Recently read childhood hero (a la WIRED) Kevin Kelly’s hugely enjoyable What Technology Wants, a book that seeks to make sense of the ‘technium’ that wasn’t so much created by man as ordained by the physical laws of the universe.
Loved The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu: a history of US “speech industries”—as Wu terms any information industry.
The Economist launches an ad network.
Alexis Maybank (co-founder of Gilt Groupe) invests in FashionStake.com.
FT’s Lex expect some of Google’s non-search initiatives (Mobile, Vidoe, Display) to start becoming real businesses for the giant soon.
Al Jazeera’s Wadah Khanfar speaks at Columbia March 24 2010.
Chris Anderson CBS Talk. March 18.
2010 MBA Media & Entertainment Conference.
My J-school prof is giving a talk next week: Join the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies for a discussion: Covering Israel: The First and Second Drafts of History with Gershom Gorenberg Krueger Family Visiting Professor, Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies and Nicholas Lemann Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism and Henry R. [...]
Christian Dicarlo asks the question.