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Submitted by Rpetty from Google Reader: In The Wall Street Journal, Charles Gasparino says that the press has largely ignored the role of government in creating the financial meltdown by bailing out banks who take dangerous risks with easy credit. (Read More)

4 days ago

Submitted by Rpetty from Google Reader: I subscribed to RepGovs’s channel on YouTube. (Read More)

4 days ago

ReadWriteWeb The real-time web is proving itself disruptive in the enterprise space. But this technology is not viable unless users may utilize live editing voice collaboration and other features on top of a real-time environment.At the Enterprise 2.0 conference over the next few days we will be watching companies that give users the ab (Read More)

Oct 28, 2009

Submitted by Rpetty from Google Reader: When I think about my connection with music, I think about three impulses: the impulse to discover, the impulse to buy, and the impulse to share. Here at Pandora we've had the discover and buy bits covered for some time, but it's been frustrating to use Pandora to share the music you're encountering with your friends. You c (Read More)

Oct 07, 2009

Submitted by Rpetty from Google Reader: Jim Capretta looks at the Baucus healthcare bill and concludes that, because the subsidies phase out as income rises, it imposes an effective marginal tax rate on income of about 30 percent for many families. Add that figure to the income tax, the payroll tax, and the phase-out of the EITC and "the effective, implicit tax r (Read More)

Oct 19, 2009

Submitted by Rpetty from Google Reader: (this is post #2 in a series on money and influence in politics)I like the Center for Responsive Politics. I really do. They make an incredible amount of data on lobbying and campaign contributions very easily available, which makes it much easier to be a political scientist studying this stuff.They also make it really easy (Read More)

5 days ago

louisgray-com Cross-Posted on my Ecademy Blog and Shared HereInformation is power - and the ability to take in more information more quickly than anybody else, all in one place, is an incredible power. The Web has been built to enable all of us to share and distribute information quickly, through new posts and links.Tools like RSS (Real (Read More)

Oct 30, 2009

Submitted by Rpetty from Google Reader: I favorited a YouTube video: Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) speaks on the Senate floor about his opposition to a hate crimes amendment being added to the defense authorization bill (H.R. 2647). (Oct. 22, 2009). (Read More)

Oct 19, 2009

Apple Hot News Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2009 fourth quarter ended September 26, 2009. The Company posted revenue of $9.87 billion and a net quarterly profit of $1.67 billion, or $1.82 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $7.9 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.14 billion, or $1.26 per di (Read More)

Oct 20, 2009

Engadget Ready for some interplanetary exploration? We've had the force shields, currency, and refuel stations all sorted out for a while, and now here come the ion thrusters we've been missing to make manned trips to Mars really viable. Currently, a return journey to Mars can take up to two years, with crew members having to wait a (Read More)

Oct 20, 2009

Just Another Mobile Phone Blog Apple today unveiled an all new iMac line featuring brilliant LED-backlit 21.5 and 27-inch widescreen displays in a new edge-to-edge glass design and seamless all aluminum enclosure. The new iMac line, starting at $1,199, is the fastest ever with Intel Core 2 Duo processors starting at 3.06 GHz, and Core i5 and i7 quad-core (Read More)

Oct 20, 2009

Submitted by Wpbasti from Google Reader: Ready for some more Apple news? Good. Say goodbye to the Mighty Mouse (for reasons beyond those legal entanglements) -- the Magic Mouse has arrived. Hate buttons or moving parts? So does Apple, and nothing exemplifies the company's march towards a buttonless future more than this "two button" mouse, which has one button an (Read More)

Oct 20, 2009

The Unofficial Apple Weblog Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Mac mini, Mac OS X ServerA few minutes after we heard about all of the new product announcements this morning, this email came in from TUAW reader Daniel:Can you god blessed brains explain in some easy-to-understand way what are the possibilities for a Mac mini server for us non-tech brained (Read More)

Oct 20, 2009

TechCrunch Today, Microsoft’s Windows Mobile Dev team released a humorous video giving a sneak peek inside the Microsoft Apps Lab. Here, you get a behind-the-scenes look at a few of the apps Microsoft dreamed up for its new Windows Marketplace, but were forced to reject for various reasons ranging from stupidity to lawsuits to physica (Read More)

Oct 09, 2009

Submitted by Rpetty from Google Reader: The Norwegian Nobel Committee wanted to let everyone know that they really like Barack Obama. They approve of his political views and they want him to remake the world according to his vision.  Okay, we get it.  The Norwegians, one of the most homogeneous societies in the world, whose sole significant imprint on the world s (Read More)

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