The Tablet Revolution | Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ)

A very long report I should really read this week. Here’s why I’m probably not going to read the whole thing: It’s chopped into multiple pages to make it more manageable, but there isn’t a single-page view. The printer-friendly version just changes the styles of the current page, it doesn’t allow you to print the [...]

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Taxes, Tax man, Taxi Driver

Brilliant. In a story on the Greek financial situation, the NY Times sourced and quoted Mr. Robbie Cullen a tax collector who, after increased income taxes and wage freezes, had to pick up a second job to make end meet., as a taxi driver. ”I can’t even keep up with my own debts, never mind [...]

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Business Insight: More great, free knowledge from MIT Sloan Management Review

The latest edition of Business Insight is out today and with it, we opened up 21 articles from the MIT SMR archvies. SMR articles normally require registration or paid subscription, they’re yours to read for fee courtesey of Harvard Business School Executive Education. Business Insight is MIT Sloan Management Review’s collaboration with The Wall Street [...]

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3 Things Slate Does Very Well

1. The Explainer Column “Answers to your questions about the news.” Top-notch analysis; crispy clean copy. Ex. “What’s ‘Unlawful Sexual Intercourse’? — And other questions from the Explainer’s Roman Polanski roundup.” 2. The Slatest The read the news so you don’t have to. 3. News Dots Visualizing the relationship of trending news topics. If someone [...]

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MIT Sloan Managment Review / World Innovation Forum 2009

Here’s a list of articles that have appeared in the MIT Sloan Management Review, Wall Street Journal / MIT Sloan Business Insight or SMR blogs. I’m tracking the #wif09 Twitter hashtag to see if other articles we’ve published would be relevant to the #wif09 crowd (on-site or, like me, virtual). Enjoy! Clayton Christensen How Hard [...]

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Business Insight article downloads from MIT Sloan Management Review

MIT Sloan Management Review (where I work) jointly produces a special report in the Wall Street Journal called “Business Insight”. It’s published in print and on WSJ.com & MIT SMR’s site. For further reading on topics raised in Business Insight articles we include links to work SMR has published in the past. As part of [...]

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Example of nice ‘voice’ courtesey of CJR

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Why is there a box cutter on my desk?

I love books, I respect what goes into a quality print publication. I didn’t want to do it. but I had to. Yesterday I took a box cutter to page 175 of Art Kleiner’s terrific book, The Age of Heretics: A History of the Radical Thinkers Who Reinvented Corporate Management (amzn). The figure, Fluctuations in [...]

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Does this mean we’re almost done with this lousy economy?

Seriously, this must mean the end is nigh.

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