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Weekend Stuff: The racist, sexist, ageist, elitist campaign

I have been dismayed ...to see Carly, former CEO of the world's largest technology vendor, used by the McCain campaign to attack the press as "sexist" for asking questions about Palin. I mean what could be more sexist than McCain...
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Top 10 things I could do in the cloud if I were not a Google employee

At the Office 2.0 conference Matthew Glotzbach of Google presented on 10 things he can now do in the cloud he could not last year. Not surprisingly every one of them involves a Google product. A couple of the EIs...
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Of SaaS and Republicans

I arrived in San Francisco for the Office 2.0 conference where everything SaaS pervades the agenda and the conference ambience - very little paper showing agendas, slides, messages - everything in the cloud. In the backdrop, the Republicans were busy...
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More New Renaissance

On the innovation blog Tracking Hurricane Gustav and his friends The "hyperconnected" hotel guest Obama on major science issues How would you like a 700 inch HD TV? Coke's New Designs
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Alaska Republicans 'Stunned' by Palin's Nomination

The Anchorage Daily News is running a story titled Choice stuns state politicians. The Republican Senate President says Sarah Palin is "not prepared to be governor", much less Vice President: [Republican] State Senate President Lyda Green said she thought it...
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Mythbusters Adam on Education Issues

Busy Mythbusters week, in addition to the following, Savage also backpedaled on the whole “credit card company lawyers threatened us about doing anything on RFID security” story.

Irrespective of the RFID story, his comments on science education are very good.

When Jamie Hyneman and I speak at teacher conventions, we always draw a grateful crowd. [...]

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Sourcing Innovation Illuminations -- B2B 3.0

Considering that the Sourcing Innovation Blog has lacked a bit of its trademark tech invective of late, I knew something was up. Indeed, The Doctor, also known as Michael Lamoureux, has been working on a new whitepaper series outlining the tenants of...
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It's the Publicly Available Data, Stupid ....

If you asked me through a historical lens 'what are the best things about living in the current time', it would be relatively easy to answer. Certainly freedom of expression, movement and trade -- not to mention modern medicine -- would top the list....
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Toyota and India -- Proof That Specialization Still (Often) Trumps Local Sourcing

When we look back on the past few years of craziness in the currency markets, booming transportation (and oil) prices and a general trend toward government sponsored protectionism (even China and India have been especially guilty of protecting their ...
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Links for 2008-09-04 [del.icio.us]

  • Twitter » tparish
    "Spanning Sync saves the day. Thanks Charlie Wood! The new 2.0 version works great. I can sync my Apple iCal with Google Calendar with iPhone."

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Lowering the Drinking Age

UPDATE: I forgot to post this link to a post on PETA that I really liked, sent by a frequent commenter who shares my head shaking disbelief at PETA’s tactics.

At first my reflexive response was against the idea of lowering the drinking age to 18 but after some thought I think I can support this [...]

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SaaS is an Ancient Model

Lots of talk today about how the SaaS market will ‘collapse’ in two years.  I don’t get it: if it survived 40 years, why would it collapse now?  Yes, that’s right, SaaS has been a successful model for 4 decades now. Need proof?   Check out Technorati linking to my post on the NetSuite IPO 11119 [...]

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