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Deconstructing The Economist

Image via Wikipedia The Economist is my favorite newspaper.  It’s also one of the only profitable news publishers.  Why is it successful while the rest of the industry is gasping for air?  It’s not because they’re extremely innovative in how they charge for or deliver content.  They don’t have a splashy online presence although they [...]

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The Data Storage Conundrum & Oscar Wilde

The Economist is a great “newspaper”, my favorite.  A couple weeks ago they did a special report on “The Data Deluge” which explored the recent and rapid expansion of data, and how to handle it.  There were two parts of the report that caught my eye because they seemed contradictory.  The first was an 1894 [...]

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