Interesting report from UPI today:
White House adviser Karl Rove said in a recent conference call that Internet lobbying by young grassroots Republicans will make or break the Bush administration’s proposals to revamp the pension program, just as the technology helped get out the vote last fall during the presidential campaign.
I got a note this week that one of the companies I wrote about from the DEMO conference has launched has opened up for a free public beta. Now, this isn’t the sort of product that would interest me since my interest in music is slim and I haven’t played an instrument since guitar in…
My Internet radio show, Disruptive Dialogue, is coming back. It has been on hiatus since the last episode was recorded and released on July 4. I had put it on the shelf because of time constraints and because, although I was getting positive feedback on it, I didn’t feel it had really found the right…
Curt Monash writes: “Perhaps the coolest of the applications Information Builders cited for me is by the NYC Department of Health. This site provides a small amount of restaurant health information to tens of thousands of users per day. As a former long-time Manhattanite, I can confirm that there’s a great need for this application. IBI…
Paul Kedrosky points to the Financial Times’ list of six business books of the year. (Leave it to the Europeans to decide to end the year early.) I’ve read and enjoyed 3 of the 6 (The World is Flat, by Tom Friedman; The Search by John Battelle; and Freakonomics by Steve Levitt and Stephen Dubner). …
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For a few years now, there has been talk about phone companies successfully competing with cable companies for your TV programming dollar. Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg’s speech at CES seems indicate that company is well down the path to competition by wiring 3 million homes so far with plans to double that by the end…