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Friday, August 1, 2003

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Ars Technica Adds Mac Feature Articles: "As currently conceived, this column will be dedicated to covering two or three major news items from the world of technology relating to Apple. We're not interested in duplicating the effort of the many Macintosh-related news and rumors sites. Instead, we'll dive a bit deeper on some issues that we think are important ." [MacSlash]

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During my vacation I had the time to read the following two good books:

The Innovator's Dilemma (Christensen; HarperBusiness Essentials)
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order (Strogatz; Hyperion)

The first book is a management classic, which appeared in hardcover in 1997. The second book is destined to be a classic science book. In addition, I ordered two additional books from Amazon:

Good to Great (Collins; HarperCollins)
The Seven-day Weekend (Ricardo Semler; Century)

I don't know it these will be as rewarding as the Christensen's book. I hope they are.

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The Scobleizer Weblog writes: "Does Microsoft has a new direction when dealing with Linux? Here's reports from: ComputerWeekly; Mary Jo Foley."

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Open Access News points to the web site for the Information Access Alliance. "As of today's official launch, the site is elegant and includes links to all the IAA's white papers and other supporting documents."

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Report: Poindexter to Resign: "Two conspicuous public-relations failures -- the terrorist futures market and the Terrorism Information Awareness system -- are apparently enough to convince John Poindexter to quit his job at the Department of Defense." [Wired News]

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One Down, Many More To Go: "John Poindexter, the retired Navy admiral who spearheaded two sharply criticized Pentagon projects, intends to resign from his Defense Department post within weeks, a senior U.S. defense official said on Thursday." [On Lisa Rein's Radar]