Talking of education, President Obama’s idea of exhorting America’s children to work hard via a nationwide address to schools is (of course) encountering resistance as did a similar initiative by President Bush in 1991: … Critics are particularly upset about lesson plans the administration created to accompany the speech. The lesson […]
Three Thousands Versts of Loneliness analyses Putin’s approach to Soviet and Russian history as revealed in his letter to Poland: The ‘Putinite regime’ is commonly portrayed as if it were intent on overseeing Stalin’s rehabilitation, often with the implied aim of entrenching its own, purportedly authoritarian, project. As this weblog […]
Wouldn’t it be great to have most of the books ever published accessible via the Web? But just as looking for a book in a bookshop is as easy (or not) as the way the bookshop categorises its books and subsequent accuracy in placing books on the shelves under the […]
That’s part of the secret to successful networks: everyone’s a member, no one is king… In the new post-industrial economy, I argue that there are three opportunities for growth and value: building platforms, building value atop those platforms (as entrepreneurs), and building networks to help these entities optimize their value. […]
As many senior international dignitaries gather in Gdansk today to commemorate the start of WW2, Russian Prime Minister Putin (one of the guests) has written an open letter to Poland to give a clear and (as of now) definitive Russian view on the Molotov/Ribbentrop Pact. Here is the Russian official […]
Via Ed Driscoll, this fine rant from 2000 against those who insist that urban life is the best there is: The book frowns on gated communities, of course, because they’re exclusionary. Conversely, they praise urban developments with dense housing – which include, I presume, apartment buildings with doormen and security […]
The growth of e-books is rattling publishers: Hardback books could be killed off if Amazon’s e-books and Google’s digital library force publishers to slash prices, Arnaud Nourry, chief executive of French publishing group Hachette, has warned. Mr Nourry said unilateral pricing by Google, Amazon and other e-book retailers such as […]
Another Crawf starts the long, painful, lonely trudge to high blogging readership. If ’twere done, ’twere best done early… Nice name!
Edwin Forprogress helpfully comments on one of my postings about Edward Kennedy and briefs us on the legacy of the great man: edwin forprogress.org So much of his ‘The Dream Shall Never Die’ speech is relevant now. It makes me sad that so many Americans do not know how much it was […]
Think. It as far from here to Sergeant Pepper as it is from him to 1925. Lawks. Getting old. And so it is that I recently have meandered back again to a couple of the records of my, hem, student years. Quadrophenia, by The Who. And (gulp) Tales of Topographic […]
