Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
Medicare and Medicaid are bankrupting the Federal AND state governments… which begs the question why anyone would propose what is essentially more Medicare and Medicaid? Why not fix Medicare before attempting to restructure 17% of the U.S. economy? It’s increasingly clear that the Obama healthcare plan will not cut costs or improve the quality of [...]
I’ve noticed that restaurants are sending an increasing amount of promotional emails and when I do eat in SF on the rare occasion, it’s quite often that there are many empty tables and last minute reservations are not a problem. Fine dining is under siege. Many places the writer mentioned are also the most expensive [...]
I agree with this statement: But industry executives believe the time has come for consumers to begin embracing dedicated readers, especially as the prices fall into a comfortable range. “There were readers who were perhaps unable to join the digital reading environment because our prior products might have been cost prohibitive,” said Brennan Mullin, vice [...]
There are 2 things about the red light program in Santa Ana that confirm what the critics of these programs, yours truly included, have been saying all along, it’s about revenue and not public safety. Santa Ana moved these cameras around at will, redeploying cameras in intersections that were not generating sufficient revenue to new [...]
I really don’t get this… General Motors Co. will let customers buy cars and trucks online from some California dealers through EBay Inc., the operator of the most-visited U.S. e-commerce Web site. Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Pontiac brands will be available at gm.ebay.com starting tomorrow through Sept. 8, GM and San Jose, California-based EBay said [...]
Here is why people, average people, don’t trust government to be involved in something as personal as healthcare. Time and again the Federal and state governments demonstrate that being a participant and a rule maker is impossibly conflicted and the result is byzantine regulations and processes that constitute a form of tyranny on the citizenry. [...]
After Firefox started repeatedly crashing because of how many windows and tabs I had open, I realized it was time for a long overdue links post. Online aggregators and newspaper strategy. Picard debunks the myth that newspapers perpetuate, that online search and aggregators are stealing content from them. Money quote: “Newspapers are now getting between [...]
So the only question I have for elected officials in the State of California is this: if tax breaks, cheap energy, and improved infrastructure are what is necessary to keep Toyota’s manufacturing plant from shutting down, why can’t we offer every business in California the same deal… tax breaks, cheap energy and better infrastructure? (08-05) [...]
I was not the only one to read this and make the Goodfellas connection. Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein has warned his employess to avoid making big-ticket, high-profile purchases as the gold-plated Wall Street firm hunkers down amid a firestorm of public and political anger over outsize bonus payments. [From GOLDMAN SACHS CEO LLOYD BLANKFEIN [...]
Normally I would twitter this instead of taking the time to blog it but the accompanying graphic is so powerful that it deserves to be blogged. In watching the Sunday talk shows yesterday I noticed that the Administration is once again moving the goal post for how to define success for the $800 billion stimulus [...]