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The Amazon Bundle: Why the Retail Giant Is Like the Cable Company of the Future - The Atlantic

Being the starting point for online purchases is everything: Google’s biggest source of online advertising comes from searches with a shopping intent. Why look anywhere else when only Amazon will get it to you today?

Reorganizing the media industry will be messy, but solutions remain unclear - The Next Web

Finally, we cannot negate the role that traditional media companies play in producing what is essentially a public good. Given its special status we citizens must also re-think whether or not we want to rely on for-profit and sometimes agenda-driven media companies as well as state-controlled organizations to filter the information we consume.

OLPC Project Puts Tablets In The Hands Of Formerly Illiterate Children With Amazing Results | TechCrunch

The hut became a focal point for the town’s children, and the kids loved their tablets so much that they slept with them. One kid would learn how to launch a Disney movie and the others would follow. Another kid learned how to unlock the built-in camera. It was a form of viral education that we see, under the surface of many childhood interactions, every day. They learned without learning.

Welcome to the new reputation economy (Wired UK)

reputation is largely contextual, so it’s tricky to transport it to other situations. Sure, you might be an impeccable Airbnb host, but does that mean I would trust you with my car?