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Who Are These Guys?
Since I began the year with a post declaring my bailing on Firefox, I took some interest in yesterday’s post by Steve J. Vaughan-Nichols to his ZDNet Networking blog. It was Vaughan-Nichols who first put the bug in my ear with his data points on...
The Gilded Cage of Slavery
One of my favorite themes has been the extent to which the world the Internet has made has become a world that is steadily reducing workers to a new generation of slaves. The general concept is not a new one. Last April I had quoted Karl Marx on the...
Objectivism on the Side of the Angels
After reading Hugo Slim’s review for the London Telegraph of Steven Pinker’s new book The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence in History and Its Causes, I am not sure I really want to slog through all 802 pages of the book itself....
Is Customer Relevance a Secret?
The good news about Rafe Needleman’s column today for the Rafe’s Radar department of CNET News is that it presents a brief and cogent account of why every new technology business needs to remember that the customer is always more important than...
Confusing the Reader
Normally, my rants over sloppy news coverage are directed at Yahoo! However, every now and then a blooper pops up from the other side of the pond; and fairness dictates that I recognize that more reputable sources blunder, too. It was not that long...
India Introduces Tough New Rules Governing Tobacco in Movies And Television Programs
India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has notified the rules for Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) [second amendment rules] 2011. These...
What Matters to Today’s College Students
Stephen Douglas seems to have come up with a relatively thorough on-the-spot account on The Big Lead of last night’s reaction at State College, Pennsylvania, to the dismissal of Penn State football coach Joe Paterno. The climax seemed to come with...
ITV Announces the Commission of Eight New Episodes of Downton Abbey
ITV announces the commission of eight new episodes of the immensely successful Downton Abbey written and created by Julian Fellowes.
