In a recent blog posting, Ewan McIntosh makes a note of Andrew Keen and, to quote Ewan, “Dave Weinberger’s superb riposte of it.” The title and subtitle of Keen’s book does well to summarize his ideas: The Cult of the Amateur: How blogs, MySpace, YouTube, and the rest of today’s user-generated media are destroying our […]
Continue reading →The Time magazine cover article this week by Richard Stengel proposes a national service initiative using volunteers to serve in much needed national support in such areas as environmental projects, education, health care, etc. I think it’s a great idea. Mr Stengel throws out a 10 point plan, three of are particularly important in the […]
Continue reading →Scientific American reports online a Wifi hardware startup that aims to bring global universal access: There are two ways to look at the explosive growth of the Internet: One is to celebrate the fact that in the 15 years since it became commercially available, what began as an obscure military technology morphed into a global […]
Continue reading →A press release from the NSF reports Asia’s investment in the 1990’s are paying higher dividends today, nearly outperforming the U.S. and Europe. In particular, China reports a 20% annual growth rate from 1995 to 2003. This was helped with investment from U.S. multinational corporations of $11.9 billion in 1994 up to $21.2 billion in […]
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