Catching up with the web... Geoffrey Colvin whacks the nail through the wood on this one: Bush vs. Kerry: Who's Stupider on Jobs? "George Bush and John Kerry are apparently competing to see who can be stupider on the hot-button issue of factory jobs... The simple truth, which no presidential candidate can utter, is that America doesn't have too few manufacturing jobs. It has too many." Just wait until we get competing proposals for manufacturing subsidies. It's a race to the bottom, and we lose. Stephen Den Beste has the truth. If you don't believe me, ask him :) Great stuff.
Ottmar Liebert comments on singles vs. albums. "I believe that a song has to be able to stand on its own, but is part of a whole cycle. Think of a song as a single poem in a book of poems." I think it would be very interesting to match Ottmar's music with visual art.
By now you've been inundated with news about Google's IPO filing, so there's not much I can add. John Battelle posted a nice analysis of the filing and the attendant "owner's manual" from Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Mitch Kapor wrote some insightful observations, too. You already know what I think - a great company, not a great stock. Wired wonders Will RSS Readers Clog the Web? Will they? No. Nice to see RSS syndication getting such mainstream publicity, however. If people are worrying about it becoming too popular, it must be catching on :) I really missed Matt Webb of Interconnected while he was recovering from a server disaster, and I'm glad he's back. Check out this post about packing. Who else would write this? Delightful. A source of unique memetic variation, to be sure :) Finally - and I am not making this up - Barbara Walters is hosting a reality show where the winner gets a baby. And psychic Uri Geller is suing based on a patent he owns. He must have seen this coming, I sure didn't. Wow. |
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