FAST COMPANY: You’re behind a website for a law firm called Robot Robot & Hwang, which turns out to be a joke. But there seems to be a serious idea there, too. What are you up to?
TIM HWANG: The name of the firm has been a great filter. The people who get it are the ones I want to be talking with. Robot Robot & Hwang LLP promotes disruptive technology for the law.
Posted at 10:10 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Marking a significant moment for the future of web-based mobile applications, news publisher The Financial Times has revealed plans to switch off its iPad and iPhone app once and for all.The publisher turned to HTML5, having become disgruntled by the fees and publisher rights demanded by Apple, when submitting applications to the App Store.
via tabtimes.com
Apple acting like Microsoft circa 1990s...
Posted at 09:18 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
According to an amicus brief prepared by Jonathan Band, on behalf of three major library organizations, the motion for partial summary judgment filed in February by the Authors Guild in its lawsuit against the HathiTrust reflects a deeply flawed, distorted view of libraries’ rights. Nevertheless, if a federal judge accepts the Authors Guild argument, Band argues, it would dramatically impact any library’s’ ability to provide the most basic services, “including lending books and providing Internet access to the public.”
Posted at 10:23 AM in Open Access | Permalink | Comments (0)
My young students overwhelmingly don’t understand how people could have believed in the old models. That is good. But on the other hand, many of them say that if you want to be an economist, you still have to deal with all the old guys who believe in their wrong theories, who teach those theories, and expect you to believe in them as well.
Posted at 06:38 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
“There are three secrets to emotional thinking – mystery, sensitivity and intimacy. It is a lot about story telling. Brands need to tell stories on their websites, on their packaging and so on. Make sure your brand and company has a smell, it has a sound, it has a feel and an intimacy with people. Think about how you can build empathy. It is the small things that count and how consumers feel about our brands that count today.”
“Marketing is dead. The role of marketing has changed now. There is nothing new anymore.
Story-telling is alive and well...
Posted at 08:32 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
“This is Big Data for books,” said David Weinberger, co-director of Harvard’s Library Lab. “There might be 100 different attributes for a single object.” At a one-day test run with 15 hackers working with information on 600,000 items, he said, people created things like visual timelines of when ideas became broadly published, maps showing locations of different items, and a “virtual stack” of related volumes garnered from various locations.
Computer-assisted scholarship!
Posted at 10:44 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
by Lewis Lapham:
Maybe our digital technology is still too new. Writing first appears on clay tablets around 3000 BC; it’s another 3,300 years before mankind invents the codex; from the codex to moveable type, 1,150 years; from moveable type to the Internet, 532 years. Forty years haven’t passed since the general introduction of the personal computer; the World Wide Web has only been in place for 20.
Posted at 02:10 PM in The Internet, Writing | Permalink | Comments (0)
TopGraph is proud to announce that the firm is curating the official blog for the Center of Innovation for Nanobiotechnology.
Posted at 04:17 PM in Technology Organizations | Permalink
