EV Not-So-Quick Recharging
EV proponents underestimate the seriousness of the battery recharging time element and the obstacle it will become to establishing large fleets of EVs on American roads. The EV industry has established a reality distortion field in order to avoid the unpleasantness of a fact that impairs their marketplace agenda and the media has more than [...]
Keynesian Porn
Read this and thought “right on brother”. it ain’t exactly the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Every American who pays taxes is invested in your EV at this point. Self-righteousness gets you nowhere when the playing field ain’t level. Just sayin… [From Quote Of The Day: Don’t Make Me Pull This Oversubsidized Niche [...]
Lean vs Fat Startups: The Disrupt Debate
This is the “tastes great, less filling” debate that recurs on a regular basis in the venture capital and entrepreneur communities. Back in March, Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz wrote a post called The Case For The Fat Startup, where he outlined some of the reasons why a fledging company might want to consider taking [...]
Dear Microsoft, Why Do You Make It So Difficult?
Like a lot of people I paid attention when Microsoft updated Hotmail and declared war on Gmail. That’s a bold move and to pull it off they must be confident that the features they are delivering really are transformative… but having done it with Bing (love it, don’t use Google much at all anymore) I [...]
Artists We Like – Christian Burchard
It’s been a while since I wrote about an artist that I enjoy so I thought it was time to feature Christian Burchard. People in art circles talk all the time about “organic forms” and for the most part it’s just a fancy way of saying art that flows with curves and radiuses to mimic [...]
Algorithm That Measures Sarcasm
“The pursuit of machine intelligence means we have to come up with ways to communicate with our computers in a way both entities can understand. But while computers process verbal commands in a straightforward fashion, humans tend to use more sophisticated speech forms, employing slang or symbols to convey an idea. So an Israeli research [...]
Automotive MalWare, There’s An App for That
The University of Washington released an interesting, as well as lengthy and detailed, report about the security of automotive electronics, more precisely the lack of security. I would encourage you to read the report in full, it’s pretty eye opening. The key finding is that hackers will not be far behind auto makers attempts to [...]
Chavez Uses Twitter to Intimidate Venezuelans
I read this and realized that the social media industry has indeed become mainstream when thuggish potentates in banana republics are using Twitter to suppress and intimidate the citizenry. CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez urged supporters to use Twitter to blow the whistle on currency speculators on Sunday and announced that police raids on [...]
The Swan Returns
Last year at this same time I wrote about something I observed in our garden… it returned with a vengeance this year. I uploaded a large image so click on this one to see it in it’s full glory.
Wealth Gap
My friend Meryl sent me this and asked for comment… rather than send her 40 tweets I thought a blog post was in order. The basic thesis of the Business Insider piece is that the gap between rich and poor has widened. By the way, the world isn’t flat either… Here’s my problem with this [...]
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My name is Jeff Nolan and I write Venture Chronicles. I am the VP of Product Marketing for Get Satisfaction and I write about a range of topics that interest me, including public policy, technology, entrepreneurship, finance, and global issues.
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