Nicholas Carr

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90 articles

First Reported May 04 2012 - Updated May 04 2012 - 1 Documents

Amazon.com Inc

Gazing Into The Cloud, From Storage to Servers

Apple and Amazon want to store your music in 'the cloud,' while companies from Google to Microsoft to Zoho offer ways to wrangle your office documents there. But what exactly is the cloud, and is the time right to start using it? Technology experts Tony ... [ Published May 04 2012 by WNYC ]

Entities: Nicholas Carr, Zoho, Amazon.com Inc, Apple Inc, Microsoft Corporation

First Reported Apr 30 2012 - Updated Apr 30 2012 - 1 Documents

The Digital Human: new Radio 4 series explores what the web tells us about ourselves

speaks to presenter Aleks Krotoski about The Digital Human, a new Radio 4 series exploring the impact of the web on society Whats the difference between a 19th-century naturalist pinning butterflies to a board and a blogger posting her nature photos online ... [ Published Apr 30 2012 by Telegraph ]

Entities: Aleks Krotoski, The Digital Group, Peter McManus

First Reported Apr 24 2012 - Updated Apr 24 2012 - 1 Documents

Jonathan Franzen

The lure of books

Jonathan Franzen, who won the 2001 National Book Award for his novel The Corrections, does not like e-books because they seem impermanent. “A screen always feels like we could delete that, change that, move it around. So for a literature-crazed person ... [ Published Apr 24 2012 by Christian Century ]

Entities: E-book, Jonathan Franzen, Library of America, Nicholas Carr

First Reported Apr 21 2012 - Updated Apr 21 2012 - 1 Documents

Coming to life on the page

Reader rating:None yet. Without books, existence would be unimaginable and lonely for many writers and readers.Reading Andrew Relph's beautiful memoir about the importance of books and reading in his life reminded me of a story told to me by my university ... [ Published Apr 21 2012 by Melbourne Age ]

Entities: Carmen Callil, Blake Morrison, Mark Haddon, Tim Parks, Nicholas Carr

First Reported Apr 05 2012 - Updated Apr 05 2012 - 1 Documents

Mark Haddon

Let's talk about text

STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND READ THIS!Vintage, $12.95AT THIS transformational moment when notions of why, what and in what medium we read are in flux, this slim collection of 10 essays by a mixture of writers and a couple of researchers offers elegant, ... [ Published Apr 05 2012 by Canberra Times ]

Entities: Mark Haddon, Virago Press, Carmen Callil, Blake Morrison, State Library of Victoria

First Reported Dec 18 2011 - Updated Dec 18 2011 - 1 Documents

Steven Pinker

Untangling the web: attention

This article appeared on p22 of the The New Review section of the Observer on Sunday 18 December 2011. It was published on guardian.co.uk at 00.05 GMT on Sunday 18 December 2011. It was last modified at 00.07 GMT on Sunday 18 December 2011.Distractions, ... [ Published Dec 18 2011 by Observer ]

Entities: Vaughan Bell, distraction, Nicholas Carr, Steven Pinker

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Gazing Into The Cloud, From Storage to Servers [ Published May 04 2012 by WNYC ]
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How the brain gets creative [ Published Apr 26 2012 by CBC ]
The lure of books [ Published Apr 24 2012 by Christian Century ]
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Coming to life on the page [ Published Apr 21 2012 by Melbourne Age ]
Let's talk about text [ Published Apr 05 2012 by Canberra Times ]
Untangling the web: attention [ Published Dec 18 2011 by Observer ]