What is Rough Type?

Rough Type is an independent blog written and published by Nicholas Carr. It's mainly about the business and cultural implications of information technology, though it wanders into other areas at times.

Nick is a writer, editor, and speaker. He is the author of the book Does IT Matter? and has written articles for many magazines and newspapers. He was formerly the executive editor of the Harvard Business Review. You'll find a longer bio on his personal site.

If you're new to Rough Type, here are a couple of popular stories from the archives that will give you a sense of what goes on here:

The amorality of Web 2.0

The editor and the crowd

The great unread

The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock's avatar

Welcome back to frugal computing

MySpace's vacancy

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Greatest hits

The amorality of Web 2.0

The editor and the crowd

Avatars consume as much electricity as Brazilians

The great unread

The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock's avatar

Seven rules for corporate blogging

Beyond Google and evil

Steve Jobs' devices

MySpace's vacancy

Other writing

The ignorance of crowds

The recorded life

The end of corporate computing

IT doesn't matter

The parasitic blogger

The sixth force

Hypermediation

More

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