2 month ago
nelson : Terrorball - Lancing editorial about the ridiculousness of current domestic antiterrorism policy
deusx : Undressing the Terror Threat - WSJ.com - "No amount of statistical evidence, however, will make any difference to those who give themselves over to almost completely irrational fears. Such people, and there are apparently a lot of them in America right now, are in fact real victims of terro
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Rod Begbie : BBC NEWS | How to understand risk in 13 clicks - Handy explanation of one of the most common statistical tricks. #
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Douglas Bowman : Friction (by John Allsopp) - In one of the previously linked articles now available from Scroll Magazine, John writes about the unintended consequences of the web, and it’s impact on commerce and events, as well as its facilitation of making the printed word more social. Rather
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Doug Bowman : Friction (by John Allsopp) - In one of the previously linked articles now available from Scroll Magazine, John writes about the unintended consequences of the web, and it’s impact on commerce and events, as well as its facilitation of making the printed word more social. Rather
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doug : Friction (by John Allsopp) - In one of the previously linked articles now available from Scroll Magazine, John writes about the unintended consequences of the web, and it's impact on commerce and events, as well as its facilitation of making the printed word more social. Rather
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doug : Friction (by John Allsopp) - In one of the previously linked articles now available from Scroll Magazine, John writes about the unintended consequences of the web, and it's impact on commerce and events, as well as its facilitation of making the printed word more social. Rather
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15 month ago
Linkorama : The Path to Economic Recovery: Fear, Safety Zones, and One Day at a Time - What will fuel a recovery, more than anything, is a return to a more realistic, if not optimistic, perception of our economy that includes an understanding, and embracing, of its fragility as much as its potential. Much of the problem with bubbles is not
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wearehugh : The End of Wall Street's Boom - National Business News - Portfolio.com
Jeremy Zawodny : The End of Wall Street's Boom - The End of Wall Street's Boom: an excellent piece by Michael Lews on the mortgage crisis and wall street... it's a must-read
Linkorama : The End of Wall Street's Boom - The era that defined Wall Street is finally, officially over. Michael Lewis, who chronicled its excess in Liar’s Poker, returns to his old haunt to figure out what went wrong.
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33 month ago
Linkorama : Executives get the blogging bug - WSJ article in full on public company CEO blogging
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34 month ago
erikbenson : The moment between you and remarkable. - It's true that the fates of greats and averages are determined in a few simple moments when you look over the face of the cliff and the exciting unknown.
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35 month ago
Linkorama : Innovation Ecosystem - What is happening in Europe that is enabling regions to start becoming low risk environments to do high risk things in, is the ascension of a class of entrepreneurs that have had success.
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36 month ago
Linkorama : A closed mind about an open world - It is not that openness is always right. Rather, it is that we need a balance between open and closed, owned and free, and we are systematically likely to get the balance wrong. Partly this is because we still do not understand the kind of property that e
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38 month ago
erikbenson : James Hong: On Having Balls, Part II: Staying Hungry - Words out of my own brain.
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41 month ago
Linkorama : Enterprise 2.0: the next generation - A growing number of banks are using Web 2.0 technologies within their risk management, trading and research operations. Clive Davidson looks at how blogs, wikis and podcasts are being applied by financial services companies
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45 month ago
Linkorama : Social software in risk management - Managing the unknown first requires making the known transparent
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45 month ago
Linkorama : How Failure Breeds Success - "The performance culture really is in deep conflict with the learning culture," says Paul J. H. Schoemaker, CEO of consulting firm Decision Strategies International Inc. "It's an unusual executive who can balance these."
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46 month ago
philgyford : Startup Reality Distortion #4: Flickr, MySpace and Others Did It, So You Can Too - Second in today's links that crush dreams.
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49 month ago
Linkorama : Deal or No Deal - Successful entrepreneurs systematically eliminate risk while building increased value in their companies. While some factors are outside an entrepreneurs control (e.g. market adoption), many of the risks are influenced by the smart choices made by entrepr
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53 month ago
Linkorama : Supporting Innovation in Open Communities - A major next step is being taken this week with the formation of the Open Invention Network (OIN), a new company with the basic mission of acquiring patents and using them to further the advancement of Linux. OIN is creating an innovative business model
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53 month ago
Andy Baio : Risk on Google Maps - the next version will attempt multiplayer [via]
Rod Begbie : Risk via Google Maps - Best use of a mapping API yet. [via] #
deusx : Risk via Google Maps v0.9.4 - it's Risk, using a Google Map as a gameboard.
Philippe Janvier : Risk with Google - Va falloir réapprendre les règles du jeu :) [via] #
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54 month ago
Linkorama : Dude, relax, it's plastic - Om: Broken screens, scratches, and what not - this is a full scale PR disaster in the making. Steve Jobs and the gang have never enjoyed the market share, and the consumer glare like this ever before. The response from the company, even in its statements
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56 month ago
deusx : Lux :: Free Download of the online Risk board game clone Lux - "Lux is an awesome 'Risk' style game of world domination."
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57 month ago
Linkorama : Acceptable Downtime - On SLAs in volatile markets
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57 month ago
Linkorama : DFJ's John Fisher on Venture Investing - Swing for the fences
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