For anyone wanting to challenge their thinking about the world of tomorrow-which is with us today-I highly recommend What Would Google Do? by Jeff Jarvis. He offers us fascinating insights into how transformational our thinking and appro...
Clive Gillinson became Executive and Artistic Director of Carnegie Hall in July 2005, having been appointed the previous season. He was a member of London's Philharmonia Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra cello section. He was elected to the Board of Directors of the self-governing orchestra in 1976, also serving as Finance Director. He was appointed Knight Bachelor in the Queen's Birthday Honors List 2005, the only orchestra manager ever to be honored with a Knighthood.
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Sara Nelson is a critic for The Daily Beast and the former editor in chief of Publishers Weekly. She is the author of the bestselling So Many Books, So Little Time.
On Monday, Amazon introduced its new electronic reader. Sara Nelson shares the e-books she'd most like read. Plus: A review of the Kindle 2.
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Jeff Jarvis is the proprietor of Buzzmachine.com. He also writes the new-media column for the Guardian and was the creator and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly. He is on the faculty of the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism.
In an excerpt from What Would Google Do?, media blogger and editor Jeff Jarvis muses over government run by a Google guy.
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Dave Kansas is president of FiLife, a personal-finance joint venture between Dow Jones and IAC Corp. Previously, Kansas was editor of the Wall Street Journal's Money & Investing section and author of The Wall Street Journal's Complete Money & Investing Guidebook.
What Would Google Do? author Jeff Jarvis on which industries the search giant will take over next, how the company could blow it, and why life is just a beta.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
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