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February 07, 2008
We all deserve our four minutes of YouTube fame, and mine arrives today with this video, in which I discuss some of the themes of The Big Switch with Greg Jarboe of Search Engine Strategies:
Now that I've boiled the book down for YouTube, my next challenge will be to Twitter it.
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Aren't books' subtitles their twitter messages?
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at February 7, 2008 05:42 PM
...my next challenge will be to Twitter it.
Nick, where can we get the "Big Switch" tee shirts and coffe mugs? I like to get them to match my "Does II matter" underware.
Posted by: Linuxguru1968 at February 7, 2008 07:20 PM
Underware? Is that what you wear beneath your middleware?
Posted by: Nick Carr at February 7, 2008 08:25 PM
Youtube + "underware"+ compulsively-readable book = classic in the making!
I also got special mention - "non-techie".
Get on with the posts, Mr. Carr!
Posted by: friarminor at February 13, 2008 09:53 PM
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The Shallows
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"Future Shock for the web-apps era" -Fast Company
"Ominously prescient" -Kirkus Reviews
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The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock's avatar
Flight of the wingless coffin fly
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The end of corporate computing
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