Newsletter 342
[1]A Brief History Of The Corporation: 1600 to 2100
Links:
1. http://b.rw/mB4pNI
Venkat | RibbonFarm | 8 June 2011
Not so brief actually but outstanding on globalisation and the end of the
corporation. We are entering an era of Coesian growth which "is
fundamentally not measured in aggregate terms at all. It is measured in
individual terms" [2]Comments
Links:
2. http://thebrowser.com/articles/brief-history-corporation-1600-2100
[3]The Fall Of The House Of Assad
Links:
3. http://b.rw/l90eVX
Robin Yassin-Kassab | Foreign Policy | 10 June 2011
Syria is slipping towards war. Possibly Libya-type scenario with opposition
attacking regime from safe haven area in north. Other possibility is
sectarian war. Assad's tactic is to simulate it. Risk is it could become
real [4]Comments
Links:
4. http://thebrowser.com/articles/fall-house-assad
[5]This Is Not The way I'd Imagined Bill Gates
Links:
5. http://b.rw/ifJ71J
Caroline Graham | Daily Mail | 11 June 2011
Rare interview with Microsoft founder. Discusses his family, wealth and
celebrity, and commitment to philanthropy. "Understanding science and
pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied"
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/not-way-id-imagined-bill-gates
[7]The Greatest Paper That Ever Died
Links:
7. http://b.rw/jIOYc4
Alex French & Howie Kahn | Grantland | 8 June 2011
"Radically brilliant. Absurdly ahead of its time. Ridiculously poorly
planned. The National Sports Daily changed everything about sports
journalism — and torched $150m in the process." An oral history, told by
those who were there [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/greatest-paper-ever-died
[9]"The Book of Mormon": No Offense
Links:
9. http://b.rw/lXkHIe
James Fenton | NYRB | 12 June 2011
"South Park" team produces musical about Mormon missionaries. What could
possibly go wrong? And yet: "When the audience rises to its feet at the end,
a blow has been struck on behalf of the Mormons and their crazy African
adventure" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/book-mormon-no-offense
[11]Dazzling Photographs Of Earth From Above
Links:
11. http://b.rw/igcT37
Erin Wayman | Smithsonian | 9 June 2011
Collection of extraordinary satellite images of earth more at home in an art
museum than a scientific archive. From mountains to glaciers and deserts.
Easy to agree that "nature often inspires art, but sometimes it is art"
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/dazzling-photographs-earth-above
FiveBooks Interview
[13]Dorian Lynskey on Protest Songs
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/dorian-lynskey-on-protest-songs
The journalist and author tells us what happens when protest meets pop
music, which book inspired Springsteen and where hip-hop is most potent
today
Featured Topic
[14]Journalism
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/topics/journalism
Find out what it's really like to be a journalist. Read about the shadowy
world of foreign reporting, learn what makes a great article and delve into
the history of journalism
Reader Recommendations
@[15]ManchurianDevil RT @[16]tnr: The origins of #[17]Obama's legal
philosophy, and the troubling
consequences [18]ow.ly/5goxf #[19]longreads #[20]browsings
Links:
15. http://twitter.com/ManchurianDevil
16. http://twitter.com/tnr
17. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#Obama
18. http://ow.ly/5goxf
19. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#longreads
20. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
Book of the Day
[21]Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay
Shirky
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/here-comes-everybody-power-organizing-without-organizations-by-clay-shirky
[22]Richard Tofel says: "It’s the smartest thing that I have read, of book
length, about social media and what it means and will mean"
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/richard-tofel-on-changing-business-journalism
Video of the Day
[23]You Just Don't Get It!
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/videos/you-just-dont-get-it
A montage of cinema's most pervasive scripting cliché
Quote of the Day
[24]Peter Greenaway, on acting
Links:
24. http://uwainsl.blogspot.com/2011/05/peter-greenaway-interview-following.html
"An actor is someone who has been trained to pretend he is not being
watched"