Alan Greenspan has warned that US economic growth has stalled and a quick recovery is not likely. It is easier for him to make public statements like this now that his job performance does not depend on America’s economic confidence.
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Chaordic giant VISA to IPO
Visa, the trillion dollar credit card administration business, is to be listed on a stock market. It will be interesting to see if the innovative company structure designed by Dee Hock (Chaordic Commons) will be compromised by the listing. It won’t immediately. But the very nature of shareholdings is so fundamentally different from the member …
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Kdenlive video editing is great.
I recently ventured into the world of digital video editing. It was a fun and easy journey thanks to kdenlive. This software was installed with the package manager on a oss 10.3 x64 laptop. Configuration settings were checked (mostly keeping default values). A 3 minute video was loaded. Then it was cut in to segments …
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Don’t waste energy on the US presidential race
As the year begins so the media coverage of the US presidential race rises. So much so that it seems almost like time filler already. But coverage is mostly irrelevant and a distraction to most people, not just outside the US but also within. It is irrelevant to those outside the US because they can …
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Oh not again …! Mountain biking on video
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Cooperative learning
Cooperative learning is an idea that is gaining traction. The approach is more productive and efficient than competitive learning, which is the staple of most schools. Below is a useful introduction from the Georgia Educational Technology Training Center. Cooperative Learning Cooperative learning is a successful teaching strategy in which small teams, each with students of …
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BT Notes: Kung Hei Fat Choi, fishing, …
Happy New Year! Chinese New Year that is! We have fond associations with Chinese New Year from our decade in Asia and wish all our friends a happy, peaceful and fulfilling Year of the Rat. The year of the Rat started with the new moon at the end of last week. To celebrate yours truly …
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Using Nature as a Design Guide
Read BusinessWeek’s article about biomimicry here, and see the slideshow.
Dealpedia – business deal info …
Michael Rbertson, founder of Linspire (formerly Lindows 🙂 ), has just launched Dealipedia – a business wiki for mergers, acquisitions, venture investments, IPO and other deals. Launching with nearly 20,000 deals, but also never before revealed info like how much Yahoo paid for Flickr, how much Google paid for Grandcentral and how much the founders …
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Earth Pulse – a visual guide to global trends from National Geographic
Check it out here. Its visually pleasing and loaded with data and insight. Sections are Human Condition Trends, Our Relationship With Nature Trends, and Our Connected World Trends.