November 2011
11 posts
Tech Firm Implements Employee ‘Zero Email’ Policy →
CEO Thierry Breton of the French information technology company said only 10 percent of the 200 messages employees receive per day are useful and 18 percent is spam. That’s why he hopes the company can eradicate internal emails in 18 months, forcing the company’s 74,000 employees to communicate with each other via instant messaging and a Facebook-style interface.
Read the article here.
NYTimes Steven Pinker: Human Nature’s Pathologist →
By CARL ZIMMER
Published: November 28, 2011
In his latest book, Steven Pinker, a leading advocate of evolutionary psychology, says our brains have produced a far less violent world.
“Videos 10 minutes or longer accounted for 30 percent of the hours watched on...”
– Tablets blow away desktops in video engagement (via mediafuturist)
ShockStat: Self-publishing websites are attracting...
From The Guardian books blog, posted by Allison Flood.
Self-publishing websites are attracting more than 40% of all China’s internet users every month? I didn’t, and I am reeling, a little, from the statistic.
These aren’t Authonomy-esque, publish-and-be-encouraged-by-fellow-writers sorts of sites, though, or even collections of self-published novels. The websites host what is being dubbed...
Artificial intelligence: Difference Engine:... →
futuramb:
In his analysis, Mr Ford noted how technology and innovation improve productivity exponentially, while human consumption increases in a more linear fashion. In his view, Luddism was, indeed, a fallacy when productivity improvements were still on the relatively flat, or slowly rising, part of the exponential curve. But after two centuries of technological improvements, productivity has...