Seems that ValleyWag doesn’t understand that Google Docs now works offline. However, that wouldn’t make a good story for them.
Breakdowns: Google Docs goes down just in time for morning meetings
Also of note; they don’t understand that morning meetings are occuring 24/7 a week because there are meetings that occur outside of the valley!
…it pours bad news!
“The article focuses primarily on three measures: the monthly Consumer Price Index (CPI), the quarterly Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and the monthly figure for the unemployment rate. Phillips convincingly demonstrates that the real unemployment rate in the United States is between 9 and 12 percent, not the 5 percent or less that is officially claimed. The real rate of inflation is not 2 or 3 percent, but instead, between 7 and 10 percent. And real economic growth has been about 1 percent, not the 3-4 percent officially claimed during the most recent Wall Street and housing bubble that has burst.”
Data Fudging 101. The History Of US Government Statistics Manipulation | MadConomist.com
It would be nice to think that one result of this mess would be real international standards for economic reporting. However, I can’t see that happening. Can you?
“OLPC has shipped over 300,000 units to kids around the world. They plan to ship at least another 50,000 more each month, and very likely more than that. It’s entirely possible that by the end of 2008, there will be a million OLPC systems deployed worldwide.”