An expensively-produced, celebrity-sprinkled video has been spreading virally around the web, preaching to the already converted that they need to “get out and vote”. Apparently this is Google’s handiwork. But is Hollywood/Silicon Valley really...
Through various chicanes and twists I stumbled today on a 20-minute talk from TED 2005 by architect and designer William McDonough. There is of course much discussion of sustainability at events like this, but moreso than most he’s a guy who’s walking the...
http://www.observer.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,825150,00.html US in denial as poverty rises Next door to Yale, the bastion of privilege that turns out the land’s leaders, lies a tent city of America’s poor, huddled masses. Ed Vulliamy reports on the...
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/28/opinion/28EPST.html Think You Have a Book in You? Think Again By JOSEPH EPSTEIN EVANSTON, Ill. According to a recent survey, 81 percent of Americans feel they have a book in them — and that they should write it. As the author of 14...
An interesting combination really. SBC can’t convince enough people to buy DSL over regular modems because there’s no high-speed content. Yahoo! (allegedly) makes money by providing all forms of content and could make more money by providing high-speed...
