6 out of 10 CIOs "reevaluating" tech budgets [Meltdowns] (2)
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If you planned to have your startup switch gears to sell to big business instead of strapped consumers, hold that thought. Chief information officers, the tech executives who serve as gatekeepers to most tech spending at large corporations, are rapidly turning bearish. The CIO Executive Board reports that 61 percent of its members are "reevaluating" 2009 budgets. A similar percentage are pausing nonessential projects, and a quarter have put a hiring freeze on.
Frugality is the New Black, Part II (1)
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Almost two months ago I wrote a post here that frugality is the new black. I see that fellow TED-ster Juan Enriquez has an OpEd in today's Boston Globe saying something very similar -- he thinks we need to talk a lot more about "austerity" on our way to a major economic restructuring in the U.S. It is highly persuasive. Many politicians decided reelection depended on cutting taxes and offering more benefits. Increase Medicare, postpone ...
[Screens Around Town] Anthropologie, Threadless, and Gawker (5)
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Anthropologie Interesting “walkthrough” metaphor at Anthropologie. You navigate through a room where everything’s for sale. Threadless Threadless adds some personality to the typically boring shopping-cart pattern. Sad cart. Happy cart.Gawker The Gawker network of sites moves to threaded comments (threads open with a click). Closed. Open.
Tom Brokaw: Boring For NBC, Boring For America [Journalismism] (1)
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So Tom Brokaw is still chugging over at Meet the Press. The NBC Sunday morning institution has been hosted by the former nightly news anchor since the untimely and unexpected death of Tim Russert earlier this year. The network is probably going to permanently hand off the show to smart analyst Chuck Todd and serviceable anchor David Gregory, but Brokaw will remain at NBC News, by necessity, for a long time. Because he is now ...
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Horst Gutmann: Django 1.0 now with its own branch (1)
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Right after 1.0 got released, some people started to wonder how to easily stay up to date on bugfixes for this major release. Back then I think it was James Bennett who told me to stay tuned for something on this front. Today, Jacob Kaplan-Moss announced that Django 1.0 finally has its own maintenance branch in the repository. This means mostly one thing for you according the release process documentation: If you want to stay ...
Did Pelosi Screw Up or Is She Crazy Like a Fox? (1)
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Legislatures don't run like electing a student body president. Leadership counts votes and generally knows what's going to happen before the bill comes up for a vote. So, what happened with the failure of the Bail Out Bill is a really a failure of House leadership. I see three possible scenarios: Pelosi didn't know if she had the votes and gambled that the pressure of a vote would push people into a "yes" decision. Pelosi ...
O2B candidate Bob Lord opposes bailout (1)
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From a campaign press release: "The Bush administration's proposal was flawed from the very beginning," Lord said. "We simply cannot afford to put that much taxpayer money into the hands of a single person. There's not enough oversight, not enough accountability for those who put our economy at risk, and not enough protections for homeowners and taxpayers," said Lord. Lord, a business attorney who supports permanent middle class tax cuts, keeping the capital gains and ...
Politics of crisis (1)
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The ghost of Herbert Hoover comes to the rescue Just worth pointing out: Henry Paulson's decision to let Lehman fail, on Sept. 14, may have delivered the White House to Obama. No Tags
Congress did the right thing today (3)
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I'm on jury duty today, hence relegated to using my iPhone to keep up with the news out of DC. Great for keeping tabs, terrible for participating in the discussion. So with the few minutes I have in our lunch break, let me lay out some quick thoughts: I'm glad this thing failed. The right and left may have had different reasons for voting this bill down, but fact is, the "consensus center" rushed into ...
Bond Expert: Monday Wrap (1)
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John Jansen submits: Prices of Treasury coupon securities surged dramatically today in a truly historic day of trading. It was a day in which the populist impulse triumphed and the latent suspicion of Wall Street grounded in the middle class heartland rose up to defeat a bill crafted and formed by the ruling elite. (I do not necessarily subscribe to the theory but I think it is what domed the legislation. As I have written ...
Motorola getting friendly with Android (20)
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Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds When a major player like Google comes up with a new mobile operating system that's better than the competition and is totally free, you would certainly expect handset manufacturers to be interested. But there's interested, and then there's interested. After lingering for nearly a year in the former category Motorola is now firmly moving to the latter, hiring and headhunting in an effort to build up a 350-person group entirely focused ...
Aerosteon Riocoloradensis: Meat-Eating Dinosaur Had Bird-Like Breathing (1)
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The remains of a 30-foot-long predatory dinosaur discovered along the banks of Argentina's Rio Colorado is helping to unravel how birds evolved their unusual breathing system. Birds have a breathing system that is unique among land animals. Instead of lungs that expand, birds have a system of bellows, or air sacs, which help pump air through the lungs. This novel feature is the reason birds can fly higher and faster than bats, which, like all ...
A Simple Explanation of What Went Wrong (2)
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I read this interesting Brookings paper yesterday, titled "A Brief Guide To Fixing Finance." The most intriguing part of the paper was this simple explanation of exactly how things managed to get so bollocked up in the first place. The authors note the “domino-like” character to the financial crisis:1. The bubble in home prices, fueled by the ready availability of credit, resulted in an underestimate of the risks of residential real estate; 2. The peaking ...
How Children Fail: angry lessons from failures to teach (12)
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Earlier this week, I blogged a review of John Holt's classic book on "unschooling," "How Children Learn, promising that my next read would be the companion volume, How Children Fail, a book that's really about how teachers fail students. "How Children Learn" was, most of all, an exuberant book, a celebration of the a-ha moments that Holt had been privileged to witness first hand and the lessons he'd learned about teaching. Even though it sometimes ...
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KeVroN said:
well, i found my sister the elementary school teachers christmas present.
McCain Camp: No Palin Medical Records Till After The Election (1)
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This Howie Kurtz piece is amazing in many ways but there is one staggering piece of real news buried in it:"Governor Palin has no history of health problems," [McCain campaign spokesman Michael] Goldfarb says. "We believe that a candidate should be able to preserve some privacy in this process, and we're confident the American people will validate that judgment come election day." So the only objective evidence we will be allowed to have about Palin's ...
Are We Duped By the Technium? (6)
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If technology is so bad for our spirits, why do we consume it? For all the benefits technology has brought us, the costs of those benefits often glare too obvious, and for many of us, seem too dear. We definitely have More – more stuff, more knowledge, and more choices – but strangely according to newspaper polls we seem to be less equipped, less wise, less happy. What progress means for some people is that ...
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jchris said:
Praxis
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Umang Saini said:
Pertinent - "The costs of technology are not easily visible, and should be more articulated, more accurate, and better considered."There's no spell.
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