Segmentation Fault: Core dumped..;-)

Here Comes Everybody

anand — Wed, 28 May 2008 06:45:01 +0000

I am a huge fan of Clay Shirky. He now joins the rank of Thomas Friedman as someone who I would happily pay to listen.

If the world were a village of 100 people

anand — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:50:11 +0000

Incredibly informative piece of video.

We’re all a bunch of Monkeys

anand — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:46:49 +0000

Nice video, although I think it could have a better, more inspiring, ending. Or not..

Shift Happens

anand — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:56:50 +0000

A timely invitation to view a thought provoking video (U.S. perspective) about how economic globalization, demographics, and rapid technological changes are shifting the status quo of our world (Facts in the video have not been validated). I got this from an internal newsletter within Cisco. Thought the information might be useful for a larger audience.

Traditional Journalism Vs Bloggers

anand — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 03:55:39 +0000

[via Great Quote]

"You're going to be up against people who have an opinion, a modem, and a bathrobe. All of my life, developing credentials to cover my field of work, and now I'm up against a guy named Vinny in an efficiency apartment in the Bronx who hasn't left the efficiency apartment in two years"
- Brian Williams, anchor of the "NBC Nightly News," speaking before New York University journalism students on the challenges traditional journalism faces from online media. (Source: WSJ)

Globalization

anand — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 07:41:15 +0000

I’ve always believed in free trade...But I’m not a free trader anymore. I’m now a radical free trader. Why? Because in this new era of globalization, so many people now have the communication and innovation tools to compete, connect and collaborate from anywhere. As a result, business rule No. 1 today is: Whatever can be done will be done by someone, somewhere. The only question is whether it will be done by you or to you.

Last week, I was in Nebraska, where I met Doug Palmer. He and his partner, Pat Boeshart, make insulated concrete forms for buildings. The traditional way to insulate concrete with foam is to make the foam and then truck it around the country to building sites to be attached to concrete. Mr. Palmer’s company, Lite-Form, found a Korean machine that, when combined with devices added by his firm, can make the foam and concrete together on site, saving big dollars in trucking. Today, Mr. Palmer’s South Sioux City company imports these machines from Korea, attaches its devices and exports them to Kuwait. His company has an Arabic brochure that tells Kuwaitis how to use the device. The brochure was produced by a local ad agency owned by the Winnebago Indian tribe of Nebraska. The agency was started by the tribe’s economic development corporation. Midwest Indians publishing Arabic brochures for Nebraskans importing from Koreans for customers in Kuwait ...

The way you keep good jobs in this country is not by building big walls, but by attracting people with big ideas — and then giving them the freedom to do whatever can be done with anyone, anywhere, anytime.
- Thomas Friedman, "Big Ideas and No Boundaries"

Nice.

Petro-authoritarianism

anand — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 06:19:33 +0000

According to Bloomberg.com, in 2005 Iran earned $44.6 billion from crude oil exports, its main source of income. In the same year, the mullahs spent $25 billion on subsidies to buy off the population. Bring the price of oil down to $30 and guess what happens: All of Iran’s income goes to subsidies...But right now, Chávez, Ahmadinejad and all their petrolist pals think we are weak and will never bite the bullet. They have our number...Mr. Bush prattles on about spreading democracy and freedom, but history will actually remember the Bush years as the moment when petro-authoritarianism — not freedom and democracy — spread like a wildfire and he did nothing serious to stop it.
- Thomas L. Friedman, "Fill ’Er Up With Dictators"

Amen.