Stephen Baker
Senior Technology Writer, Business Week
Author of The Numerati, former BusinessWeek writer
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http://twitter.com/stevebaker
http://thenumerati.net
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1989 tweets
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Just got back from Abu Dhabi and find that former colleagues are getting laid off at BusinessWeek. It was expected, but still hurts.
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From Abu Dhabi: Korean wireless chief warns of data overload. http://thenumerati.net/index.cfm?postID=546
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Flying to Abu Dhabi media forum this pm. http://tinyurl.com/y9jgu6z First step: Figuring out how to get from Newark to JFK.
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Joel Achenbach on talking to machines, and machine-like people http://tinyurl.com/yb55f4q
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Thoughts of Starbux eavesdropper: Parents who feed their kids facts nonstop interrupt more serious (and fun) learning.
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Went to see 33Across yesterday and talked with @ericwheeler about friendship data http://thenumerati.net/index.cfm?postID=543
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RT @robenfarzad Fact: the 10-yr of Sep 11 will be the 20-year anniv of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit." (and the 40 of Who's Next)
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Afterthought, the book I'm reading talks about third age of math. Wish I'd read this before writing Numerati... http://tinyurl.com/5aftha
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For podcasts over phone, what kind of hook-up should I buy? A cheapo I bought at Radio Shack bombed. Ideas? Thanks.
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danah boyd: "we have yet to find the digital equivalent of alcohol." http://tinyurl.com/ye3qnbv (ex @jobsworth )
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Nick Felton video, studying the data of one American week: PopTech : http://bit.ly/d4Niks via @addthis
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Microsoft's anti-Google weapon: Open-source Bing http://tinyurl.com/ybzpdop
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An essay of mine on "What should we store in our heads?" http://smartdatacollective.com/Home/25089
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Study: "MIT students are having less much sex than their peers (elsewhere) — but significantly more than no sex." http://tinyurl.com/ygrrt8o
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Dinner tonight in Tribeca. Looking for something to see or do downtown this pm. Suggestions?
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Reading: http://twitthis.com/hi8ujp
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Cellphone died. Thinking of HTC Droid, but worried about battery life. Might get boring phone w good battery and stick with iTouch for fun.
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How Bloomberg could [further] drag down BusinessWeek http://thenumerati.net/index.cfm?postID=528
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Went to Frick Collection yestrdy. Great Rembrants,Vermeers, Grecos. And fantastic zooming on the Website. http://tinyurl.com/ye62r9u
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For baseball geeks: great stat analysis about overuse of fastballs http://www.tangotiger.net/files/kovash_levitt_w15347.pdf
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Listening to Dylan singing about Ciudad Juarez and feeling sad about wartorn place I used to roam on bike.
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@jason_pontin What a beautiful summation of horror. Your single tweet (on Taliban) changed my thinking entirely.
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Memo to Jaron Lanier: What about snow? http://thenumerati.net/index.cfm?postID=524
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Jeopardy whiz Ken Jennings on board games and aging: "the “game neurons” in your brain all die off ...the day you turn fifty."
