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Paul Ryan

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The Omnigoogle - 0 views

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    But while Google is an unusual company in many ways, when you boil down its business strategy, you find that it's not quite as mysterious as it seems. The way Google makes money is straightforward: It brokers and publishes advertisements through digital media.
Paul Ryan

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The cloud's Chrome lining - 0 views

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    Google is motivated by something much larger than its congenital hatred of Microsoft. It knows that its future, both as a business and as an idea (and Google's always been both), hinges on the continued rapid expansion of the usefulness of the Internet, which in turn hinges on the continued rapid expansion of the capabilities of web apps, which in turn hinges on rapid improvements in the workings of web browsers.
Paul Ryan

Is Google A Content Company? Of Course It Is. So What Should Publishers Do? - 0 views

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    For the past week, I've been fielding calls about Google's new content play, called Knol, "killing" Mahalo. Knol stands for "unit of Knowledge" and it's a very well-designed Wikipedia/Mahalo style content publishing play. It's very similar to the New York Times' forgotten About.com, Seth Godin's spam-filled Squidoo, the flawed-but-fascinating Wikipedia, and of course my new project Mahalo.com.
Paul Ryan

Is Google Making Us Stupid? - 0 views

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    What the Internet is doing to our brains
Paul Ryan

What Newspapers Still Don't Understand About The Web - Publishing 2.0 - 0 views

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    Why is Google making more money everyday while newspapers are making less? I'm going to pick on The Washington Post again only because it's my local paper and this is a local example.
Paul Ryan

Stoooopid .... why the Google generation isn't as smart as it thinks - Times Online - 0 views

  • But the damage is not caused by overwork, it’s caused by multiple distracted work. One American study found that interruptions take up 2.1 hours of the average knowledge worker’s day. This, it was estimated, cost the US economy $588 billion a year. Yet the rabidly multitasking distractee is seen as some kind of social and economic ideal.
  • “The next generation will not grieve because they will not know what they have lost,” says Bill McKibben, the great environmentalist.
  • “I feel that much of my life is ebbing away in the tide of minute-by-minute distraction . . . I’m not certain what the effect on the world will be. But psychologists do say that intense close engagement with things does provide the most human satisfaction.” The psychologists are right. McKibben describes himself as “loving novelty” and yet “craving depth”, the contemporary predicament in a nutshell.
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    The digital age is destroying us by ruining our ability to concentrate.
Paul Ryan

What Magazines Still Don't Understand About The Web - Publishing 2.0 - 0 views

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    Since I already drilled a nerve with What Newspapers Still Don't Understand About The Web, which is on its way to becoming one of my most linked posts ever - and since everyone loves a sequel - I thought I would do a follow up for magazines. The lessons, of course, apply to every print publisher, who constantly discovers new ways to frustrate web users by prioritizing print over web.
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