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Reference: How Voters Can UNRIG the Two-Party Shell Game

How Voters Can Unrig the 2012 Elections with Transpartisan Voting Blocs and Electoral Coalitions Voters did not get what they said they wanted from the 2010 elections. In fact, they got the opposite because the two major parties rigged the elections. The parties have been rigging elections for decades by gerrymandering election districts and passing …

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Reference: Internet Governance

In this Council Special Report, Robert K. Knake briefly examines the technological decisions that have enabled both the Internet’s spectacular success and its troubling vulnerability to attack. Arguing that the United States can no longer cede the initiative on cyber issues to countries that do not share its interests, he outlines an agenda that the United States can pursue in …

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Journal: Microsoft’s Ozzie Memo Urges ‘Post-PC’ Devices, Services

Microsoft’s Ozzie Memo Urges ‘Post-PC’ Devices, Services By: Mark Hachman PCMAG.COM 10.25.2010 In a memo, Microsoft executive Ray Ozzie warned that the industry is moving to a post-PC world, and warned Microsoft employees that they must either lead or be pushed aside. The memo, entitled “Dawn of a New Day,” was dated Oct 28 and …

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Journal: Microsoft Pinned Between Google and Oracle-IBM

Oracle-IBM pact cuts Android off at the knees Larry Ellison’s latest move could seriously undermine Android, no matter how Oracle’s courtroom battles with Google turn out Here’s the story in a nutshell: Android apps are written in a restricted dialect of the Java language, which meant the platform had a vast and skilled developer community …

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Review: The Monk and the Riddle–The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living

Down to Earth, Absorbing, Perfectly Presented, “Must Read” October 10, 2010 Randy Komisar with Kent Lineback I’m putting this book into the 6 Star and Beyond category at Phi Beta Iota the Public Intelligence Blog, for two reasons: it has a proper definition of what business should be about–creativity and humanity; and it strives to …

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