The Internet Intellectual
Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live By Jeff Jarvis (Simon & Schuster, 263 pp., $26.99) READ MORE >>
Washington’s Most Powerful, Least Famous People
Why a Two-Horse Race Is a Problem for Mitt Romney
Neither Rick Perry nor Mitt Romney should have been surprised by a single serious question during Thursday night’s clunker of a debate sponsored by Fox News and an obtrusive Google promoting word clouds and grainy average-citizen videos. But the obviousness of the questions (“Governor Perry … where is your jobs plan?”) meant that viewers were treated to a behind-the-scenes look at the briefing books of the leading candidates as they gave their scripted answers. READ MORE >>
Note This
Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age By Ann M. Blair (Yale University Press, 397 pp., $45) READ MORE >>
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-- Allen West's horrible attack on Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, via Ben Smith at Politico -- People want a debt compromise. People and voters. And Republicans. -- Evgeny Morozov's cover story on Google's fall from grace READ MORE >>
Don't Be Evil
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives By Steven Levy (Simon & Schuster, 423 pp., $26) The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry) By Siva Vaidhyanathan (University of California Press, 265 pp., $26.95) I. READ MORE >>
Taiwanese Baseball Is Awesome
Patrick Dubuque uses Google Chrome translation to look at the statistics from the Taiwanese baseball league. They suggest a game vastly more entertaining than the American version: Dan Reichert is and always has been a trendsetter. ... READ MORE >>
Morning Links
- Citing low participation, Google announced Friday that it will discontinue its online personal health records service, Google Health, beginning in 2012. - Physician and health policy expert Robert Berenson outlines small steps Congress can take to cut Medicare costs now. “It’s about identifying areas where the program is being abused and going after them,” Berenson says. READ MORE >>
