In a couple of days, the baseball trade deadline on July 31 will pass. Both local teams here in the San Francisco Bay Area have interesting decisions to make or already have made important trade decisions: The San Francisco Giants finished last season with one of the worst offenses in baseball and didn’t make a [...]
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National Health Care Spending Levels: A Global Comparison
Posted in Public Policy, tagged Health Care Spending as a % of GDP, Hospital Beds per 1000 Population, Jacob Weisberg, Obama Health Care Plan, OECD, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, The Healing of America, TR Reid on July 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This month, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released a comprehensive health data report, comparing health care statistics across OECD countries. Their website and study can be found here and an excel file with a sampling of their data is also available. With the recent flurry around the Obama administration’s health care proposals, [...]
PC Profit Pools in the era of Netbooks
Posted in Internet, Technology, tagged Google and Netbooks, Google Chrome, Intel and Netbooks, Intel Atom Processor, Microsoft and Netbooks, Netbooks, PC Profit Pools, Profit Pools: A Fresh Look at Strategy, Verizon Netbook offer on July 13, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Recently, there has been lots of coverage and discussion about netbooks. Netbooks have been flying off the shelves, along with iPhones- perhaps the only consumer computing or communications device that is actually selling well. It seems that everyone in the carrier, software, computer, and internet space is excited about netbooks. But at a price point [...]
Is the Facebook news feed a motivator or a demotivator?
Posted in Internet, Technology, tagged Facebook, Facebook News Feed Motivation, News Feed on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Facebook news feed has become an essential component of many people’s daily online activities—a key element to the social media experience. Through the news feed, people now know more about their friends and co-workers lives than ever before. For example, many people may have only really known about a colleague before Facebook through their [...]
Electronic and Erasable Paper- evolving technologies
Posted in Environment, Technology, tagged EInk Corporation, Electronic Paper, epaper, Erasable Paper, Kindle, Prime View International, Xerox Erasable Paper on July 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
When thinking about ways to reduce the usage of traditional paper beyond simply changing usage patterns, some of the technologies that can contribute to that goal include electronic paper, erasable paper, erasable ink, and alternative resource (besides tree) paper. There have been exciting developments in each of these technologies, but want to focus on two [...]
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