7 World Trade Center, the 47 story office building adjacent to the Twin Towers which was not hit by a plane and fell in suspicious fashion, has been the focal point of conspiracy theories eluding to the September 11, 2001 attacks being an inside job (a dastardly plan by government powers to launch a “war on terror” - in an aim to keep power, line pockets, and otherwise be dastardly and evil). After three years of research and investigation, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has just released a 915 page report explaining that fire, debris, and other factors caused the falling of 7 World Trade Center. Will the Loose Change freaks relax? Probably not.
Fire, Not Explosives, Felled Third Tower on 9/11, Report Says (NY Times)
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Nicholas Carr is a management guru on the forefront of business ideas concerning technology. His most famous piece, “Does IT Matter?” featured in Harvard Business Review, asserted at the height of companies investing in Information Systems technology that IT would move toward commoditization and could not provide competitive advantage.
Carr recently inked “Is Google Making Us Stoopid?” Published in The Atlantic, Carr asks if the nature of the Internet – short posts, aggregated info, fast results, immediate gratification - can actually change the way humans think. He worries that his ten years online have rendered him intellectually lazy and incapable of delving into long, complex writing and ideas.
I have recently felt pressure to shorten blog posts because people don’t have the patience to read through all the content. You can see in my marketing blog how I tried to put a few quick thoughts in short posts, especially concerning Steve Ballmer’s failed Microsoft bid for Yahoo!. However, because I was trying to limit the quantity, I only covered a small facet of the story and that facet has been rendered irrelevant by the developments of the last month. I always felt that, if I am going to write at all, I should really dig in and examine all sides of a story, as I think I did concerning MySpace vs. Facebook. I am old school and, although I am blogging now, I don’t think I have been corrupted yet. In grad school, I got my news from the daily New York Times – the hard copy. I read most of the articles in the World and Business sections. I read books also. But since starting my new job, most of what I read is online. I may develop the habits Carr mentions. And I feel the pressure to keep this post short. I may be joining the trend after all. Goodbye now…
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