Group Think, Duct Tape and Slam Dunks
Skype founders to launch broadband TV service: Skype founders to launch broadband TV service The founders of Skype, the free internet phone service, have just announced their plan to launch a broadband television service early next year. Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, the entrepreneurs who were also behind the Kazaa file-sharing service, are said to […]
MoreWorld-O-Crap: Elder care obligations have kept me on the run this week, but I see that Jonah Goldberg left his mark on the Los Angeles Times Opinion page yesterday. So did my parakeet, but Jonah clearly outperformed her by managing to cover twice as many column inches while still working with the same basic materials. […]
MoreThe Volokh Conspiracy – Can You Tell a Sunni from a Shiite?:: Anderson (mail) (www): but do policy makers and administrators really need to know the origin of the split in Islam? Love the spin here. That’s not what Stein asked. A functioning knowledge of how the Sunni/Shiite split works in today’s politics was enough […]
MoreThe strange dust-up over ‘Beat the Press’ – News – The Phoenix: Personally, if blogging didn’t come with any media attention of any sort, I’d be happier. I deliberately followed my heart in my English BA and avoided the Journalism concentration like the plague. I liked poetry. That sort of writing you do in a […]
MoreFiredoglake 1976-1978: General Services Officer, Niamey, Niger 1978-1979: Administrative Office, Lomé, Togo 1979-1981: Administrative Officer, U.S. State Department, Washington, D.C. 1981-1982: Administrative Officer, Pretoria, South Africa 1982-1985: Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM), Bujumbura, Burundi 1985-1986: Congressional Fellow, offices of Senator Al Gore and Representative Tom Foley 1986-1988: DCM, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo 1988-1991: DCM, […]
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