World Wide Web – Thang Nguyen 555

11/10/2012

Becoming yourself

Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Prize Winner, told a story (in the Black Book) about a writer whose wife left him for no reason at all. Restless and sleepless (and perhaps facing writer’s block) he imagined living out his former single self ( the status he now found himself in ). After a while, the mind played trick…

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10/03/2012

Your story

During the 60’s, when computers were too limited for personal use, Andy Warhol had already predicted that in the future (which is NOW) each of us would have 15 minutes of fame (just like his signature Campbell soup ). Naturally, he couldn’t have predicted the rise of social media which upend traditional broadcast media, turning it…

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09/17/2011

Web and Cable experience

In the early days of the Web, I asked my friend what he did online. The answer: ” I just browse from one magazine to the next (static), and listen to ethnic radio channels “. This was pre-YouTube era. We have spent an enormous amount of time curating content that is put out there: radio signals,…

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12/17/2010

A Face w/ a name

A few years ago, TIME’s Person of the year got a face with a name. In fact, he manages to drag in a billion faces and names with him. The last time someone wearing pajamas in public yet got that much publicity was John Lennon (who invited the press into his honeymoon suite). Mark was…

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12/16/2010

Filter builder

Building up our filtering capacity does not mean firming up our prejudice. But no matter what we do, we can only watch an average of 4 hours of TV and a few hours on the Web, mobile or stationary. So we rely on thought leaders. Two-step information flow. Except this time, information flow through a…

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12/08/2010

Time to take stock

So this is Christmas, what have you done? Year-end review and future projection. Cloud strategy? Hiring and firing decision? Productivity squeeze and cost cutting? (female shoppers said they planned to spend 1% less as compared to last year). Time to take stock, at individual and institutional level. New calendar. Hollywood is going to Detroit (greener…

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