Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
I’ve seen this on more than a few occasions and find it very disturbing. So, the Washington Post published a story on its website, revised the story to omit details that appeared in the relevant piece, and yet did not disclose these facts to the Post’s online readers. Isn’t this a problem? There may well [...]
On August 17, 2009 a massive hydroelectric dam on the Yenisei River, near Sayanogorsk in Khakassia, Russia experienced a catastrophic failure in the turbine room, which destroyed the turbine and engine room and flooded the structure. Six days later, when the structure had been pumped out, 76 people were known dead. The Sayano-Shushenskaya dam is [...]
yeah the “dwindling” coverage of the SF Ballet is a real bitch… “We’ve lost a lot,” said Hellman, who specifically bemoaned dwindling reporting on subjects like the San Francisco Ballet, local business openings and vetting of political candidates. “We’re going to be meeting an unmet need.” [From Hellman to invest $5 million in journalism nonprofit]
Cadillac, despite considerable progress on quality and performance issues (e.g. Cadzilla anyone?) has another major problem that is again entirely of it’s own making… they can’t compete with lease deals offered by other manufacturers. Just 6% of Cadillac customers in August leased a vehicle as opposed to buying one, according to Edmunds.com. That compares to [...]
Feedly is one of my favorite services, not only does it offer a highly polished presentation layer that makes reading my subscriptions more pleasing but it has a nice set of social features for sharing content and with their latest release a really compelling set of search and topic exploration features. If you have been [...]
In August of last year I wrote about A123 Systems and their planned IPO, it’s out of the gate today and what a ride as the IPO was oversubscribed with the market cap right now approaching $1.8 billion and showing little signs of slowing down. Energy storage is the most potent sector in cleantech because [...]
Google announced Sidewiki, an addon to Google Toolbar that allows any user to add notes to a webpage. Google Sidewiki is a new feature being added today to the Google Toolbar that allows anyone to leave comments about pages as they surf the web. Love something you’re reading? Hate it? You can share your views [...]
I don’t think anyone would deny that good journalism is both disciplined and increasingly not the domain of newspapers and broadcast media, but I find it interesting that the President would specifically latch on to the notion of a newspaper bailout by the Federal government as a potentially necessary step to combat the blogosphere. “I [...]
This is pretty amazing… you don’t need to know the story to know what the story is about. If nothing else she should get props for closing with a version of Metallica’s Nothing Else Matters.
This company has really gotten under my skin, but this latest action by Redflex and the city of Corona (CA) only serves to cement my dedication to covering every move they are attempting. The city’s proposal would ignore the California statute authorizing red light camera ticketing, setting procedures and establishing the fines. In its place, [...]