links for 2007-06-13

• China closes in on Europe’s R&D spending
  Often still seen as a place of cheap labour and copy/paste innovation, China is just two years away from catching up on Europe’s level of spending on research and development, according to a EU study. (From FT)
  (tags: China research innovation Europe)
• Software to write, and software to write a novel
  Great essay by Rachel Donadio on how novelists (who mostly don't venture beyond word processors) are using everything from Excel spreadsheets to logistic programs like MS Project to organize their imaginative universes. (From NYT)
  (tags: software writing)
• Innovation lessons from Apple
  1. innovation can come from without as well as within; 2. design new products around the needs of users not the demands of tech; 3. sometimes ignore what the market says it wants today; 4. fail wisely. (From the Economist)
  (tags: innovation Apple design technology)
• Women In Art
  500 years of female portraits in Western art in a 3 minutes multi-morphing animation. Really cool. (thx Susan for the link)
• Analyzing a blog
  Yuvi is 16, lives in Chennai/India, and he's clearly pretty smart, for he has put together a pretty amazing analysis of one of the most popular blogs in the world, Engadget. Worth a look.
  (tags: blogging stats analysis engadget)

Comments

[Yuvi]

Thanks for calling me pretty smart ;)