On The Business Pages this week, Tim Wu has a story about the open-versus-closed debate in the technology industry. Here’s a look at the metric Wu developed for assessing the “openness” of companies, and see whether Wu’s theory proves true when applied to Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft: http://nyr.kr/W7Pv9G

If you’re ever feeling bad about yourself, like you don’t “measure up” or you won’t ever achieve greatness, I offer you this simple solution. Go online and write negative reviews. Here are a few I have written that cheered me on down days…

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There are no walls between Stanford and Silicon Valley.  In this week’s issue Ken Auletta asks, should there be? http://nyr.kr/HWXpQw

3. “You’re the baddest bitch.”

- Who did a college student say this to? Click here for Nicholas Thompson’s list of the ten best “tech” quotes of 2011, based on how much he likes the line and how much it mattered: http://nyr.kr/u257Zq