“The Victorian Internet” by Tom Standage, business editor at the Economist, offers a concise history of the rise and fall of the telegraph. The well-written history takes into account the parallels that can be drawn between the telegraph and the Internet, as well as the adoption cycle of new technology. Standage intertwines factual statistics with [...]
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“The Victorian Internet” Review
Posted in Evolution & Trends, Review, tagged Standage, telegraph, The Victorian Internet on January 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Review: We’re All Journalists Now by Scott Gant
Posted in Net-centric Economics, Review on August 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In today’s digital age of inexpensive and accessible media production and distribution means, it is clear that “We’re All Journalists Now.”
The book of this title by Scott Gant explores the current era’s transition in journalism and the laws associated with the changing times. Gant’s book examines today’s definition of “journalist” and to whom journalistic rights [...]
The Wealth of Networks Review
Posted in Net-centric Economics, Review on August 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom is an apt subheading for The Wealth of Networks by Yochai Benkler. The book encompasses topics as broad as the name suggests.
The five-hundred page book provides a sweeping take on networks, covering nearly everything from the history of radio to the future of information law and policy. [...]
The Long Tail book review
Posted in Net-centric Economics, Review on July 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The Long Tail. Chris Anderson. Hyperion, 2006. 238 pp.
The digital age has thrown a curve ball at traditional economic theory. Disrupting the institutionalized notion that economics is about choice under scarcity, the Internet has introduced economists to a world of abundance.
Chris Anderson’s book The Long Tail examines the non-traditional markets that emerge when people [...]
