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Check out this post If you think stronger regulation is a good answer, heed Buffett: > “Warren Buffett gave a three-hour interview in August. Here’s an interesting [bit from the transcript](http://www.clusterstock.com/2...
Read more →I recently saw the movie Hacking Democracy. It’s absolutely fascinating and basic background for anyone interested in election reform. In it you learn about some of the heroes of election reform, including Harri Hursti ...
Read more →Ethan Zuckerman writes a great piece about how Paul Simon’s Graceland album came to be, with some of the historical context, backstory and being a xenophile. A great read: > “At its best, Graceland sounds like Simon is encountering forces to large for him to understand or control. He’s riding on top...
Read more →This is from today’s New York Times Magazine. I didn’t know Virginia Heffernan was funny! > “Actually, the iPhone probably sips, like a lipsticky girl with a vodka drink. It usual...
Read more →Check out this post Meeting24.tv Keeps Online Meetings Simple: > "Like Utagoe Live 100, meeting24.tv also has a similar minimalistic feel to it, which is supposed to make it easy for anyone to use – even those with little web experience. The service is based on the assumption that other online meeting solutions such as TokBox (which we covered three times), Cisco’s Webex, Polycom or Skype are just too complex. " (from: from TechCrunch) I tried it, at least by myself. It seems to work but I am not sure that I am getting the most performance out of my Logitech webcam. Pretty cool.
Who cares about equities traders leaving Morgan Stanley. Not me, but check out this post Top Equities Trader Leaves Morgan Stanley: > "We’re convinced that no one would actually use the "sp...
Read more →Check out this post NBC’s Boston affiliate isn’t going to show Leno’s new show: > "WHDH, the NBC affiliate in Boston (I’m watching it right now) says that they’re not going to show Leno’s new 10PM show. Starting in September, the station is going to show local news at 10PM instead!" (from: from TV Squad) This is pretty interesting. I was wondering how the world could give up the 10:00pm time slot, each and every day on NBC. So ‘our’ station is choosing to opt out. Didn’t realize this was even possible!
I’ve gotten very interested in Election Reform lately, and I’ve delved into how the overall voting system works, technically but also politically and procedurally. There are so many simple and not so simple ways in which election results can be manipulated that it makes my head spin. I was at FooCa...
Read more →I spent 5 minutes perusing this site, and it looks really good. Wow, makes me want to be back in college. Now if only had time (and discipline?) to actually watch some of these lectures, that would be wonderful! Academic Earth – Thousands of video lectures from the world’s top scholars 
Check out this post Incommunicado, probably: > "I’m working at home today, waiting for the Fios guy. Which means that I’m probably going to drop off the face of the earth for much of today." (from: from Paul Krugman) 🙂
Clay Shirkey writes an article called “Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable”. I thought this was an excellent discussion about a topic I’ve written, with much less insight, in th...
Read more →Take a book that I was interested in, “The Lords of Finance”, by Liaquat Ahamed. This is a brand new book, very timely that I heard mentioned on TV. Prices: - **Sample...
Read more →The other day, [Amazon released a free application on the iPhone (and iPod Touch.) On the surface, just another ebook application.](http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_83811991_2?ie=UTF8&docId=1000301301&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=right-1&pf_rd_r=1YP113BP56SN3V5NAENM&pf_rd_t=101&p...
Read more →This article is somewhat mathematical but I am sure it still hugely simplifies the logic that led us astray. If you are a pop-math-head like me you will find it interesting: > “For five years, Li’s formula, known as a [Gaussian copula functi...
Read more →Check out this post The Stimulus Gets Its Own Logo: > "From now on, all projects associated with the simulus will be adorned with the following logo. Whatcha think? Whatever you think about Obama, you can’t argue that his team has some good graphic design skills. 
There are people in our government who are strongly pushing for more openness and who are very focused on delivering better, more modern, service to citizens. They operate under some severe constraints, in some cases from rules and regulations that seem to have become obsolete. Yet you c...
Read more →Read more →“Each morning when he arrives at the Oval Office, President Obama asks his staff to deliver him a package containing 10 letters. It is a mere sampling of the 40,000 or so that Americans send to the White House every day — a barrage of advice from students and teachers, small-business owners and th...
Everything’s a camp today, Foo Camp, Bar Camp and now Transparency Camp. I am attending this gathering in Washington D.C. to get closer to what’s going on in the open government movement. This is a pretty succinct summary of what it’s about: > “Convening...
Read more →Bill Ives has been running “twitter week” this week on his blog Portals and KM. Here something from his concluding post: [Concluding Twitter Week: Predictions on How Twitter Will Change Blogs in 2009](http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/WGHl...
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