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Thursday, February 3, 2005 |
Probably not, but still worth a post.
[Wired News]: 'About 80 percent of Microsoft employees who have a portable music
player have an iPod, said one source, a high-level manager who asked
to remain anonymous. 'It's pretty staggering.'
10:38:40 PM 
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ACLU Pizza and Defanging 'the Matrix'
Coming to a homeland near you, unless...
6:19:33 PM
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The latest New Bottom Line is now posted: More on the Cost of Green: Why Green Building is Good Business
Guess what? It's as true about business strategy, product design,
industrial processes, food system and transportation infrastructure as
it is about buildings.
As Neal Pierce of the Washington Post comments,
'It seems obvious: the reason only a tiny percentage of
new American buildings and retrofits aren't green isn't cost. It's lack
of ingenuity or knowledge of new construction techniques -- architects
and builders wed to the 'same-old,' lenders leery of anything
unconventional.
The fault also lies with national leaders unwilling to tell us in
clear terms that a nation secure economically and environmentally and
against foreign threats, means energy savings across the board --
efficient and sustainable buildings included. It's a message our
current president apparently doesn't comprehend, at least won't
articulate.'
But that's a story for another time.
6:00:45 PM
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David Stephenson blogs on homeland security et al
talks about an important new study on networking behavior from the Ohio
State Research Foundation with implications for a many strategies,
including my "smart mobs for homeland security" one.
With very cool network visualizations in a variety of styles.
PS, he says, Check the Atlas of Cyberspace for some incredible graphic representations of cyberspace.
Still more cool graphics!
5:46:15 PM
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From Pamela Gordon of our ally Technology Forecasters: The Clock is Ticking -- Are You Ready?
'We can't be ready for RoHS yet,' I
heard a manufacturing manager at a mid-sized OEM say last month about
the Restriction of Hazardous Substances directive, 'because not all of
our components are available in lead-free. Besides, our Agile PCG
system won't be in place until spring.'
Prudent managers are worried, because
they realize that--like Y2K--the clock is ticking on the new
environmental requirements, and their products have to change in time
or they will lose customers. Yet the vast majority of OEMs are far from
being ready for the compliance deadlines--now just months away.
Pam offers a pair of very cogent 'reality check' tables: Common Explanations Why OEMs are Not Ready for RoHS and WEEE, and Issues Getting Less Press (and therefore less press)
See also my recent: It Began With a Dot: Product Regulation and Future Markets
5:40:16 PM
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