Newsletter 600
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus
FiveBooks interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]How Three Germans Are Cloning The Web
Links:
5. http://b.rw/yvLnyo
Caroline Winter | Businessweek | 2 March 2012
"The most admirable entrepreneurs are those with original ideas, ja?
It's a unique gift that you either have or you don't." Says Oliver
Samwer, one of three brothers who do not have ideas. They just copy
others. And make billions [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-three-germans-are-cloning-web
[7]Threatened
Links:
7. http://b.rw/wtrGjk
David Remnick | New Yorker | 5 March 2012
Timely analysis. "As an experiment in Jewish power, unique after two
millennia of persecution and exile, Israel has reached an impasse. An
intensifying conflict of values has put its democratic nature under
tremendous stress" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/threatened
[9]Taking The Long View
Links:
9. http://b.rw/xCUoac
Anonymous | Economist | 3 March 2012
Profile of Jeff Bezos as tech world's alpha-animal after Steve Jobs.
"Most importantly, he shares with Mr Jobs an innate understanding of
the importance of thinking about high-tech products from the customer’s
point of view" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/taking-long-view
[11]School For Quants
Links:
11. http://b.rw/xbmLGS
Sam Knight | FT | 2 March 2012
Absorbing view of a university lab where the quantitative analysts of
the future train. Their algorithms will underpin financial trades,
perhaps even future crises. This is where advanced computing, big data
and money collides [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/school-quants
[13]Russia's New Time Of Troubles
Links:
13. http://b.rw/wkdsbd
Martin Sixsmith | LA Review of Books | 4 March 2012
Former BBC correspondent considers recent Russian history. Like many,
he got the 1991 coup and Yeltsin years wrong. "I’d forgotten the lesson
of history, that in Russia, attempts at reform are followed by a return
to autocracy" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/russias-new-time-troubles
[15]A Book Is Like A Man
Links:
15. http://b.rw/x3yfAd
John Steinbeck | Letters Of Note | 29 February 2012
"There you are, Pat. You came in with a box of glory and there you
stand with an armful of damp garbage." Steinbeck writes to his editor
on the completion of East of Eden. About the frustrations of dealing
with editors [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/book-man
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Anne Applebaum on Memoirs of Communism
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/anne-applebaum-on-memoirs-communism
The traumas of the 20th century hit Eastern Europe hard – a region of
changing borders, uncertain identity, and shattering of moral norms.
The journalist and communism expert selects books that capture the
spirit of the age [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/anne-applebaum-on-memoirs-communism
Featured Special Report
[19]Putin's Russia
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/putins-russia
A disputed election, protests, accusations of being a mafia state. As
Vladimir Putin prepares to take back the presidency, what kind of
country does he lead? [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/putins-russia
Reader Recommendations
@[21]nuzav The Wilson Quarterly: Revisiting the Great Depression by
Robert J. Samuelson: [22]t.co/J6rT6b5K via @[23]AddThis [24]#browsings
[25]More like this
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23. http://twitter.com/AddThis
24. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
25. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[26]Book of the Day
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26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/trusted-mole-by-milos-stankovic
[27]Trusted Mole by Milos Stankovic
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/trusted-mole-by-milos-stankovic
[28]Martin Bell says: “I think it’s the best book to come out on the
Bosnian war. If you want to understand how wars develop, it’s
absolutely the perfect read and really gripping” [29]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/martin-bell-on-reportage-and-war
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]12 Years of Putin in Two Minutes
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/12-years-putin-two-minutes
How many references can you spot without using the pause button?
[31]More videos
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31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Dominic Lawson, on government
Links:
32. http://www.editorialintelligence.com/ebulletin/viewonline.php
"If your policy is one of retrenchment and austerity, it is
advisable to come up with something other than economic growth as a
measure of your success"
[33]More quotes
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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