in scale, with a narrative that does not need to pass through the traditional media gatekeepers,” said Kerner, who along with colleague Michael Silverstein, is building one of the first research units on the…