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Monday, March 5, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [5 Mar 2012]

5 March 2012

 Best of the Moment

How Three Germans Are Cloning The Web

Caroline Winter | Businessweek | 2 March 2012

"The most admirable entrepreneurs are those with original ideas, ja? It's a unique gift that you either have or you don't." Says Oliver Samwer, one of three brothers who do not have ideas. They just copy others. And make billions Comments

Threatened

David Remnick | New Yorker | 5 March 2012

Timely analysis. "As an experiment in Jewish power, unique after two millennia of persecution and exile, Israel has reached an impasse. An intensifying conflict of values has put its democratic nature under tremendous stress" Comments

Taking The Long View

Anonymous | Economist | 3 March 2012

Profile of Jeff Bezos as tech world's alpha-animal after Steve Jobs. "Most importantly, he shares with Mr Jobs an innate understanding of the importance of thinking about high-tech products from the customer’s point of view" Comments

School For Quants

Sam Knight | FT | 2 March 2012

Absorbing view of a university lab where the quantitative analysts of the future train. Their algorithms will underpin financial trades, perhaps even future crises. This is where advanced computing, big data and money collides Comments

Russia's New Time Of Troubles

Martin Sixsmith | LA Review of Books | 4 March 2012

Former BBC correspondent considers recent Russian history. Like many, he got the 1991 coup and Yeltsin years wrong. "I’d forgotten the lesson of history, that in Russia, attempts at reform are followed by a return to autocracy" Comments

A Book Is Like A Man

John Steinbeck | Letters Of Note | 29 February 2012

"There you are, Pat. You came in with a box of glory and there you stand with an armful of damp garbage." Steinbeck writes to his editor on the completion of East of Eden. About the frustrations of dealing with editors Comments

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