Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
The SF Chronicle is promoting a digital version of the newspaper, an exact replica of the print newspaper, for $100 a year. Why the hell would I want a replica of a print newspaper on my computer? The whole point of using the web is that I can escape the inadequacies of print publications… And [...]
This interesting because Oprah has not historically delivered her dramatic offline “Oprah effect” with online services she featured on her talk show. What’s different about Twitter? Probably name recognition more than anything else combined with a general lack of understanding about what it is, so when Oprah endorsed Twitter a significant number of people who [...]
Following the Revolutionary War the first Treasury Secretary, Alexander Hamilton, proposed a then unpopular plan for the Federal government to take on the war debts of the states that were accumulated to finance the war against Britain. Hamilton’s genius was on display here, recognizing that for the Federal government to have real power it needed [...]