That’s it; I’m famous (for less than 15 mins).
I’m on YouTube…
OLPC sales figures announced…
OLPC campaign nets $35 million; 100,000 units go to emerging markets | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
I’d say that selling 200,000 laptops that nobody had seen was a great start.
However, I maintain that they need to sell them outside the US and that they need more than a limited time offer.
Clarkson is even luckier than he is stupid…
Watching Jeremy Clarkson is often like watching a small child. He loves explaining to the world how stupid everyone but Jeremy Clarkson is; that he writes for The Sun just confirms the worst opinions of him.He’s often right but far, far, far more often he’s wrong. Just to prove how clever he was he printed his bank account details in The Sun…
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Clarkson stung after bank prank
Now he’s got a £500 bank transfer on his account. What’s surprising is that is all he seems to have; even better it’s to a charity. I can’t believe that he’s not been wiped out.
Maybe this will help people understand how serious data privacy is.
Amen…
tompeters! management consulting leadership training development project management
“Concluding reminder: Any project worth doing is worth doing because in some small or large way it challenges “the way we do things around here.” Moreover, it is a given that bosses are primarily hired to be cops who make sure that we do things “the way we do things around here.” I’d guess that 98% of projects fail in terms of even near-total implementation. And 98% of the 98% failures are the results of lousy political and networking skills—not selection of the wrong project management software package. Hence “the work” of projects is the political implementation of ideas and processes, which necessarily engender emotional resistance by the powers that be. We who would change things are insurgents.”
Thoughts about the election…
I was going to write a long post about it; then John Robb did it for me…
John Robb’s Weblog: Interesting NH primary thoughts
I actually said before Christmas that Obama would be the candidate and that he’d loose the general election. I think that most of the press are under-estimating the hill that the Dems have to climb. Nobody saw a massive Bush victory in 2004 and yet that is what they got.
Intel leaves OLPC…
BBC NEWS | Technology | One laptop project loses partner
So, in summary, first they refused to take part, then they launched a competing product, then they join the project, they then ask for changes and then finally leave.
First, it doesn’t sound like they know what they want.
Second, the only thing they’ve not done to try and hurt OLPC is legal action. I suppose this will happen before Easter!
More on Ché Scoble…
Nicolas Carr has a good review on the Scoble vs. Facebook fight.
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Scoble: freedom fighter or data thief?
If I remember correctly from my training, the data remains the information of the person that entered it. Also, the company storing the data, in this case Facebook, should not use it any way that hasn’t been agreed to by the originator of the data. If they do not protect the data they’re in breach of their data privacy rules.
If I’m right, it means that Scoble doesn’t have a leg to stand on and will loose his Facebook access for good.
I suppose the way to look at this is that Facebook’s terms of service are the way that Facebook applies data privacy law and ensures that it protects the data of the users that Scoble has linked to. Scoble isn’t alone, he’s got to think of the 5000 people he’s linked to; he needs permission from the 5000 to do this.
It’s not just the toilets…
I left the UK 12 years ago and haven’t looked back. This rings so true…
Flushed with shame at Britain | Alice Miles – Times Online
In my experience whenever you point things like this out in the UK you get one of two responses…
– “Well, it would be worse in X country”
– “Well there is no other way of doing it”
The first response shows the slide towards the “you’re either with us or against us” nationalism of Fox News and the second shows a complete lack of fight or belief that they can or should push for change.
I have an old friend who often says”why don’t they just make it work?” about trains, the NHS and other problems. The toilets could be fixed if someone cared.
On a related point; I saw this yesterday…
“The unhappiest emigrants were in France, and the United States, with nearly 19 per cent and 14 per cent respectively disappointed with their new life.”
This is the unhappiest? I bet that more than 19% of people were unhappy with a move within the UK.
Can you hear the boom? That’s the Scoble effect…
Scoble’s done something and got his Facebook account blocked. My bet was that he was getting his contacts out to put in another system. TechCrunch UK reports it here…
TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » Facebook blocks Scoble for downloading his contacts
The Facebook people are currently asleep, this will probably be out of control by the time that they wake up. Scoble can blog quicker than they can react.
It’s a pity that Facebook isn’t on the NASDAQ because I’d like to measure the Scoble effect!
Election Hyperbole…
It’s all too easy to forget the progress of the last ten centuries…
The next ten years will run roughshod over the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, the formation of American democracy, the printing press, interchangeable parts, division of labor, the end of slavery, nuclear technology, antiseptics, the theory of gravity, the theory of relativity, the rise of communism, two world wars, universal suffrage, landing on the moon, and the Internet.”