What You Should Be Reading This Weekend

February 7th, 2010 admin

At our GigaOM company meeting, Simon Mackie , editor of WebWorkerDaily shared his views on why every weekend he publishes and shares a collection of articles & blog posts he had read over the week. Taking a cue from him and my friend Paul Kedrosky , I am sharing a list of articles/posts which I think you should read this weekend. Rolling Stone Magazine interviews Steve Jobs : One from the archives. This interview conducted in 1994 lays out Jobs’ vision of the future. Much of it is coming true. Google Me to the Moon : In a beautiful nostalgic essay, Angels Riechers writes on Google Maps, GPS and the lost art of navigation & discovery. Davos is for wimps, ninnies, pointless…


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