Gil Friend’s Blog
Worldchanging is not always in the direction you expect
What's New in the Legal World? A Growing Campaign to Undo the New Deal. States' rights conservatives are making progress in their drive to restore the narrow view of federal power that predated the New Deal. By By ADAM COHEN. [NYT > Opinion] In pre-1937 America,...
Radio redux
Reinstalled the app, and it's upstreaming again. Yay. But my main template (with recent postings, blogroll, etc) is gone - at least for now.
The real Google story of the week…
...isn't the 'type ahead' beta noted yesterday. It's the library story! As the Financial Times reports, Google, the leading service for finding information on the internet, yesterday set out ambitious plans to become a catalogue and digital library for world...
Forgot to leave home without it
There are also important cases (not just high profile murder cases) at the San Mateo County courthouse -- ones that might even affect you. John Perry Barlow and the 4th Amendment -- you know, the one about unreasonable search and seizure -- take on the TSA and the...
Google, one step ahead of you
[Seth Godin]: Red Maxwell points me to Googles new beta site. Google. Interesting. "As you type, Google will offer suggestions."
It’s all about design #371
Viridian Design Principles - more provocations from Bruce Sterling A. Futurist principles "Eat What You Kill" "Avoid the Timeless, Embrace Decay" "Planned Evanescence""The Future is History -- Be When You Are" "History Accumulates" B. Moral Principles"Look at the...
Powertools for entrepreneurs
[InfoBase Ventures]: Here is a longer list of powertools for entrepreneurs as mentioned in the Nov. 2004 issue of Connect Magazine. Most of these tools are free. http://www.infobaseventures.com/powertools.html
The Long and the Short of It
My latest "New Bottom Line" essay, available now on our web site and next week at greenbiz.com, takes a look at the question of short and long loops, large and small scale, and their implications for sustainability and trade. Small, short. Big, long. No, it's not a...
AWOL ending?
Well, almost. I've been AWOL from blogging, partly because of an intense travel schedule, partly because waiting for advice on how to solve my Radio posting problems. Seems the only solution is to reinstall; that will happen soon, and then I'll resume normal rhythm, I...