Newsletter: Issue 006
[Published 22 February 2009]
Management: Line-Item Management
Ad Aged offers some critical insight into how companies are missing the forest for the trees by killing specific line items in their budget.
Technology: The Rise of Personal Informatics
A summary of some recent social-media-like applications that allow people to track very specific metrics about their life. (In related news, Daytum is an incredible application that is currently still in beta, but worth looking into.)
Content: The Automatically Updatable Book: The Danger of Provisional History
Nicholas Carr offers a thoughtful piece about how the current trend of content delivery — digital — leaves itself open to possibly nefarious and not-so-obvious censorship issues by virtue of its intangible nature.