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Apple the Unsuccessful Innovator

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 ...

Bjorn Lomborg: Poverty is ‘real pollution’

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 ...

RIAA Suffers Setback

RIAA vs. Verizon – The Circuit Court of Appeals Trims the RIAA’s DMCA Wings – There was a case decided on Friday by a federal appeals court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, that is so significant in its implications, at least to my reading, that I thought it worthwhile to ...

Open Letter to Connie Schultz

Ms. Schultz, My wife and I were reading the paper together when we saw a syndicated copy of your column titled “Morning after pill brings ad new day.” As someone who after some careful thought generally supports the idea of the morning after pill being made an over the counter medication (as long as the ...

Gift Cards Have Redeeming Value?

A “special advertising section” of the Star Ledger Tue 12/16 had an article titled Gift card has redeeming value written by ‘Andrea Frucci – Marketing Staff.’ Ms. Frucci tries to paint the gift card as a win-win situation for people looking to buy gifts, less work for you, and then your recipients get to go ...