Corporate America’s Silent Partnet: India - The shift of skilled work to India is becoming one of Corporate America’s worst-kept secrets. Almost daily, India’s newspapers carry items on new plans by U.S. software, finance, or pharmaceutical companies to open or expand call centers and research labs. Officials from Bombay to Bangalore point to splashy new [...]
Dilbert’s Ultimate Cubicle - “Over the years, DILBERT fans have e-mailed me on all sorts of topics. And after a while, I began to realize that a common theme among the majority of them was the fact that most people are highly frustrated with their cubicles. So I started to think, ‘What would DILBERT [...]
Karzai weathers power struggle, but at a price - Hamid Karzai is on a roll. A majority of the 502 delegates to Afghanistan’s constitutional convention now favors the strong presidential system that Mr. Karzai is pushing. The emerging consensus is a big win for Karzai and for the United States, which installed the ethnic Pashtun [...]
Movable Type 3.0 - We realize that official news has been scarce over the last 6-9 months. During this time, our company has grown from two people to seven, and we have launched TypePad . Now that we have hired more engineering resources (and we are still looking for more ), we are able to [...]
A certain breed of parent is happily buying postmodern rugs, art deco lamps and vintage sports posters for their children. But who are these items really for? [Salon]
This is really more a test of the blog editor in NetNewsWire than anything else.
Carb-counting bagels - I had my lunch today on a “carb-counting” bagel. This is new, or at least new to me, in my brand, in my store. We went shopping last weekend and there they were, next to the “toaster-style” bagels (which I normally eat) and the “New York-style” bagels (which I normally [...]
Bollywood in Internet download deal - BANGALORE (Reuters) - India’s film makers are offering Internet movie downloads on web site Kazaa in a move that could lower costs and boost revenues in Bollywood, the world’s most prolific film production centre. [Reuters UK]
As I “previously blogged”:89 Bollywood seems to be embracing the prospects of digital [...]
If He’s So Smart…Steve Jobs, Apple, and the Limits of Innovation - The battle over digital music is just another verse in Apple’s sad song: This astonishingly imaginative company keeps getting muscled out of markets it creates. So what does Apple have to tell us about innovation? [Fast Company]
The article’s point is keen: Apple prides [...]
Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.
Poverty is ‘real pollution’ - Dr Lomborg has angered the green lobby by daring to challenge certain “truths” about environmental decline. He has accused the greens of exaggerating problems and of ignoring the facts. [BBC News]
I especially like Bjorn’s attempts to put environmentalism in perspective as a movement that needs to USE tools like economics [...]
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