- Why e-books will soon be obsolete (and no, it’s not just because of DRM) | Gyrovague
Provocative piece which I think underestimates the ability of ebooks to adapt and overestimates the power of us in smaller markets to affect corporate behaviour. But I may be wrong.
- Paper Knife: The Shortlist Project
A comparative and thorough look at the Clarke shortlist.
- The A/B Test: Inside the Technology That’s Changing the Rules of Business | Epicenter | Wired.com
Fascinating piece on data and marketing.
- “I Wanted to Predict Elections with Twitter and all I got was this Lousy Paper” – A Balanced Survey on Election Prediction using Twitter Data
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Oh, the Lib-Dem supporters I know are very unhappy about the leadership/representatives. They aren’t blind to it, so much as really unhappy that their party doesn’t actually work the way it was sold to them (i.e. democracy/party conference is what sets policy).