Peggy Noonan columns are a pleasure to read
I’ve been a Peggy Noonan fan for a while. Yes she is politically more conservative than I am, but she is such a literate writer it is a...
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October 2008
Field notes from a Nature Conservancy meeting
Check out this post Field notes from a Nature Conservancy meeting: > “First, the Nature Conservancy has a strongly science-based policy for making land-purchasing decisions. They take into account...
Read more →Evidence of a Global SuperOrganism
Check out this post Evidence of a Global SuperOrganism: > “So far the proposition that a global superorganism is forming along the internet power lines has been treated as a lyrical metaphor at best, and as a mystical illusion at ...
Read more →Pop!Tech live now!
This has been my all time favorite conference. Unfortunately I can’t make it this year. However, here it is, streaming LIVE from Camden. Wish I was there! Click here to see the live stream from Pop!Tech
Good judgement?
This has been picked up all over the place, so you might have already seen it. I thought it was good. There are many sections that are quotable, I pick just one. You should just read the whole thing, as I said, [picked up](http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/daily-brief/2008/10/17/hedge-fund-manage...
Read more →Halo: Supposed to be the most unbelievably great Video Conferencing system
Halo, from HP. Really? Unfortunately it is outrageously expensive. Can’t find the number online but I heard 50-100K. > “The Halo studio—designed by DreamWorks Animation in partnership with HP—provides life-size, real-time, eye-to-eye conferencing with outstanding audio and no delay. Halo gives the sense of being in the same room together. And best of all, it’s right down the hall.” (from Introducing Halo)
Now I am getting nervous… Cramer wants me to sell everything?
Check out this post Henry Blodget: Should You Really Panic And Sell Everything Like Cramer Says?: > "On the Today Show Monday morning, Jim Cramer told investors to sell everything and get out of the stock market. A Wall Street friend described this as the market’s "Munchian scream moment."" (from: from Huffington Post: Front Page) …
Esther Dyson on the Coming Ad Revolution
Esther Dyson wrote this very interesting Wall Street Journal article about how online advertising is changing. This article is very relevant to my new product, SWIFT, which I have hinted about ...
Read more →September 2008
Big Numbers
Like everyone else, I’ve been following the drama on Wall Street, Main Street, Washington DC and so on. Bless their hearts, they have posted a document called“firstdraft.pdf” to allow the masses to examine the bill which will authorize the bailout (a bit of irony?) It’s way over my head, but a quick scan does reveal some rather large numbers being bandied about… 
Wow!!!!
A couple of interesting articles
A very interesting article in Edge.org (by the way, an always interesting site.) This one is called Moral Psychology and the misunderstanding of religion: > “I study morality from every angle I can find. Morality is one of those basic asp...
Read more →Surprising and against conventional wisdom: Americans still love to buy DVDs
Interesting article about the sale of DVDs in Silicon Alley Insider: > “Just a reality check on the video download/rental business: There really isn’t one yet. At least not compared to good old-fashioned DVD sales and rentals.” (from “Forget iTunes: Americans still love to buy DVDs“) Interesting article. I wonder, what about music CDs?
iTunes 8 Genius is calling home
I just downloaded the new ITunes 8. It has this new thing called the iTunes Genius which seems like it is going to help me create play lists or something. Maybe it’s gonna out Pandora Pandora or Last.FM. Don’t know exactly what I am getting but I pushed the big red button and got it enabled. I got c...
Read more →Sign the letter!
Maybe this is one more of the futile petitions that we send around and to each other, but the goal rings true to me: > “It is critical that our policymakers turn their attention to our deteriorating financial health which, if not addressed responsibly and quickly, will cause severe economic hardship for our nation and its citizens, especially the young and future generations.” (from “Letter to Candidates”) Read the whole thing here, and if you like, sign it!
Ambient Awareness: on being ‘digitally’ close
A good article in the New York Times Magazine about the so-called ‘ambient awareness’ phenomenon: > “Social scientists have a name for this sort of incessant online contact. They call it “ambient awareness.” It is, they say, very much ...
Read more →Indeed, the new Microsoft/Bill Gates/Jerry Seinfeld ad makes no sense!
Gizmodo shows the first ad, and even though I love Jerry and like Bill, it, indeed, makes no sense. Maybe I am just to literal minded.
Beware of Freeconomics
The quote below is from this post from ReadWriteWeb > While we are certainly seeing more and more examples of products being given away for free, it is **not necessarily a good thin...
Read more →Where can I find non-shrill political coverage?
I read the New York Times, and magazines like The Atlantic and The New Yorker, and web sites like Salon. Each of these, IMO are relatively thoughtful and interesting and a good way to keep...
Read more →TSA and photo IDs
An interesting article from Bruce Schneier about why he believes that TSA requirement of photo IDs is a waste of time: > “The problem is that it is unverified passenger names that get checked against the no-fly list. At security checkpoints, the TSA just matches IDs to whatever is printed on the boa...
Read more →So it’s true: Google is releasing a new browser to compete with IE and FireFox
(updated at 12:08pm Sept 2) > “In a posting on a company site Monday, Google indicated that a version of the software, called Chrome, would be available for download on Tuesday. It said the software is designed to make it faster to browse the Web and easier to run applications without downloading ...
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