Daily Archives: June 30, 2009

Gladwell Anderson Argument Misses the Point

Though the argument between Gladwell and Anderson is fun to read and stimulating it completely misses the point of why Anderson is wrong about Free and why the newspaper industry is having trouble. “Information wants to be free” doesn’t mean … Continue reading

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Indifference as an assumption is self-defeating

TechCrunch opines on the open government efforts and the pros and cons of being more open.  I’m troubled by this statement: Except there is one big problem: indifference. Most people will not do anything with that data. If we approached … Continue reading

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