Archive for March, 2009
Clay Shirky’s note on Newspapers
There has been some significant discussion on the blogsphere about Clay Shirky’s recent post on the future (or the lack of it) of news papers. Here is a collection of some of his ideas that appealed a lot to me -
Revolutions create a curious inversion of perception. In ordinary times, people who do no [...]
And the award goes to…
Though its been a couple of days since the award was announced I did not come across a lot of mention of this year’s ACM Turning Award in the blogsphere except on Mark Little’s blog.
This year’s Turing Award (the equivalent of the Noble Prize in computing) has gone to Barbara Liskov for her contributions to [...]