Techn | nerd-dom. Interactive advertising. News, feeds, reads. Upper Mismanagement. One of the themes that came up while I was profiling White House manufacturing czar Ron Bloom earlier this fall was managerial talent. A lot of people talk about reviving the domestic manufacturing sector, which has shed almost one-third of its manpower over the last eight years. But some of the people I spoke to asked a slightly different question: Even if you could reclaim a chunk of those blue-collar jobs, would you have the managers you need to supervise them? It’s not obvious that you would. Since 1965, the percentage of graduates of highly-ranked business schools who go into consulting and financial services has doubled, from about one-third to about two-thirds. And while some of these consultants and financiers end up in the manufacturing sector, in some respects that’s the problem.
How did we get to this point? After World War II, large corporations went on acquisition binges and turned themselves into massive conglomerates. Noam Scheiber is a senior editor of The New Republic. Wandereye. Wandereye's UX Bookmarks on Delicious. Wandereye's IA Bookmarks on Delicious. Wandereye's inspiration Bookmarks on Delicious. Wandereye's design Bookmarks on Delicious. Wandereye's UXD Bookmarks on Delicious. Wandereye's humor Bookmarks on Delicious. Wandereye's toread Bookmarks on Delicious. Yimmys Yayo™ Search 4.0: Social Search Engines & Putting Humans Back In Searc. Previously I’ve covered what I dubbed Search 3.0, how search engines have evolved toward blending vertical or specialized results into “regular” web listings.
Today, the step beyond that: Search 4.0, how personal, social and human-edited data can be used to refine search results. The Search Evolution So Far Before going ahead, let me summarize what I covered in my past article, in terms of how search engines have changed over time to create and rank the results you get when doing a search: Search 1.0 (1996): Pages ranked using “on-the-page” criteriaSearch 2.0 (1998): Pages ranked using “off-the-page” criteriaSearch 3.0 (2007): Vertical search results blended into regular search results The evolution above is not perfect. As for Search 2.0, looking at off-the-page criteria such as links, Google kickstarted that heavily in 1998. To cap off the caveats, the evolution above is not the only way search engines can evolve. Search 4.0: The Human Factor Onward to Search 4.0! Enter humans. Twitter Directory and Search, Find Twitter Followers.