The Boston Globe profiles Jack Meyer, the investment banker who's in charge of Harvard's $12 billion endowment. [Scripting News]
Month: October 2004
Keeping Network Outages Secret
Schneier on Security: Keeping Network Outages Secret. There's considerable confusion between the concept of secrecy and the concept of security, and it is causing a lot of bad security and some surprising political arguments. Secrecy is not the same as security, and most of the time secrecy contributes to a false feeling of security instead… Continue reading Keeping Network Outages Secret
Pity the Poor User
Pity the Poor User. I've begun reading Tracing Genres through Organizations by Clay Spinuzzi. I bought it because I think genre theory is potentially the most-important-yet-least-appreciated topic in information architecture. Clay approaches the issue from his background in rhetoric, and the practice of technical communication. Still, he spends his first chapter laying out a cogent… Continue reading Pity the Poor User
The US trade deficit was $54.04 billion in August. The two major elements driving this is the deficit with China: $15.39 billion and oil producers: $14.18 billion. A big
The US trade deficit was $54.04 billion in August. The two major elements driving this is the deficit with China: $15.39 billion and oil producers: $14.18 billion. A big storm is brewing. [John Robb's Weblog]
NYT
NYT. Eliot Spitzer is great. He is doing the work that the government should be doing: going after corruption. Our system isn't nearly the level and efficient playing field it should be. His latest attack is on massive bid rigging by the insurance industry. I concur with Philip Bobbit that the nation-state system is giving… Continue reading NYT
William Gibson
William Gibson on military foresight. He's right. Fourth generation warfare and Netwar were penned in the US (Global Guerrilla theory brings those older concepts to the next level based on natural paths of evolution in motion today). Unfortunately, our enemies read this theory and applied it. Our “leaders” didn't. [John Robb's Weblog]
BW
BW. The US employment machine is in low gear and likely to stay that way. Another problem that's not well understood, a widespread employment downshift: the vast number of Amercian families that have found employment, but at a much lower level of income than they used to enjoy. Too bad part time employment or downshifting… Continue reading BW
More folks grokking the significance of Laszlo going Open Source
More folks grokking the significance of Laszlo going Open Source. John McDowdell groks it….. Open source rich client David Temkin CTO at Laszlo has made the gutsy move to Open Source. The is the first rich client application that has a chance of widespread adoption and can change the way we deliver client applications It… Continue reading More folks grokking the significance of Laszlo going Open Source
Recommendation on Legal Marketing: Ross Fishman
Recommendation on Legal Marketing: Ross Fishman. Ross Fishman, who recently spoke at our firm retreat about legal marketing (to rousing applause, I might add), recommended this book as useful guide to overall marketing strategy: Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind, by Al Ries and Jack Trout. While it seems strange to say this, I think… Continue reading Recommendation on Legal Marketing: Ross Fishman
Iraq audit can't find billions
Iraq audit can't find billions. WASHINGTON — About half of the roughly $5 billion in Iraq reconstruction funds disbursed by the US government in the first half of this year cannot be accounted for, according to an audit commissioned by the United Nations, which could not find records for numerous rebuilding projects and other payments.… Continue reading Iraq audit can't find billions