Monday, January 31, 2005

Leadership in the 21st Century

Times Online: an aggressive, unstable man under enormous pressure, struggling to keep his irritability under control.

Well, there's the newspaper, but still

The last large company with Telegraph in their name is being sold.

Clarifrictations

An anonymous commenter busts my chops (correctly) for being unclear in Markets are conversations about more than vendor sports. I try to clear things up with a few simple questions.

ANDwidth

Sriram Krishnan has a long post on Solving the blog bandwidth problem using Bittorrent. One line among many: Keeping track of a blog on the server for a period of time since it was last requested would take care of the mini-Slashdot effect when someone like Doc Searls updates his blog.

Now Democracy

I've never been a fan of the Iraq war; but I'll aways be a fan of democracy (I agree with Churchill), and there can be no doubt that Sunday's elections were a huge milestone for democratic progress in the Middle East. (Eeyore complaints withstanding.)

This pic doesn't say it all; but it does say a lot.

A toast to everybody who helped make it happen.