Category: economics
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US debt and government borrowing must end now
We must insist our political leaders in the US stop deficit spending NOW. This must happen immediately, and we must get on a debt payoff plan as a nation NOW. If we do not and we persist on our path of ever deepening indebtedness, the consequences will inevitably be catastrophic for our nation.We must insist…
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Microsoft Copying Apple Store Experience
The clearest message communicated by the Microsoft Store in Fashion Valley Mall in San Diego seems to be: Redmond wants to offer shopping experiences like Cupertino. Remember days in the not-so-distant past when Windows-based laptops for sale by franchises like Office Depot and Best Buy were not connected to the Internet? That’s not the case…
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Terms of Service Agreements Users Don’t Read
When lawyers create extensively long documents which can have a significant impact on the lives of others, yet the documents themselves are too complex and long for “regular folks” to read and understand, something is amiss. That was the case with the 2010 health care legislation in the United States, which was over 2000 pages…
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Guerrilla Health Message Marketing
Guerrilla marketing can work for health education campaigns. This sticky note was left in a men’s bathroom in the College of Education at the University of Central Oklahoma today. I am not sure if a student club or class is doing this. It was effective: I read it, and now you did too! – Posted…
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Fund the Dreams of Students Through The Generation Project
The Generation Project provides an innovative way for anyone to make a specific kind of impact in the lives of children from lower income situations through financial giving and the recommendations of teachers. If you have a worthwhile activity or experience you’d like to fund (or partially fund) for a deserving, low income student, you…
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Do You Know? The Ethics of Technology Sweatshops
Mike Daisey is theatrical storyteller who recently traveled to the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, China, which Andrew Keen of TechCrunch describes as the: …430,000 person factory that manufactures around 50% of all the personal communications devices used in America. photo © 2010 Robert Scoble | more info (via: Wylio) After reading Devin Coldewey’s post on…
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Browser Wars and Codecs: WebM, H.264, Flash, Silverlight and the Future of Web Video
As a society we are witnessing a tectonic shift in the way video content is created, distributed, and consumed worldwide. Research like the 2010 Horizon Report makes the ascendency of the mobile web and proliferation mobile devices which access the Internet clear to see. Increasingly, content consumed on mobile devices includes videos as well as…
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Our need for systemic finance changes in US government
I posted the following as a comment on Darren Miller’s post, “Another Reason To Oppose Tax Increases.” Darren is a fellow USAFA grad, but has (in some cases) political views more conservative than my own. The gist of his post was that because our government leaders have a pattern of overspending, the solution is to…