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InfoStory Quote: Reason with the fellow
“But reason with the fellow Before you punish him, where he heard this, Lest you shall chance to whip your information and beat the messenger who bid beware Of what is to be dreaded” – Shakespeare, Coriolanus
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InfoStory Quant: Social Networks, the New TV?
The number of people on social networks grew by 8% in the US in the past year (metro China 18%; Europe 11%) according to a new report today from Forrester Research. But there was no growth in the number of … Continue reading
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InfoStory Quotes: THE Social Network
“I don’t believe that [Facebook] has brought us closer together. I think it’s pushed us farther apart.’’ —Aaron Sorkin, Scriptwriter, The Social Network “The whole premise of the site is that everything is more valuable when you have context about … Continue reading
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What happens when you store information on a single atom?
IBM knows. See here and here and here.
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This Day In Information: Santayana
Today in 1952, George Santayana died, aged 88. His most famous quote could serve as a motto for this blog: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” He also said: ““History is always written wrong, and … Continue reading
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Zuckerberg for President?
The film The Social Network portrays Harvard’s “social apartheid,” in the words of the Guardian: “an elaborate series of crosscuts shows the gulf the nebbishy group of hackers and the rich-kid decadence of high Harvard society, with its “final clubs” … Continue reading
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This Day in Information: The Social Network, 1979
Today in 1979, 5 years before Mark Zuckerberg was born, CompuServe launched one of the first consumer online services, initially marketed as MicroNET through Radio Shack. By the mid-1980s, CompuServe was the largest consumer information service in the world due … Continue reading
InfoStory Quote: The age of mere information
“We are seeking to uphold truth, beauty, and wisdom in an age which has placed its faith in mere information” –Fictional Oxford Don in Inspector Lewis Your Sudden Death Question episode.
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This Day In Information: 1st Postmaster General
Today in 1789, Samuel Osgood became the first Postmaster General under the U.S. Constitution. The next year, 1790, the U.S. Postal Service moved 300,000 letters and 500,000 newspapers, according to Richard John’s definitive history of the American postal system. Says … Continue reading
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The InfoStory Quant: 250 million business email subscribers
IDC forecast the number of business email subscribers (e.g., Blackberry) to grow 36.5% annually and surpass 250 million in 2014.
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