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27 Sep 09

2009: Predictions Across the Web

  • The end of the year is typically a time for prediction posts. We have our own thoughts on what we expect the future to bring (which we will publish this week), but in this post we'll take a look at what some of our friends are discussing about the Web.
06 Sep 09

Gov 2.0: It’s All About The Platform

  • the Air Force originally launched GPS satellites for its own purposes, but in a crucial policy decision, agreed to release a less accurate signal for commercial use. The Air Force moved from providing an application to providing a platform, with the result being a wave of innovation in the private sector.
02 Sep 09

Multitasking -- Lee Rainie on Kojo Nnamdi's talk show | Pew Internet & American Life Project

  • The research showed that heavy multitaskers are worse than light multitaskers at filtering information, storing and organizing information, and switching back and forth among several activities.
03 Aug 09

Ignatia Webs: New book on Social Media by Tamar Weinberg, focusing on marketing but promising

  • Social Media is a much hyped term the last years. But what if you did not launch yourself in it? Or what if you feel uncomfortable and want to know more before diving in? In that case a nice, cool, descriptive book has been published from the O'Reilly series. At least it looks cool if you take a look at some of the content that is in it as picked out by the author Tamar Weinberg.
23 Jun 09

Technology Review: A Pound of Cure

  • administration accounts for 31 percent of expenses in the U.S. health-care industry, or more than $500 billion per year. (To put that in perspective, Google has spent well under 10 percent of that on all its R&D.)
11 Jun 09

As Iran Gets Ready to Vote, Economy Dominates - NYTimes.com

  • In the West, Iran’s coming presidential election is viewed largely through the lens of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s crackdown on social freedoms and his combative approach to Israel, the United States, and Iran’s nuclear program.
26 May 09

Learning, and Profiting, from Online Friendships - BusinessWeek

  • According to studies, the contacts outside of our close friendships are more likely to lead us to new opportunities. Their networks have less overlap and extend into different areas.
  • According to studies, the contacts outside of our close friendships are more likely to lead us to new opportunities. Their networks have less overlap and extend into different areas.
01 May 09

Cyberwar - Iranians and Others Outwit Net Censors - Series - NYTimes.com

  • A study published in February by Rebecca MacKinnon, who teaches journalism at the University of Hong Kong, determined that much blog censorship is performed not by the government but by private Internet service providers, including companies like Yahoo China, Microsoft and MySpace.
  • When the Falun Gong tried to support its service with advertising several years ago, American companies backed out under pressure from the Chinese government, members said.
19 Apr 09

Better batteries are on their way | Batteries now included | The Economist

  • Broadly speaking, there are two ways of storing electrical energy in a chemical system. One is a standard battery, in which the whole material of the electrodes acts as a storage medium. That allows lots of energy to be squirrelled away, but makes it relatively hard to get at—and so it can be released or put back in only slowly. The other way is called a supercapacitor. This stores energy only at the surface of the electrode. It is quick to charge and discharge, but cannot hold much energy. The great prize in the battery world has thus been a material that can both store a lot and discharge rapidly, and it is this that Dr Ceder and Mr Kang think they have come up with.
15 Apr 09

Tackling pirates off Somalia | Perils of the sea | The Economist

  • The International Maritime Bureau, a private-sector outfit, counted 111 pirate attacks off Somalia in 2008 (nearly triple the previous year’s tally), including the capture of 42 vessels—among them the Sirius Star, a Saudi supertanker, and the Faina, a Ukrainian ship carrying tanks. So far this year pirates have been more assiduous but less successful, mounting 68 attacks and nabbing only 18 ships.

A new border tsar for America, but when will immigration reform get under way? | Seeking order on the border | The Economist

  • In 2004 Latinos supported John Kerry's bid for the presidency by 56%, compared with 40% for George Bush. In November they sided with Mr Obama 67% to 31%, helping him to win important states such as Florida, New Mexico and Colorado. In the past, says Frank Sharry of America’s Voice, a reform group, “everyone from Rahm Emanuel to Republican operatives thought that illegal immigration was one of those issues that helped Republicans.” But a study by America’s Voice found that in 20 of 22 competitive congressional races, candidates favouring broad reform defeated hardliners. It appears that general voters had lost interest in the issue, although Latinos were motivated to vote for the Democrats.
  • Business groups have long bemoaned the limits on skilled immigrants in particular, who have founded 52% of Silicon Valley start-ups, according to the Kauffman Foundation.
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