I regularly enjoy Nick Carr's writing. Like many writers that I
enjoy, he's insightful and witty.
Additionally, he's really a writer. I don't mean "he's written
books" but that, beyond presenting information, he has skill in the
craft of presenting. He is able to skillfully paint a vivid mental
picture of something relatively obtuse in few words. A great
example is
his recent blog post on cloud computing: On the trail of the
itinerant computer.
Bill Thompson noted has that ... the ability to shift data and
data processing effortlessly across borders, the "computing
atmosphere" may get very foggy very fast, with the cloud turning
"into a miasma ... heavy with menace." Through the noxious mist,
Thompson can even hear hounds baying.
That quote sampled from a post that is otherwise fairly
technical in its discussion of cloud computing & the problem of
national borders and hard-to-answer question of "Where is the
computer?"
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Another recent article of his - on the Atlantic: "Is
Google making us stupid?"
Also, check out the "Greatest Hits" sidebar on his blog for
other good reads.