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Destructive Creation: BuzzMachine's Jeff Jarvis on Internet Disintermediation and the Rise of Efficiency
Via Jos Schuurmanns’s site comes this post by Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine. In it, Jarvis basically offers a précis of his book, What Would Google Do?, a manifesto for the rapidly approaching post-scarcity age. (Irony: Jarvis has authorized no preview on Google Books.) Jarvis’s thesis is that Amazon, craigslist, eBay and Google have radically challenged [...]
Things Fall Apart: Mark C. Taylor on the Future of the American University
In an April 27 New York Times opinion piece, Columbia University Religious Studies professor Mark C. Taylor offers his prescription for the ills besetting American university graduate programs. He begins with a quip: “Graduate education is the Detroit of higher learning.” This mordant bit of humor, while timely, might not sit right with folks in [...]
The Confidence-Man
I just chased a door-to-door, magazine-subs-for-charity huckster from my threshold. He somehow circumvented the tenant-controlled front door, knocking instead at my kitchen door, which leads to the fire escape! I remember my neighborhood in Tucson being lousy with such garrulous, darting fiends. They’d flagrantly ignore “No Solicitors” signs to pay me calls that, no matter [...]
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