Google UK has launched its own quarterly, a monothematic digital magazine. The first issue is on data, this text on coping with data obesity. Hal actually not being the computer from A Space Odyssey, but Hal Varian, Chief Economist at Google.

From Weekly Filet #12, in March 2011.

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