Ads are an inefficient business model, making indirect revenue as a result of behavior and advertising to people who don’t want to see them or for whom they’re irrelevant,” said Jeff Bonforte, Xobni’s chief executive. “Premium is a very direct and efficient model.
The project, which has been financed with private donations and grants, is intended to be self-sustaining: food will be grown onboard, some of it in hydroponic gardens; drinking water derived from purified rainwater; electricity generated through a mix of solar, wind and bicycle power; and waste recycled into compost.
Waterpod Is a Floating Green Home in New York City - NYTimes.com
Words are important. Mr. Obama was right when he urged leaders who privately speak of moderation and compromise to dare to say those words in public. But words are not enough. Mr. Obama, who, after all, has been in office for less than six months, has a lot to do to fulfill this vision. So do others.
Editorial - The Cairo Speech - NYTimes.com
Words are not enough indeed… but a wonderful start!
Historically, recessions have been a time when new companies, like Microsoft, get born, and good companies separate themselves from their competition. It makes sense. When times are tight, people look for new, less expensive ways to do old things. Necessity breeds invention.
Op-Ed Columnist - Invent, Invent, Invent - NYTimes.com
Damn Straight!
Beyond that, we need to wake up and realize that one of the keys to our nation’s historic success is now a wasting asset. Education made America great; neglect of education can reverse the process.
…post-9/11 I advocated that our politicians find sufficient courage to hike gasoline taxes and seriously commit ourselves to developing alternatives to oil. Economists agree that this would ultimately bring down the global price, and slowly deprive these regimes of the sole funding source that allows them to maintain their authoritarian societies. People do not change when we tell them they should; they change when their context tells them they must.
Thomas Friedman - This I Believe - NYTimes.com
Here Here!
Shelby.TV picked up in the NY Times today (a repost from a gigaom article).
This is my first time something I have worked on is in the Grey Lady.
