The Change Formula: Rule
I attended BIF-5 (The Business Information Factory’s Annual Summit) last week, a great and stimulating experience. One of the speakers was Alan M. Weber taking some topics out of his new book, Rules of Thumb. ...
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October 2009
Premature Evaluation?: Obama Wins Nobel Prize
Check out Premature Evaluation?: Obama Wins Nobel Prize(from The BRAD BLOG: > “The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary e...
Read more →I am convinced by this
Sergey Brin of Google has an op-ed in today’s New York Times, making the case for Google Books: **“But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premi...
Read more →You Commit Three Felonies a Day
Interesting commentary on a new book by Harvey Silvergate called “Three Felonies a Day”. The article also touches on the notion that “Under the English common law that we inherited, a crime requires intent.”, saying: *...
Read more →Jersey Boys
We saw the “Jersey Boys” musical in Chicago last night. It’s a lot of fun, even though the sound system at the “Bank of America Theatre” wasn’t up to par. Actually it was pretty awful. The music is great and the story is inter...
Read more →September 2009
Interesting further commentary on Intuit purchase of Mint
I wrote about the Mint/Intuit deal the other day. Being an avid user, I had mixed feelings about this development. I came across this good post about the transaction, which...
Read more →Upcoming Web Innovators Group meeting
Just found out that the WebInno group is back in session after a summer hiatus. This is one of the best open meetings for techies and entrepreneurs to meet and talk and see each other’s stuff. Here’s the official blurb: > “The Web Innovato...
Read more →Mint being acquired by Intuit: Good or Bad?
I am a fairly avid fan of Mint.com. So it’s with mixed emotions that I read that Mint is being acquired by Intuit. Intuit is a bigger, better known, and so i...
Read more →[geeky] Odd stuff I’ve learned setting up a new Mac
I’ve been in the process of setting up a new computer and in the process, as is expected, discovering long lost files and stuff that is easier or harder to move over. I thought I would capture some of the tidbits because there might be something useful here for you - To set the scene, this is a ne...
Read more →Scott Kirsner wants to put Albert Einstein on a box of wheaties
This is actually a pretty cool idea! Here’s a quote from Scott’s post: > “I’d like to see a Wheaties box featuring Sally Ride, the first American woman in space (who also happened to be an astrophysicist and Stanford PhD); Internet pioneers Tim Berners-Lee and Vint Cerf; the great primatologist Jane Goodall…” (from: Dear General Mills) 
Sunlight Foundation’s Apps for America
Sunlight Foundation is a very cool organization that I’ve been close to. They are involved with many efforts to further government transparency and accountability, often using technology, but not only. Recently they ran their second competition looking for interesting and useful applications and too...
Read more →From Andrew Sullivan: My Take On The Healthcare Debate
I agree with this point from the post My Take On The Healthcare Debate from Daily Dish (Andrew Sullivan): > "If you have to strip out of a bill a mere conversation with seniors about powers-of-attorney for end-of-life decisions, you are not interested in a serious conversation about curtailing healthcare costs."
[GEEKY] Best 24″ Flat Panel Display for a Mac Pro?
I was looking at the Apple LED Cinema Display 24” which, of course, looks gorgeous in the store. But it’s a little expensive ($899, which I was willing to eat.) Looking at the customer [comments](http://store.apple.co...
Read more →DC Lingo – from my notebook
More stuff that I learned at Transparency camp. Every city has their own way of talking. In New York, I guess you talk about wall street and finance and so on. In L.A. you talk about movies and moviestars. In D.C. you talk about all things politics. (In Boston you...
Read more →Insightful (and not positive) article about Barack Obama
Peggy Noonan is always a favorite of mine. Here’s another good op-ed piece, and this time, showing that I am fair and balanced, it’s not positive about Barack Obama and contains some useful insights 🙂 **“They are all n...
Read more →[GEEKY] RSS is about as dead as XML or 120V AC
I’ve seen a couple of “RSS is dead” headlines in the last few days, and even though I am on vacation I couldn’t resist a quick post. [Googling](http://www.google.com/search?q=rss+is+dead&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:offici...
Read more →August 2009
Health Care Stories from the U.K.
Sure, one isolated story doesn’t prove anything, but then our health care debate often seems to be carried on the basis of isolated stories, so here’s an article about the British Health Care system tha...
Read more →Op-ed in Mass High Tech about ResourceMatcher.org
Gavin Murphy (of Annkissam) and I have been talking about the implementation of an idea that has been floating around the philanthropic community for a while, which is leveraging...
Read more →Canada’s cellphone rates among the highest, USA even higher!
Did you think you pay a lot for cellphone coverage? An article in the Globe and Mail about cellphone rates states that while Canada’s cellphone rates are really high compared to other countries, t...
Read more →Insightful tying together of the Health Care “debate”, Woodstock, Kennedy and Mad Men
Check out this insightful editorial in Sunday’s New York by Frank Rich. I thought it was really good. Here’s an excerpt: **““It’s the economy, the facts that millions of people have lost their jobs and millions of others are ...
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