December 2008
39 posts
“At first, it appeared the fundraising drive that began on Nov. 3 would fall...”
– globeandmail.com: Wikipedia pulls in flood of cash from users
NYT: Internet Use Grows at Meetings →
Top Technology Breakthroughs of 2008 →
“Google’s response to Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo may represent one of the most...”
– Google’s Machiavellianism - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
“For a decade, consumers mostly ignored electronic book devices, which were often...”
– More Readers Are Picking Up Electronic Books - NYTimes.com
“But the costs of America’s Ponzi era surely went beyond the direct waste of...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - The Madoff Economy - NYTimes.com
“The move ends a controversial program that saw the Recording Industry...”
– Music Industry Drops Effort to Sue Song Swappers - NYTimes.com
“Economics do not necessarily dictate such changes; in fact, they may be...”
– (Drucker, pg 95)
Oxford Saïd Business School: Hives of industry
A team of scientists from the University of Oxford and Northwestern University have found striking similarities between the collaborative networks formed by plants and the insects that pollinate them, and manufacturers and the firms to which they contract out work. The researchers developed a computer simulation model which reproduced the overall structure of ten large pollination networks as well...
Nerd World - TIME.com » Blog Archive Ad Agency... →
Ingram 2.0 - How should companies use Twitter? →
reportonbusiness.com: Toward a Next Generation... →
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Drucker: Classical Economics, Innovation and...
This is a particularly good page from Drucker (pg 24):
“Every practice rests on theory, even if the practitioners themselves are unaware of it. Entrepreneurship rests on a theory of economy and society. The theory sees change as normal and indeed as healthy. And it sees the major task in society - and especially in the economy - as doing something different rather than doing better what is...
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“Innovation, as these examples show, does not have to be technical, does not...”
– (Drucker pg 28)
NYT: What the Search Engines Have Found Out About... →
“Indeed, high tech is the one sector that is not part of this new...”
– Quote: Drucker on Innovation and Entrepreneurship
“Reuters has pulled its embedded reporter out of Second Life, it confirmed today.”
– Reuters yanks reporter from Sadville • The Register
“You know the world has changed when Jim O’Neill, the chief global...”
– BBC NEWS | The Reporters | Robert Peston
“THE golden age of piracy has returned. Just as Henry Every and William Kidd once...”
– Op-Ed Contributor - Piracy Is Terrorism - NYTimes.com
“So, what if social media and advertising just don’t mix? There’s mounting...”
– Is Social Advertising an Oxymoron? | Epicenter from Wired.com
“U.S. FCC to mull free Internet plan
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission...”
– U.S. FCC to mull free Internet plan
“Radio Free Asia said cafes were being required to install Red Flag Linux even if...”
– globeandmail.com: China Internet cafes switching to Chinese OS
“In a fascinating experiment — on himself — Dr. Alan Greene, a pediatrician and...”
– Well - Eating Only Organic Food for Three Years
“True believers of electric cars and the like — especially those that swamp the...”
– globeandmail.com: globeauto.com One giant question mark
November 2008
56 posts
NYT: Facebook Aims to Extend Its Reach Across the... →