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Albert Wenger – Dec 14, 2012
I had a topic in mind for today’s post but in light of the elementary school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, that can wait until another day. As a father of three, the thought of children being killed by a gunman [...] Read more
Work and Value in the Digital Economy
Albert Wenger – Dec 12, 2012
Yesterday I attended MIT’s Roundtable on the Digital Economy. It was a gathering convened by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, the authors of Race Against the Machine, to discuss “Work and Value in the Digital Economy.” The gathering brought together [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Bugs and Debugging
Albert Wenger – Dec 11, 2012
Today will be the last Tech Tuesday for 2012 as I will be taking another one of my information slim down breaks starting next week. In the review of programming topics covered so far, I pointed out that we have [...] Read more
MBA Mondays: Revenue Models – Advertising
Fred Wilson – Dec 10, 2012
My friend Darren Herman helped me think about this post. He sent me this deck along with some thoughts. This slide from Darren's deck is a good place to start this discussion: It is true that the vast majority of [...] Read more
Continuous Improvement Revisited (Bonus: Statistical Process Control)
Albert Wenger – Dec 10, 2012
In 2008, I wrote a mini series about Kaizen and Software Development. Kaizen or continuous improvement asserts the centrality of quality as the only way to achieve the trifecta of quality, speed and cost. Simply put incremental improvements around quality [...] Read more
Feature Friday: @Mentions (On Shapeways)
Albert Wenger – Dec 7, 2012
I’ll be the first to admit that I am a sucker for the command line. Hence I was smiling yesterday, when I saw the Duck Duck Go Terminal hack. But I realize that it is not mass market behavior. So [...] Read more
Ceci N’Est Pas Un … (Internet Defies Existing Categories)
Albert Wenger – Dec 6, 2012
It is fascinating how the Internet is creating new entities and phenomena that defy existing categories. The challenge that arises is that many politicians and regulators still think in these old categories. Here are just a bunch of recent examples. [...] Read more
Teaching Is Humbling (And That’s Good)
Albert Wenger – Dec 5, 2012
I wrote recently how programming is a great tool for learning because you haven’t really understood something until you can explain it to someone else (and in programming that someone else is the computer). Well yesterday in teaching my Skillshare [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Brainy Project Idea
Albert Wenger – Dec 4, 2012
I ended last week’s Tech Tuesday with a call for ideas for a sample project and got a couple of suggestions. Since then though I have come across a great idea for a project. And since I am teaching my [...] Read more