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The Lesser Evil: Nuclear or Coal? § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM on 2009-07-02
- Nuclear waste recycling, done abroad, drastically reduces volume, radioactivity, and the need for long-term disposal. Civilian nuclear plants have never produced atomic bombs.
  
  As far as mining is concerned, half our nuclear fuel comes from recycled Russian warheads. Despite vast American reserves, virtually no uranium mining has occurred here in decades.
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky on 2009-03-31
- organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem.
- That the relationship between advertisers, publishers, and journalists has been ratified by a century of cultural practice doesn’t make it any less accidental
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- - So who covers all that news if some significant fraction of the currently employed newspaper people lose their jobs?
    
    I don’t know. Nobody knows. We’re collectively living through 1500, when it’s easier to see what’s broken than what will replace it.
The Quiet Coup - The Atlantic (May 2009) on 2009-03-31
- Anything that is too big to fail is too big to exist.
- veryone has elites; the important thing is to change them from time to time.
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- - But the U.S., of course, is the world’s most powerful nation, rich beyond measure, and blessed with the exorbitant privilege of paying its foreign debts in its own currency, which it can print. As a result, it could very well stumble along for years—as Japan did during its lost decade—never summoning the courage to do what it needs to do, and never really recovering. A clean break with the past—involving the takeover and cleanup of major banks—hardly looks like a sure thing right now. Certainly no one at the IMF can force it.
  - confusion and chaos were very much in the interests of the powerful—letting them take things, legally and illegally, with impunity
FT.com / In depth - Seeds of its own destruction on 2009-03-25
- Yet if the financial system has proved dysfunctional, how far can we rely on the maximisation of shareholder value as the way to guide business? The bulk of shareholdings is, after all, controlled by financial institutions. Events of the past 18 months must confirm the folly of this idea.
- The era of financial liberalisation has ended. Yet, unlike in the 1930s, no credible alternative to the market economy exists and the habits of international co-operation are deep.
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The writing is on the paywall on 2009-02-19
- Reporters, editors, photographers, and other newspaper production workers are skilled professionals who require good and fair pay and benefits and, often, substantial travel allowances. It's a fantasy to believe that the production of all the kinds of news that people value, particularly hard news, can be shifted over to amateurs or journeymen working for peanuts or some newfangled journo-syndicalist communes.
New Math For Fundraisers | The Agitator - Fundraising, Direct Marketing and Advocacy Strategies for Nonprofits on 2009-02-09
Parched: Australia faces collapse as climate change kicks in - Australasia, World - The Independent on 2009-02-09
The Bellows » Gender Bias in Commuting on 2009-02-09
Business Intelligence on 2009-02-02
- I expect many organizations to try and get more value from software and systems they already own.
- Budgets are flat to down and less will be spent during 2009 than in 2008. I saw a recent study from an analyst organization suggesting a 50% decrease in IT spending in 2009. I find that difficult to fathom. I believe a decrease of 10 – 20% is more likely. In spite of this, BI and EPM are still top priorities and organizations will concentrate efforts upon these and other critical business challenges - while working to save money whenever possible.
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- - emerging software vendors and consultants have caught on to the trend and are focusing selling efforts on business management – with the promise of implementing business solutions faster than IT can. Of course, these vendors may eventually have to deal with IT, but will avoid it (if at all possible) until business management is “on board”.
  - BI and EPM initiatives will continue to be driven by both business and IT departments (often independently) with economic buyers and influencers varying by organization. Irrespective of who drives the initiative, I expect that there will be greater urgency and immediacy associated with it.
  - 2009 will be a good year for solution-providers offering rapid time-to-value, and a lower cost structure. Right now Software-as-a-Service is my top pick.
Locus Online Features: Cory Doctorow: Why I Copyfight on 2008-11-11
- the natural inclination of anyone who is struck by a piece of creative work is to share it