Jul 06, 2009

Twine | Web 3.0 - Semantic Web items Pandemics. Global warming. Food shortages. No more fossil fuels. What are humans to do? The same thing the species has done before: evolve to meet the challenge. But this time we don’t have to rely on natural evolution to make us smart enough to survive. We can do it ourselves, right now, by harnessing technology and pharma (Read More)

Jul 06, 2009

Submitted by Weskus: Since the last week of June, the stock market has whipsawed in a tight range. Gone is the hot-headed exuberance but neither has a drastic correction materialize. Some bulls are still holding the fort amid a thin market volume, but deciphering market sentiment is difficult as false signals can be easily generated by a few ma (Read More)

Jul 03, 2009

Submitted by Weskus: UNTIL the early 1990s nobody much thought about whole populations getting older. The UN had the foresight to convene a “world assembly on ageing” back in 1982, but that came and went. By 1994 the World Bank had noticed that something big was happening. In a report entitled “Averting the Old Age Crisis”, it argued that pensi (Read More)

Jun 28, 2009

guardian.co.uk Politics Last October, Gordon Brown was furious with bankers. "I'm angry at irresponsible behaviour," he told GMTV, as he unveiled a £500bn plan to rescue a banking system near collapse. "Where there is excessive and irresponsible risk-taking, that has got to be punished. The day of big bonuses is over."Last week, the angry man of p (Read More)

Jun 28, 2009

Submitted by Weskus: From the glory of the first half to the dust and desolation of the second as the 2009 British and Irish Lions went the same way as their 2001 and 2005 predecessors, losing a series and suffering a seventh straight defeat against the global powers of South Africa, New Zealand and Australia. (Read More)

Jun 25, 2009

Submitted by Weskus: Record credit card losses are pushing big US banks to come to the rescue of off-balance sheet vehicles they use to transform hundreds of billions of dollars in consumer loans into securities sold to investors. (Read More)

Jun 24, 2009

Contrarian Stock Market Investing News - Featuring Bargain Stocks Since I last suggested gold looked “toppy,” our projected government budget deficit ballooned to $1.75 billion. The Fed decided to print money non-stop to fund a $1.15 trillion asset purchase program. Economic upheaval continued, including several major bankruptcies. Political unrest erupted in Iran. And North Korea stepped (Read More)

Jun 22, 2009

Submitted by Weskus: Earlier this week, amidst travel and trying really hard to work, I followed the events of what was happening in Iran post-election. I followed it all on Twitter.There are many comments I could make on the events, but I wanted to highlight something that will be important for how information and participation happens in the (Read More)

Jun 19, 2009

MediaShift Twitter's role in the Iranian election aftermath leaves no doubt about its power as a global, real time, citizen-journalism style news wire service, along with a tool for facilitating dissent, while countering the view of Twitter as simply a zone for egotistical banality. But it also highlighted Twitter's role as a platform (Read More)

Jun 18, 2009

Submitted by Weskus: Heinrich Brüssow's fetching skills and Frans Steyn's boot have given the British and Irish Lions coaches reasons to be worried, ahead of choosing their team for the first Test. (Read More)

Peter Hollard

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