Author: Don Kasprzak

Globalization – Getting faster

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date June 20, 2006
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We live in a globally connected world. China and Russia are now connected to America via the internet and are just as close as Mexico…Actually they are just three seconds away on the web. How America completes is still silent in global world economy. The impact to our educational future will be critical to learn, edit and execute. What does the future hold?

Figure out something that you really like. Because you’ll be competing against students in Russia, China, India, and the Czech Republic.
–Craig Barrett, Intel Chairman

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Education Reading Watergate

Latest read: Nixon Triumph of a Politician, 1962-72

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date June 9, 2006

Just finished noted historian Stephen E. Ambrose second volume on Nixon: Nixon: The Triumph of a Politician, 1962-1972 and it’s quite a task.

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Ambrose as at his best walking the reader from Nixon’s failed run in the California gubernatorial campaign where he famously stated to the press “Your not going to have Nixon to kick around anymore” to his landslide re-election in 1972 with Watergate just beginning to explode.

The details of Nixon’s inherited war in Vietnam are the most revealing. Vietnam cast such a long shadow on Nixon’s Presidency. However all things begin equal he could not escape the shadow of Johnson’s role escalating the war in Vietnam. Nixon himself destroyed the “Imperial Presidency” he so hungered to achieve.

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Radio2.0 – part 2

The update of my radio2.0 post:

A study by Arbitron/Edison Media Research finds that the weekly Internet radio audience has increased 50% over the last year. Twelve percent of Americans age 12+ have listened to Internet radio in the past week, a 50% increase over the 2005 estimate of 8%.

Nearly one in five 18- to 34-year-olds listened to Internet radio in the last week. Nineteen percent of Americans age 18-34 listen to Internet radio during an average week. Internet radio delivers 16% of persons in the prime 18-49 radio buying demo.

However, just 19% of those online have ever listened online to their most listened to AM/FM radio station. While this number is a record high, up from 15% the previous year, it shows the continued lack of usage of Internet streaming as a way to increase a station’s reach.

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