You have to hate it when CNN brings in people who are so obviously not qualified to talk about a subject and just leave the viewer dazed and confused as a result. This interview about net neutrality is my case in point. Net neutrality is only partially about bandwidth prioritization. So let’s try to see [...]
Something isn’t quite right in paradise. Linden Lab has been making a whole series of cuts to staff and programs over the past 6-8 months that are to a large measure a reduction of service and costs associated with the Second Life platform. All the while they are claiming “we are on sound financial footing”. [...]
I’m confused and maybe its simply because at a very core level I like to think I’m still a child at heart – but why can people not live peacefully with each other? I realize that the question is very childlike and that the answer is buried in complexities of the billions on billions of [...]
Compassion is one of the true hallmarks of being human. Empathy with the human condition is one step towards gaining a competitive advantage for social cultures. Empathy leads to a desire to want to understand the underlying causes of grief and anguish and in so doing we learn how to avoid, where possible, such circumstances [...]
You would think that a smart executive would know how to call a spade a spade and establish the right message in order to protect their brand from potential disintegration. Take for example the four ring circus between BP Oil, Transocean, Halliburton, and now the US Minerals Management Service. While the folks in Washington are [...]
So the History Channel has been running these Nostradamus Effect shows of late. The most recent one being on the prophesies of Sir Isaac Newton and his prediction of the date of Armageddon in 2060. For the sake of argument I want to explore this idea a little bit as there are some rather interesting [...]