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Bill Rice
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Bill Rice
Who reads newspapers anymore?
I guess President Bush reading newspapers constitutes a Christmas Day scoop for the New York Times. I think a bigger story might be if he didn’t read newspapers, but had found that he could consume about 50 times the amount of news, from more diverse perspectives using a news reader and RSS from hundreds of sources.
I haven’t had a subscription to a print newspaper in well over five years and I think I am better informed than when I used to get the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and New York Times.
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Bill Rice
The Economic and Social Effects of Falling Production and Distribution Cost
A couple of recent books should be studied by entrepreneurs and established businesses and their leaders. It seems that once every generation or every other generation there is innovation that creates major impact to key tenets of the economic equation. The effects of which fundamentally change our economic and social environment. The Internet was unquestionably one of those innovations, but its economic and social effects are just now being realized.
It has dramatically reduced the cost of production and distribution of goods and services. This democratizes political dialogue and social commentary on a far grander scale than the last major publishing blockbuster–the printing press. It also presents the opportunity to gain awareness and scale niche businesses to meet highly dispersed customer needs.
Glenn Reynolds’ (Instapundit.com) Army of Davids and Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail are important commentaries and should probably be in your reading list.
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Bill Rice
Marine Shooting of Iraqi in Fallujah Through Cameraman’s Eyes
This is a very interesting perspective of the Marine shooting of the Iraqi in the Fallujah mosque. It is the eyewitness account of the cameraman that shot the “pool” footage.
This link was caught through the sharp eye of Robert Scoble’s voracious human blog filter.
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Bill Rice
Iran: Nuclear Facility Used to Generate Electricity
This is why intelligence is such a tough business. It is a game of emotions, masked motivation, ideology, obfuscated psychology, and manipulation. It is like playing blind chess, without anyone telling you what the board looks like.
This report is a perfect example. Who is telling the truth? They both have advantage and disadvantage in their independent objectives to both lie or tell the truth on the matter.
This is precisely why it was so difficult to ascertain whether there was WMDs in Iraq even with the weapons inspectors. They are using these same sources.
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Bill Rice
WSJ.com – U.S. Forces Move Deeper Into Southern Fallujah
Cutting out this insurgent cancer in Fallujah is the only way to give Iraq’s infant democracy a chance. We must create, for the Iraqi people and their political process, a level playing field in January.
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Bill Rice
Wired News: Prof Pursued by Mob of Bloggers
It is unfortunate when we can not have healthy and professional political discourse.
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Bill Rice
BBC NEWS | Americas | Leaders hail Mid-East peace hope
This may be the biggest opportunity in history for regional stability and Palestinian/Israeli peace. Bush and Blair are demonstrating leadership in times when leadership and focused principles are unpopular.
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Bill Rice
Op-Ed Columnist Rubin Gets Shrill
Op-Ed Columnist: Rubin Gets Shrill
It is kind of interesting how the Democrats (even former Democratic appointees) are grasping at whatever straws possible to find negative spin for the election cycle. The current deficits are a necessary evil to current unforeseen foreign affairs and to straighten out the recession Clinton handed Bush as a transition present. Not withstanding the fact that if I wanted some one to responsibly contrain and rein back in spending after a stimulus oriented budget it would definately be a Republican not a pork-barrel, tax raising, big government Democrat that I would want in the White House.