July 2008
“Three in every hundred centenarians have used the online encyclopaedia, and four...”
– The 100-year-olds who use Wikipedia and Google - Times Online
“AMERICANS today spend almost as much on bandwidth — the capacity to move...”
– Op-Ed Contributor - Why Bandwidth Is the Oil of the Information Economy - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
“Piracy can help to open up new markets. eg: Farmers in Brazil wanted to use...”
– Piracy | Look for the silver lining | Economist.com
“Statistics about the traffic on file-sharing networks can be useful. They can...”
– Piracy | Look for the silver lining | Economist.com
“For every song that is bought legally, in shops or online, around 20 songs are...”
– Internet piracy | Thanks, me hearties | Economist.com
“Nadia said she preferred reading stories online because “you could add your own...”
– Literacy Debate - Online, R U Really Reading? - Series - NYTimes.com
“On paper, text has a predetermined beginning, middle and end, where readers...”
– Literacy Debate - Online, R U Really Reading? - Series - NYTimes.com
“students who create and give away digital copies are motivated not by financial...”
– Digital Domain - First It Was Song Downloads. Now It’s Organic Chemistry. - NYTimes.com
“a recent Universal McCann report stating that content consumption outside of...”
– Brandstreaming: What Is It & Who’s Doing It? - ReadWriteWeb
“a brandstream… = “a consistent flow of content created by a brand”
– Brandstreaming: What Is It & Who’s Doing It? - ReadWriteWeb
“By early this year, M-Pesa’s payment mechanism was threatening to change...”
– Vodafone | receiver » Blog Archive » Mobile banking – the next phase in Africa’s mobile revolution
“In 2007, exchanges sold about 15 percent of the remnant inventory, and about 5...”
– Advertising - Leftover Ad Space? Exchanges Handle the Remnants - NYTimes.com
“By acting quickly when customers complain — even at the oddest hours — the team...”
– Complaining Bloggers Have a Cable Company’s Ear - NYTimes.com
“On Friday morning, I was shocked to find my always-empty neighborhood AT&T...”
– apophenia: Can the iPhone hit crucial network density for noticable cluster effects?
“Dwayne Spradlin, president and chief executive of InnoCentive, said in an...”
– If You Have a Problem, Use Innocentive to Ask Everyone - NYTimes.com
“Google’s two founders told her the word privacy could only be added to the home...”
– Google Changes Home Page, Adding Link to Privacy Policy - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
“(In the US) more than one-third of women aged 18 and over play computer games,...”
– E3: Quarter of all videogamers are over 50, says study - Telegraph
“BBC says more than 60% of its viewers are 35 or older—and they stay online for...”
– BBC Leads the Way onto the Web
“There are now 165 million different websites around the world, according to...”
– BBC NEWS | Technology | Web in infancy, says Berners-Lee
“Doctors — and patients — have taken to online video postings with gusto. Type in...”
– Skin Deep - Coming Soon to YouTube - My Face-Lift - NYTimes.com
“For all the damage to reputations the Internet can cause, perhaps the greater...”
– Link by Link - Poof! You’re Unpublished. - NYTimes.com
“over the last three years, the most experienced users of the Internet had been...”
– Older E-Mail Users Favor Fast Replies - NYTimes.com
“Search in the last decade has moved from give me what I said to give me what I...”
– Official Google Blog: Technologies behind Google ranking
“Over the past year, about 600 people in Nairobi — most under 25 — have coalesced...”
– Ping - Inside Nairobi, the Next Palo Alto? - NYTimes.com
“In the United States and other countries, writing articles for Wikipedia can...”
– Link by Link - In Egypt, a Thirst for Technology and Progress - NYTimes.com
“In the spring, a protest against rising food prices and President Hosni...”
– Link by Link - In Egypt, a Thirst for Technology and Progress - NYTimes.com
“You could spend 12 months making a documentary and releasing it, and having your...”
– A brave new worldwide web | Media | The Guardian
“56% of people think buying online is more environmentally friendly than high...”
– Online sales boom as shoppers desert high street | Business | The Guardian
“Out of every £1 spent by British shoppers 17p is now going to online retailers”
– Online sales boom as shoppers desert high street | Business | The Guardian
“We have a little bit of the Wal-Mart effect going on,” he said. “As times get...”
– Google Deliberately Sells Fewer Ads and May Have Gone Too Far - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
“In the last UK census, the average age was 37.4 - making us only a few months...”
– Average age of viewers hits 50 as more turn to web | Media | The Guardian
“the average age of those watching TV in the US has tipped 50 for the first time”
– Average age of viewers hits 50 as more turn to web | Media | The Guardian
“The Sloan Digital Sky Survey had been looking in this part of space for 16...”
– Astronomy | Stars in their eyes | Economist.com
“Rather than selling games as shrink-wrapped retail products which can then be...”
– Video games | Asian invasion | Economist.com
“1% of South Africa’s economy was tied up, one way or another, in the...”
– Africa and Coca-Cola | Index of happiness? | Economist.com
http://www.amazon.com/Post-American-World-Fareed-Za... →
China now exports more goods and services in a single day than it did in all of 1978
(nb: check this in the book: it was written only in a comment)
“We didn’t watch daily footage of the two million people who died in...”
– The Rise of the Rest | Print Article | Newsweek.com
“We are living through the third great power shift in modern history. The first...”
– Excerpt: Zakaria’s ‘The Post-American World’ | Newsweek International | Newsweek.com
“In 2006 and 2007, 124 countries grew their economies at over 4 percent a year....”
– Excerpt: Zakaria’s ‘The Post-American World’ | Newsweek International | Newsweek.com
“over the past 15 years military victories have resolved only 7.5% of conflicts,...”
– Conflict resolution | The discreet charms of the international go-between | Economist.com
“consumers no longer feel the need to obtain their opinions from on high: the...”
– Is it curtains for critics? | Art & Architecture | guardian.co.uk Arts
“Not just recession, M&S recession”
– The credit crunch | Britain’s sinking economy | Economist.com
“The vast majority of the nation’s 15 million college students — at least 79...”
– High Cost of Driving Ignites Online Classes Boom - NYTimes.com
“Sometimes I forget that my world is not the mainstream (yet)”
– Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist || Living in the future || July || 2008
“Sixty years ago, digital computers made information readable. Twenty years ago,...”
– The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete
“Faced with the rising cost of petrol, consumers are choosing to spend more time...”
– Online shopping beats Bluewater for bargain hunters - Telegraph
“With everything from groceries to shopping at your favorite stores, it’s...”
– Recession spurs online growth. Are you ready? | Element Fusion Internet Development
“Digital natives:
* Like receiving information quickly from multiple media...”
– How the Google generation thinks differently - Times Online
“Looking at Facebook today… you find a site where it’s harder to find...”
– Metcalfe’s Plateau // NoahBrier.com 