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Category Archives: Blog
Economic Shock Therapy
Last Spring I read the Shock Doctrine and for a few months I was an evangelist for it’s ideas to everyone I talked to. But somehow the Shock Doctrine’s central thesis wasn’t the most present thing in my mind during this week’s financial meltdown. I guess I was so distracted by the Fed Chairman Ben [...]
Minitek Music and Innovation Festival
When I heard the word-of-mouth that there would be something called The Minitek Music and Innovation Festival happening in NYC over the weekend I was intrigued. Music and innovation – sounds right up my alley. Evidently a group of individuals that usually throw parties in NYC were attempting to go one step further with an [...]
Obama Vs. McCain Tax Cuts
So I was talking with a tax attorney the other day and he was trying to convince me that Obama would tax the middle and upper-middle class more than McCain to redistribute the wealth down to the poor. This, he argued, would be putting an undue pressure on the “middle-class” therefore McCain was their real [...]
Steven Johnson’s New Book
It’s a another book in the vein of The Ghost Map — an idea book wrapped around an historical narrative, and like Ghost Map, it has an organizing theme of how innovative ideas emerge and spread in a society, while integrating many different threads along the way: 18th-century London coffeehouse culture; the Adams-Jefferson letters; the [...]
Great Mad Men Illustrations
Great Mad Men illustrations from Flickr user Dyna Moe.
Amazon Launches Video Streaming Service
There are a few components that will prime the pumps in the technology/media/lifestyle sectors and allow for enormous corporate growth in the next 18-24 months; and Amazon realizes this. At first-glance it would appear that Amazon just wants to join the media party and continue to offer feature-set parity with iTunes, and maybe that’s all [...]
World Spending On Electronics
Cool Visualization Shows World’s Spending On Electronics By Country (We Spend A Lot)