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Brand Power and Smart Phones
With the flurry of recent news about Apple’s new iPhone and iOS4, I’ve been giving a lot of thought to the masterful play that Apple has made in this arena. The bulk of their success is not due to their hardware (there is more powerful hardware available) or their software (there is more capable software [...]
Continue reading...The Power of Exponential Growth
14 June 2010
Recently, a friend of mine let me know that her cousin was competing for a new promotion that Oprah is sponsoring to give away a TV show (presumably to fill the hole that she’ll create when she leaves daytime TV, but that’s besides the point). What’s important is the power of exponential growth, and the [...]
Continue reading...Elite by Choice?
17 May 2010
Seth Godin, a popular writer and blogger, had a post last week asking “Are you an elite?” Seth posits that the difference between those who are “elite” and those who are not is simply a matter of choice, the decision to be aware and engaged, to challenge a status quo of your choice. Seth argues [...]
Continue reading...CollegeMogul
18 February 2010
First of all, let me welcome any new CollegeMogul readers! I’m glad you made it here, hopefully what you find will be helpful, or at least interesting. For my regular readers who don’t know what CollegeMogul is, or why people might be visiting here from there, allow me to explain. My first post at CollegeMogul [...]
Continue reading...Trickle Down Technology
12 February 2010
There are lots of technologies that we have in our daily lives that originated from a military application. GPS, for instance, was developed by the military and then approved for use by civilians. And that’s great – I use GPS all the time, and am thankful to have it. Another example of this technology trickle-down is cellular [...]
Continue reading...Work vs. Snowpocalypse
10 February 2010
No way to know if this is authentic, of course, but Dealbreaker is circulating a note from JPMorgan Chase (a Syracuse University favorite partner!) informing employees that in the event they are unable to make it home, they have the opportunity to reserve a cot for their building, or even in their own office! How [...]
Continue reading...Spies Inside Your Computer
10 February 2010
Some interesting articles lately about the threat of cyber espionage coming through the supply chain. Essentially, this amounts to the threat that Chinese-made computer equipment could have holes (or Trojans, or backdoors, or malware, or whatever) that would either allow a malicious (assumedly Chinese) user to access the compromised computer or that would automatically exfiltrate [...]
Continue reading...Time Management
8 February 2010
Things are really busy today, so I’m copping out and stealing a post from over at Zen Habits. Interestingly, I suspect that if I were better able to manage tasks like Leo, I might have time for an honest-to-God blog entry. Anyway, here are twelve great posts from Leo’s blog: Peaceful Simplicity: How to Live [...]
Continue reading...Technological State of the Union
27 January 2010
There are many pressing issues that President Obama will address in tonight’s State of the Union address. One of the issues that has seen some press, but mostly been relegated to the back burner, is the technological policies of the new administration. You may recall the Cyberspace Policy Review, released earlier this year. This work, [...]
Continue reading...Digital Literacy – It's Important! (Seriously)
24 January 2010
This stuff matters. Really! I feel compelled to confront a very serious issue facing the newest members of Planet Earth: digital literacy. Just as we teach our children to read, teach them manners, and, as best we can, teach them the difference between right and wrong, we must teach our children the ins and outs [...]
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- The Startup Life | Story Time
- Emerging Talk – A Recap
- Coming Soon: Emerging Talk
- Balance | Distractions
- Balance | Good Enough
- Balance | Saying Yes vs. Saying No
- Balance | Time
- Cyber War | Not Here, Not Now
- Cyber War | Op-Ed Fallout
- Cyber War | Is There? Are We?
- I Hate Turnitin.com, or, "Help! The Cloud Ate My Homework!"
- Duke University Professor Scores One For Academic Freedom
- Starting Up | Making Entrepreneurs
- What's a Charrette?
- An Urgent Message from LSAC
- Zombie Tag
- Individual Market Freedom
- Mental Clutter
- What Matters Now or "Be Awesome."
- Digital Literacy - It's Important! (Seriously)
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- Whisky Made From Diabetics' Urine August 31, 2010It's doubtful that any other distillery will come up with a whisky that tastes like Gilpin Family Whisky because of its secret ingredient: urine. Researcher and designer James Gilpin uses the sugar rich urine of elderly diabetics to make his high-end single malt whisky. From the article: "The source material is acquired from elderly volunteers, inc […]
- 10 Media Takes on the Google-Verizon Net Neutrality Proposal August 11, 2010For a document with no actual authority behind it, the Verizon/Google policy proposal on openness rules for the country’s wired and wireless networks has caused quite the media storm. Today the authors themselves joined in via a Washington Post op-ed. In case anyone is wondering whether Google and Verizon hate their Internet freedom, Google CEO Eric Schmidt […]
- FBI Prioritizes Copyright Over Missing Persons August 10, 2010An anonymous reader writes "The FBI has limited resources, so it needs to prioritize what it works on. However, it's difficult to see why dealing with copyright infringement seems to get more attention than identity theft or missing persons. In the past year, the FBI has announced a special new task force to fight intellectual property infringement […]
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