17. mars 2003

Superstition stuns this blogger "'Talking fish' stuns New York" (BBC News headline) I laughted so much when I first read this story I forgot to blog about it. By now, of course, everybody has heard it already. 9:12:05 PM    comment []

The secret of Google's success A very interesting article about Google, the company that managed to avoid the dot-com bubble bursting and keep growing. The secrets are to remain customer-focused, be open and share ideas with the world, learn from failures and move on, people can manage themselves and users translates into money. That simple, eh? Well, you need a brilliant idea at first too, I guess. 9:01:04 PM    comment []

The age of fear Cough in an airport these days, and you are likely to be rushed away into quarantaine. The mystery disease SARS are threatening to scare away those people not already discouraged from travelling by the looming war against Iraq. Perhaps I have a somewhat rosy-eyed view of the world between the end of the cold war and 9/11, but I don't doubt that pessimism and fear is actually more prevalent these days than it was a few years back. Yet life is actually not bad for most of us. Life expectancy hit a all-time high of 77.2 years in the US in 2001. The reasons are many, most important probably a reduction in smoking, less violent crimes and working treatment programmes for AIDS. Yet, people are more scared and pessimistic than ever. The media shares its blame for spreading the bad news much more rapidly and effectively than ever, leading to a scared population. But what are bloggers doing? We do the same. We concentrate on war, death and destruction, propagating the negative vibes and the memes for pessimism throughout the world. 2:21:50 PM    comment []

New Virtual Occoquan A smoking new issue of the Occoquan Inquirer is out, with some of the best writing of the past week on Salon blogs. Don't miss this! 12:57:13 PM    comment []

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