The Times of London Sports Editors Simon Barnes and Neil Harman got Sunday’s Wimbledon story right. Andy Roddick was not just the ragged warrior but also the hero of the match – unfortunately, the tragic hero. For no country is quite like the US in Sports. To finish second is equivalent to finishing thirtieth or […]
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Nuclear Power has a strong lure to policymakers. It is “clean”, does not dent oil reserves, and its operating costs can be close to cost competitive as long as uranium prices don’t spike. But there are some real downside problems; and the Canadian and Ontario Governments are learning this lesson in spades. The Canadian government
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Boomsday by Christopher Buckley is a purported satire on Washington DC and American elites – politicians, budding bureaucrats, lobbyists, PR spin doctors, Ivy league faculty, press-flak flunkees, business tycoons and the outlandish things they will say and do to get ahead – where “ahead” clusters somewhere between the power to humiliate without peer and wealth
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President Obama is being touted for a)eliciting opinions from all players in the policy room and b)allowing (if not encouraging) contrarian opinions in policy debates. This is what the Obama Contrarian series of postings will be about. This first posting is about the kid glove treatment the Financial Community appears to be getting from the
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The old adage “you get what you pay for” is getting a real workout as two philosophical viewpoints on the Internet vie for dominance in the Web marketplace. First, there is the journalistic community which is arguing it cannot rely on the current payment model which now uses primarily advertising and a few special services
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Frank Rich at the NewYork Times has written a caustic yet timely piece on why the Press, many popular newspapers and magazines, find themselves on code-blue death watch. And these are not small fry – Boston Globe, LATimes, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, Infoworld just to name a scattering few. And Frank is frank – he cites
We need Wall Street greed control. Why greed control ? Time after time reporters of the financial scene are telling us that unbridled greed spurred otherwise rational bankers and other financial executives to make the stupid bets that has caused the mortgage meltdown and spread a recession throughout the world while many people in developed country’s around the world
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As a Web surfer one can think of some of the social networking sites with some trepidation – sort of a popularity contest in the Cloud. Judge your Flickr friends by the quality of their comments more than the number of their image postings. Facebook – look for Friends that investigate whats up in your
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Some people ask why has free Open Source software got such a broad foothold in so many markets? Because at the price of free its protected against “cut off the oxygen” zero pricing tactics by Microsoft, Oracle and other major software players while providing the decided competitive advantage of allowing customers to see and fix
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Barack Obama’s major impact on the change in power and the US Presidency is not that he is extremely well briefed and knowledgeable about a wide range of issues. Nor is that he can speak eloquently and with purpose on the topics and problems he is confronted with. No the outstanding qualities that are coming
