Wednesday, March 31, 2010

March 2010 Early Indications: Behaviorism, Online

›
One of the consequences of the ubiquity of our communications tools is a shift away from fascination with and the need for expertise in the ...
Saturday, February 27, 2010

Early Indications February 2010: Ticket Punching

›
As one surveys the landscape of industries whose business models have been transformed by the Internet, airline ticketing and travel agents ...
Monday, January 25, 2010

Early Indications January 2010: Do You Remember?

›
Looking back over the 30 or so years of the personal computing era, I'm struck by how easily we discard the past, how often we miss a re...
Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Early Indications December 2009: Yet Another Predictions Issue

›
In this last week of 2009, it's scary to think that it was a full ten years ago that the IT profession was holding its collective breath...
Monday, November 23, 2009

November 2009 Early Indications: Prediction Scorecard

›
As is our custom, every November we revisit the previous year's predictions. Given that one of the dominant themes of 2009 has been sta...
Saturday, October 31, 2009

Early Indications October 2009: The Exploding Mobile Web

›
This newsletter is about numbers, specifically these: 9 103,000 66 4,932 60 100,000 We'll take these in turn. According to Morgan Stanle...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Early Indications September 2009: Universities and an Information Economy

›
Apart from asserting, with Emil Faber, that "Knowledge is good," there is little one can say with certainty about the role of the ...
Monday, August 31, 2009

Early Indications August 2009: Informational Geography

›
As the U.S. economy has shifted away first from agriculture and then manufacturing as its core activity, numerous side effects have emerged....
Monday, July 27, 2009

July 2009 Early Indications: Love & Work part II

›
Taking as our cue Freud's famous dictum that people are defined by their love and their work, last month's letter looked at online d...