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Got Twitter? What's Your Influence Score
Companies are scouring social networks, looking for the new “influencers.”This is an attempt by the sales departments to drive fashion.They may get a pop out of it but it will kill the system that gave it reason for being.Consider the Edsel or more recently the Russian emigres who tried painting to focus group. -
Atop TV Sets, a Power Drain That Runs Nonstop
The boxes that usher cable signals and digital recording capacity into televisions have become the single-largest electricity drain in many American homes.This story is about a slipped decimal point.If you are going to write about arithmetic you must do and check the calculations.It is also about recovering sunk costs, bad design and extractive business practice. All of that is locked up behind copyright, patents and trade secrecy.As the limeric has it, "Where they argued all night as to who had the right to what and with which and to whom." -
Is Shyness an Evolutionary Tactic?
The tendency to see shyness as an illness does society a disservice, because being shy has benefits.There's gold in them thar ills.Yes I am, so are you. That makes it a problem but not insurmountable.You must tell me when it is time to start. As much warning of that as you can manage will be very welcome. I LOVE YOU. -
Insiders Sound an Alarm Amid a Natural Gas Rush
As investment floods into shale wells, concerns about their productivity are spurring talk of a bubble.There is a real fight here between the profit now gang and the tomorrow is another day gang. Gas is fossil carbon and I am opposed to it on those grounds. -
Why Is He Bi? (Sigh)
The One likes to have it two ways at once.President Obama is in an impossible situation. The talking heads hope yelling will help. -
U.S. Using ‘Mystery Shoppers’ to Check on Access to Doctors
The Obama administration is deploying a team to pose as patients, call doctors’ offices and see how difficult it is to get care.The survey is looking for information about the practice of medicine.It examines the level of overload and the sufficiency of the payment schedule. These are very proper questions as the federal government is taking on the regulation of these qualities. The answers the article cites are very negative. This is not in agreement with the present position of the A.M.A. Are we seeing the presence of the executive editor in the news pages? -
The Same-Sex Marriage Battle Blurs Political and Ideological Lines.
Those who seem to be unlikely supporters of same-sex marriage have had their opinions influenced by knowing someone who is gay.http://www.ianwelsh.net/basics-anyone-who-will-sell-you-out-is-not-on-your-side/
Basics: anyone who will sell you out is not on “your side”
2011 June 26http://www.ianwelsh.net/one-more-note-on-the-new-york-gay-marriage-cuomo-and-the-gay-rights-movement/Where is truth in all of this? -
Bridge Comes to San Francisco With a Made-in-China Label
There are a great many decorations on this story of outsourcing and exploited labour.
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My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant
A reporter talks about his illegal American dream.This act of passive resistance is very intentional.If the I.N.S. is to survive this journalist should be on a plane to Manilla.He is not and the court papers are not yet filed.I await further news. -
At Gay Pride Parade, Cuomo Is Center of Attention
Much of the cheering was aimed at Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who led the fight for legalization of gay marriage.A battle but not the war.http://www.ianwelsh.net/the-shiny/
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Why Science Struggles to Correct Its Mistakes
The field fixes its errors with more difficultly than it would have you believe.There are other very strong interests than truth. We hope that in time those interests will change. That small t truth is very stable and becomes more stable as other interests are flaked away. If we don't understand it we cannot predict it or design for it and with it. -
Making a Living With Multiple Part-Time Jobs
Out of necessity or choice, many people are weaving together a smattering of part-time positions to pay the bills.Grad school.I have never had the luxury of a job description. -
Companies Erect In-House Social Networks
As social networks increasingly channel personal communications, companies are creating their own — and keeping them strictly business.I can see the use. If your intranet added blogging it would get very close to an equivalent. It might be an even better fit. -
It Has to Start With Them
Three questions come to mind when thinking about Afghanistan.Even when Thomas Friedman gets something right he has the need to poison the result. The Cold War I remember did not end as he tells the tale. Reagan was Balled out by the Right Wing Pundits for his withdrawal from Lebanon. -
College Degrees Are Valuable Even for Careers That Don’t Require Them
Skeptics say college is overrated, but those with degrees make more even when their jobs don’t require higher education.The unemployed are desperate. Degreed or not, they will take any work that pays. Employers will take a literate and numerate person over one who's literacy and numeracy are in doubt. Skill costs no more in pay and much less in errors. If the pay is a living wage there is no fear of early departure. -
Opinion
The world is made of chemicals.
The main difference between the petroleum derived and the recently living is the carbon 14 content. The recently living are more radioactive. The industries that make the chemicals are varied. The good ones are quite good, the bad ones just awful. Regulation is required to keep the externalized costs on the books and see that they are paid.
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New Online Services Offer Hope to Music Fans
New online services promise to bring order to the digital revolution, but dematerializing recorded music has its consequences for listeners, artists and the music industry.If the the charges are allowed to get significant we will have "The Pirate Bay" back in our awareness. I don't know where to find the group at the moment but they are active. -
The Road to Gay Marriage in New York
To get same-sex marriage passed in New York, a strategic governor, Wall Street donors and gay-rights advocates showed more might than an ineffective opposition.It is just not significant to finance and is a very conservative proposition. -
Is This Our Future?
Maybe. It is not a good future but it is better than what we have now. Owning an electric and renting an internal combustion car at need seems a better way to go.
The plane and the train do distance better than any car. The bus is questionable. I would rather see trolleys.
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Afghan Girl Tricked Into Carrying Bomb, Officials Say
The police chief of Uruzguan Province said he believed that the 8-year-old girl was completely unaware that the bag that she had been given by Taliban insurgents held a bomb.
I wish I believed that Afghanistan was a liberal western democracy.The form is called Oriental despotism for good reason.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_despotismhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli
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