August 13, 2010
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Sometimes a 2.0 release is viewed as a fix for shortcomings in the initial release of just about any product….except this update from Tom Friedman: Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew … Continue reading
July 22, 2010
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A financial crisis is a terrible thing to waste. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson faced the largest crisis in our country’s modern history with a great opportunity. His first hand account of the near collapse of our financial economy is detailed … Continue reading
July 9, 2010
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Google may launch more than one “fiber city” in America. This cyberinfrastructure project could will be a tipping point for a few lucky cities. var so = new SWFObject(‘http://www.telecomtv.com/embed/player.swf’,'mpl’,’600′,’325′,’5′); so.addParam(‘allowscriptaccess’,'always’); so.addParam(‘allowfullscreen’,'true’); so.addParam(‘wmode’,'transparent’); so.addParam(‘flashvars’,'file=Week_5_Google&volume=100&autostart=false&streamer=rtmpt://telecomtv.fcod.llnwd.net/a1411/o16&type=video&image=http://video.telecomtv.com/web2/ugc/thumb/Week_5_Google_large.jpg’); so.write(‘embedplayer’); Tags: experimental network, Google, Network, internet … Continue reading
July 3, 2010
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Small schools (K12 and Colleges with less than 1,000 students) are accustomed like all of us to accessing email around the clock. We know email is habit forming at best and compulsive at worst. The new economy proves funding 24/7 … Continue reading
March 16, 2010
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Regrettably the Vancouver Olympics interrupted my reading pattern and its been a slow recovery. I blogged about this book as soon as I learned it was in production back in August. Yikes! I have been following Larry Lessig‘s work on … Continue reading
August 19, 2009
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I finished Alan Greenspan‘s book The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World and learned it was more than I expected from the former Chairman of The Federal Reserve. And with the recession still in high gear it was … Continue reading
July 18, 2009
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Just finished reading Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson. I very much enjoyed his previous book The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More. (review here) The first time I read about this idea … Continue reading
October 26, 2008
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India is the second fastest growing economy in the world, second only to their Asian neighbor China. Both have embraced globalization yet are racing to secure resources as their economies, populations, markets and environments grow out of control. India has … Continue reading
May 20, 2008
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Innovation Nation: How America Is Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do to Get It Back from John Kao is a timely read. To say I enjoyed his lessons how America is losing it’s innovation … Continue reading