There’s a provocative new opinion piece by Marc Andreessen on the future of the news media.
He envisions a “golden future” for journalism, one in stark contrast to how industry insiders view the trajectory of their once-rich personal gravy train.…
Author Archive | Ken McCarthy
Progress and Anti-Progress
Three stories in today’s paper…
Story #1
Engineering-graphics students at Rockland Catholic High School in Rockland, IL are creating prosthetic digits with a 3D printer for a girl born without fingers on her left hand.
If her family were to …
Netscape…Founded 20 years ago today
By Ken McCarthy in Business advice, inspiration, Internet history, Internet insight, Videos to Watch
This is not a story about how someone learned “one simple trick” and made millions.
This is a story about how to do business right.
If you’re ever going to make millions, this is the kind of story you need …
Netscape: The original Internet start up
There were a few businesses on the Internet before Netscape, but it’s not exaggeration to say that the chances are overwhelmingly good that if you’re using the Web, you’re using it because this company existed.
In the world of business …
Dismantling the romantic fantasy of journalism and welcoming a frank future of sponsored research
Archeologists believe they’ve found the first example of journalism on cuneiform clay tablets produced in ancient Mesopotamia that they say date back nearly 5,000 years…
Actually, no they didn’t.
There is nothing approximating journalism found in Ancient Mesopotamia, or Ancient …
The biggest roadblock to learning and how to overcome it
This is a post script to On Learning – and failing to learn – languages and other hard things.
On the surface, “On Learning” is about language learning, but it applies to the process of learning any difficult subject.…