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Goodbye, Encarta. A cautionary tale for newspapers?

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By John Yemma - Mar. 31 (Opinion) - Wikipedia killed Encarta. Encarta was the early digital encyclopedia. It began life as CD/ROM and increasingly went online. What it never did was truly embrace the power of the Internet. What does that say about how we get information? And about the future of newspapers?

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Software is becoming a media business

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - By Nicholas Carr - Feb. 03 (Comment) - Software is becoming a media business. The Net is not only a universal medium, a distribution channel for words, sounds and images. It is also turning into a universal computer--the machine we use to run software and store data.

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A revolution is taking shape

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Financial Times - By Nicholas Carr - Jan. 30 (Opinion) - No corporate computing system, not even those operated by big companies, can match the efficiency, speed, and flexibility of plants such as Google's. One analyst estimates that Google can carry out a computing task for one-tenth of what it costs a typical company.

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Bill Gates, closet socialist?

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Foreign Policy - By Blake Hounshell - Jan. 25 (Opinion) - If you look at what Gates actually said, he didn't call for governments to seize control of the means of production. Nor, truth be told, did he actually say anything profoundly new. He just wants to push for "an approach where governments, businesses, and nonprofits work together to stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or gain recognition, doing work that eases the world's inequities."

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