Hypermultitasking
The Britannica Blog has been running a forum on multitasking this week, including posts from Maggie Jackson, Howard Rheingold, and Heather Gold. My own small contribution to the discussion appears today and is reprinted below: Thank God for multitasking. Can you imagine how dull life would be if we humans lacked the ability to rapidly and seamlessly shift our focus from one task or topic to anothe
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: What Tim O'Reilly Gets Wrong About the Cloud
October 26, 2008 Technology publisher and Web 2.0 impresario Tim O'Reilly wrote a thought-provoking post today about the dynamics of the nascent cloud computing business. He makes some important and valid points, but his analysis is also flawed, and the flaws of his argument are as revealing as its strengths. O'Reilly begins by taking issue with Hugh MacLeod's contention that, thanks to "power law
Understanding Amazon Web Services
There are two ways to look at Amazon.com: as a retailer, and as a software company that runs a retailing application. Both are accurate, and in combination they explain why Amazon, rather than a traditional computer company, has become the most successful early mover in supplying computing as a utility service. For Amazon, running a cloud computing service is core to its business in a way that it
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The case for Google
« Avatar-human mind meld announced | Main | The means of creativity » The case for Google October 13, 2007 As investors push Google's stock ever higher and Wall Street analysts, those paragons of rationality, dutifully lift their price targets, reasoned assessments of Google's prospects become all the more necessary and valuable. So it was good to see, in this morning's New York Times, a long arti
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Two views of Web 2.0 in business
« Deneutralizing the net | Main | Is a "neutral" net anticompetitive? » Two views of Web 2.0 in business March 21, 2007 Some hard data is coming out this week on the adoption of Web 2.0 tools by companies. Yesterday, Forrester released some results from a December 2006 survey of 119 CIOs at mid-size and larger companies. It indicated that Web 2.0 is being broadly and rapidly brought into enterpris
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: How large is the long tail?
« JotSpot's suite dreams | Main | Is video the new fiber? » How large is the long tail? July 26, 2006 In his column in the Wall Street Journal today, Lee Gomes tries to debunk Chris Anderson's Long Tail theory, and on his Long Tail blog today, Anderson tries to debunk Gomes's debunking. It's an interesting - and important - debate, and I find myself agreeing with both gentlemen. Gomes's main point
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Google's Office add-on
June 06, 2006 Google Spreadsheets, released in beta today, is being touted in both the print and online media as a challenger to the ubiquitous Microsoft Excel - part of Google's mythical "Office killer" suite of online applications. The New York Times headline runs "Google Takes Aim at Excel." CNET says, "Google Spreadsheets turns up heat on Excel." John Battelle is more blunt, summing up the mov
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Will Google win the enterprise?
« Kind of hard to miss | Main | Google's grand ambition » Will Google win the enterprise? May 03, 2006 In the new issue of CIO magazine, Ben Worthen paints a picture of what he calls “the Google-future,” in which the Web computing model pioneered by “the company most everybody loves” comes to dominate business computing. Google, writes Worthen, is poised to lead the Web computing revolution that e
Is Web 2.0 enterprise-ready?
Over the years, big companies have dumped a lot of money into computer systems that promise to automate “knowledge management.” Most of that money has been wasted. No matter how technologically elegant their design, knowledge management “platforms” and “repositories” tend to quickly collapse under the weight of their own complexity. Using them turns out to be more trouble than it’s worth – particu
Nature’s Flawed Study of Wikipedia’s Quality
While most of the discussion at this week’s Open Source Business Conference was refreshingly pragmatic, focused on the commercial role and prospects of open source software, there were a few more cosmic moments. Notably, Mitch Kapor brought a bit of Wikimania to the proceedings, offering a Zen-like “meditation” on Wikipedia as a harbinger of a much broader open-source movement in the future. (Wiki
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Eric Schmidt’s second thoughts
The editor and the crowd
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The supply-side boom