Category: Pick of the Week

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Data Pick of the Week

Pick of the week: Hold the Phone: A Big-Data Conundrum – NYTimes.com

  • Hold the Phone: A Big-Data Conundrum – NYTimes.com

    • “Correlations are what motivate us to look further. If all that big data does — and it surely does more — is to point out interesting correlations whose fundamental reasons we unpack in other ways, that already has immense value” (Sendhil Mullainathan)

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Internet Pick of the Week

Pick of the week: Europe’s Digital Reactionaries. – Project Syndicate

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Extra Pick of the Week

Pick of the Week: Poetry: Who Needs It? – NYTimes.com

“A century ago, poetry did not appear in little magazines devoted to it, but on the pages of newspapers and mass-circulation magazines. The big magazines and even the newspapers began declining about the time they stopped printing poetry. (I know, I know — I’ve put the cause before the horse.)”

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Intellectual Property Pick of the Week

Patent Litigation Cost US Business About A Trillion Dollars In A Quarter Century, Outweighing Benefits | Techdirt

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Internet Pick of the Week

What is network neutrality? – Everything you need to know about network neutrality – Vox

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Extra Pick of the Week

Pick of The Week: The Short Guide to Capital in the 21st Century – Vox

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Extra Pick of the Week

Pick of The Week (on Bitcoin): Interview With David Andolfatto – Business Insider

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Extra Pick of the Week

Pick of The Week: “The Rise of Anti-Capitalism” – NYTimes.com

  • The Rise of Anti-Capitalism – NYTimes.com

    “What makes the social commons more relevant today is that we are constructing an Internet of Things infrastructure that optimizes collaboration, universal access and inclusion, all of which are critical to the creation of social capital and the ushering in of a sharing economy.

    The Internet of Things is a game-changing platform that enables an emerging collaborative commons to flourish alongside the capitalist market.” (J.Rifkin)
     —
    That reminds me of the Cooperative Commons Manifesto, which everyone sharing such ideas is  warmly invited to subscribe!

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Extra Pick of the Week

Pick of the week: Kenneth Rogoff identifies several obstacles to keeping living standards on an upward trajectory. – Project Syndicate

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Extra Pick of the Week

Pick of the Week: The Battle for Power on the Internet – Bruce Schneier – The Atlantic

  • The Battle for Power on the Internet – Bruce Schneier – The Atlantic

    • “We’re in the middle of an epic battle for power in cyberspace. On one side are the traditional, organized, institutional powers such as governments and large multinational corporations. On the other are the distributed and nimble: grassroots movements, dissident groups, hackers, and criminals. Initially, the Internet empowered the second side. It gave them a place to coordinate and communicate efficiently, and made them seem unbeatable. But now, the more traditional institutional powers are winning, and winning big.”

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