links for 2007-01-06

• Orville Schell on journalism under siege in Baghdad
  With Baghdad in chaos, it's worth going back and read Orville's report about the impossibility to report: "There is undeniably a Blade Runner-like feel to this city". (From TomDispatch)
  (tags: journalism war Iraq Irak)
• Winner-Take-All: Google and the Third Age of computing
  "Yahoo could add an extra $1.5B to their revenue overnight by conceding monetization [of their pageviews] to Google and becoming a distribution partner for Adwords", instead of keeping developing its own search-related ad business. (from SkrentaBlog)
  (tags: Google Yahoo advertising AdWords)
• $100 laptop project update
  Seven countries have signed up to get Nick Negroponte's laptops, and test machines are expected to reach children in February. (From the BBC)
  (tags: OneLaptopPerChild OLPC education laptop $100)
• Blogging, the nihilist impulse
  A great essay on blogging by media theorist Geert Lovink. Despite the length, if you're a blogger, read it. If you read blogs, read it. If you are interested in the development of the media system, read it. (From Eurozine)
  (tags: GeertLovink blogging blogosphere nihilism media)
• Ten stories you may have missed
  On: green innovators; nanotech; intelligent sensors; health alert mapping; Sarara-Amazon link; creative collaboration; climate neutrality; multi-player online games; space exploration; and survivalist romanticism. (From WorldChanging)
  (tags: innovation nanotech environment wethink climate MMOGs)
• Wallace & Gromit teach you innovation
  Never too young to think about innovation. As part of an "agenda to move the UK towards an innovation-based economy", the UK patent office has asked an agency to develop a campaign with Wallace & Gromit to encourage 9-11-years-old to think about innovatio
  (tags: innovation knowledgeeconomy bureaucracy Wallace&Gromit)

Comments

[christianhauck]

what a world: "despite the length, read it".
Thanks, by the way: I'd have missed this good text without you.