Rice’s Riffs

Al Gore takes home the Nobel Peace Prize. Is his next move to run for President? I think maybe.
Tags: gore, president, candidate, nobel, peace, climate

We thought there were problems in the mortgage market, but now we are guaranteed long-term ramifications of this dramatic correction–the politicians have made it their issue.
Let’s take a look at what they are proposing and hypothesize what the long-term effect might become.
The Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke issues his assurance that The Fed stands [...]

Foreboding military alliance between former Soviet nation (Belarus) and Iran?
_________
Fits in with an ongoing thread–again, not in any of the US papers…
This is another great demonstration of the power of RSS and feed readers as an information UI. I am sure this persistent disconnect in US and foreign press is not a new thing, but [...]

This is the second time in a couple of weeks that I have noticed treads of significant issues showing in my increasingly International perspective RSS feed reader that are not appearing in the US press I typically read: NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Washington Times, NY Post, Wall Street Journal, memeorandum.
The first was a [...]

Dave Winer notes that no one in the US press is reporting the Iraqi President’s visit to Syria.
Coincidentally, I just added the English Al-Jazeera to my feed reader and saw this to be a key story in their reporting. This gave me the same tingling sensation that something was not right.

Robert Scoble, generally an apolitical blogger has just stepped in his blog and video camera into the 2008 Presidential race as a invited journalist of the Edwards’ campaign.
With the tech savvy Edwards and Barack Obama (with a regular blog and podcast) throwing their hat in the ring perhaps Joe Trippi’s decree, “The Revolution Will Not [...]

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 [...]

This Washington Post article on the Dems is a great life lesson. When you are focused on why you will not succeed or you forewarning excuses why you may not succeed–you will fail. A defeatist attitude will always defeat you.
The Democrats have still not found that core leader or leadership cadre that can make them [...]

The debate around Net Neutrality should not only focus on barriers to entry and discrimination of content. We should consider all of the unknow effects inherent in regulating and legislating markets.
I think we should let free markets do their thing. If the market determines that it is not getting enough out of the infrastructure providers [...]

Karl Rove Indicted on Charges of Perjury, Lying to Investigators. I won’t even go into the political ramifications of this report if it is true because I am again intrigued by the power of the “blogosphere.” Once again the phenomenon of blogging has completely scooped the news cycle and traditional media.
My quick survey of the [...]