The Daily Lark

Efficiency doesn’t equal meaning. That’s the essence of Nick Carr’s comments on Google. I tend to agree. Knowing involves work – and while search is certainly part of the work, the result doesn’t yield knowing other than at the most basic level.
"It’s not what you know," writes Google’s Marissa Mayer, "it’s what you can [...]

Sean on why Washington needs to keep its eyes on the cloud…
Where the money flows in media… “For the first time, consumers spent more time with media they paid for, like books or cable television, than with primarily ad-supported media, like newspapers and magazines.”
Delicious homepage gets fresh …
Marines Ban Twitter, MySpace, Facebook

Is this really the death of journalism or just plagiarism?
Random acts of traction… hugh nails it… “I put stuff out there- cartoons, prints, a book, a blog post, whatever. Some of it flies, some of it goes nowhere… Eight years of pretty successful blogging later, and I STILL have no way of predicting what will [...]

Malcom Gladwell’s new book… The Outliers: “Outliers is at once Gladwell’s least and most ambitious book. Unlike The Tipping Point and Blink, which took their counterintuitiveness to extremes, the conventional wisdom Gladwell seeks to demolish in Outliers isn’t even really CW anymore. Is there anyone who still believes that “success is exclusively a matter of [...]

Definitely plan to write more on this… Nick points to A recent edition of Science featured a worrying paper by University of Chicago sociologist James A. Evans titled Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship.
Seeking to learn more about how research is conducted online, Evans scoured a database of 34 million articles [...]

Here’s how the New York Times moderates comments… Marci Alboher, NYT blogger, explains her responsibility — here is the Times’ official policy.

Friedman really hits it in this Op-Ed… This sums it up really…
It is great to see that we finally have some national unity on energy policy. Unfortunately, the unifying idea is so ridiculous, so unworthy of the people aspiring to lead our nation, it takes your breath away. Hillary Clinton has decided to line up [...]

NYTimes on innovation and so much more…
“This so-called curse of knowledge, a phrase used in a 1989 paper in The Journal of Political Economy, means that once you’ve become an expert in a particular subject, it’s hard to imagine not knowing what you do. Your conversations with others in the field are peppered with catch phrases and jargon [...]

Peter Griffin over at the NZ Herald links to some of the best Tech Writing of 2007. The University of Michigan gathers some of the best – all free to read….