Kent Anderson reviewed Jaron Lanier's book over on the Scholarly Kitchen: I started Jaron Lanier’s recent book, “You Are Not a Gadget,” skeptical of his initial opinions. His complaints about standardization and today’s limiting philosophy of information technology didn’t impress me at first — after all, we had to embrace standards around electricity, electromagnetic spectrum… Read More
Cover via Amazon One of my favorite quotes in the movie The Princess Bride is Inigo Montoya’s response to Fezzini’s use of the word “Inconceivable!” Fezzini: Inconceivable! Inigo: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. I often feel like Inigo when I’m listening to people talk… Read More
Image via Wikipedia Michael Hansen, CEO Elsevier Health Sciences opened the Software & Information Industry Association’s (SIIA) Annual Information Industry Summit by reintroducing the audience to Galileo. His lessons from Galileo: In a time of change, remember your roots. Galileo reminded Hansen of Elsevier’s core strength to: “bring insights to the world and have… Read More
“There’s a mismatch between what science knows and what business does.” Daniel Pink at TED Talks 2009 According to Dan, what science knows is that when people are offered rewards for simple, structured tasks results improve. But, when rewards are offered for tasks that are conceptual they have a negative impact on performance. What business… Read More
My husband recently pointed me to an interview with Rory Sutherland and the following video of his TED Talk. Similar to Predictably Irrational and Nudge, Sutherland's view is that people don't make decisions on pure economic value alone. Intangible value plays a large role, although many are loathe to admit it. "There is a basic… Read More
We're talking about Google Wave over on the Scholarly Kitchen. Google Wave was built to answer the question, “How would email look if it were invented today?” But Wave goes far beyond email-like functionality and tries to get to the heart of communication in all the forms that we’ve come to know. Wave is part… Read More
Through the years I’ve been fortunate to meet lots of smart people in publishing, media, and technology. It’s been an amazing experience working with both organizations “going digital” and others that have been there for some time but are continuously refining their approach to content and publishing. It’s an exciting place to be (scary, but… Read More
After Michael Clarke's coverage of Sci Foo Camp on the Scholarly Kitchen, I thought there was nothing left to say. Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 I was wrong. NatureVideo just posted a Science Foo Camp 2009 video on YouTube. From DNA, to skulls, to puzzles, it seems like Sci Foo had it all. It… Read More