Globalization
Global Poverty Session at Yearly Kos Convention
I’ve been playing with a new service called ustream. It is kind of like YouTube, but it is live streaming video. I figured out this morning that streams can be saved and replayed. I missed the panel on Global Poverty with Susan McCue from ONE (formerly Harry Reid’s chief of staff) at the Yearly Kos [...]
LEAN – Maybe, MEAN – ??
Late last Friday afternoon I was IMing with one of my teammates at work, trying to solve a VPN-router issue, and he sent me the following URL; http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070504_002027.html, and told me to check it out. Needless to say, as a current employee of IBM Integrated Technology Delivery (aka Global Services, Strategic Outsourcing), the information in [...]
Senator Sherrod Brown’s Maiden Speech in the Senate
The new Senator from Ohio, Sherrod Brown, gave his maiden speech on the Senate floor last Thursday. I was working away at my computer, with CSPAN on low in the background, when I heard the following words (which actually turn out to be a quote of John Paul II) “We judge any economic system by [...]
Second Life at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum
I have been intrigued with Second Life ever since I found out about it several months ago. (IBM is reseaching possibilities for the use of this type of technology, and several folks at work blog on our internal blog about it, which is where it initially caught my attention.) I am convinced that this real-time, [...]
(RED) News From the World Economic Forum
Received an e-mail from Bobby Shriver this morning with great news about the success of the (RED) product campaign thus far. The entire update can be viewed at the joinred.com site, but I have provided some highlights below. In the last nine months, more than $20 million has been generated by (RED) partners, really by [...]
