Category: Business & Economics | Media & Technology
Published on Apr 21, 2007

Trying (and failing) to buy WKRP in Cincinnati

Wikinomics blogger Denis Hancock has a hilarious post about the ridiculous state of intellectual property madness in today’s economy. Here’s an excerpt. In and attempt to fulfill my contractual obligations as a member of the Net Generation, for years I’ve been trying to get my parents to buy something online. While they have “stubbornly” refused for a variety of reasons, this changed yesterday when I got an email from my Dad who was looking at [...]

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Category: Environment & Sustainability
Published on Apr 05, 2007

Google Earth: a platform for social awareness

New Paradigm colleague Paul Artiuch just tipped me off about this amazing new app on Google Earth. Google has teamed up with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to create awareness of the atrocities in the Darfur region of Sudan. Darfur, which has been labeled by the U.S. as the first genocide of the century, has seen over 200 000 deaths and 2.5 million displaced since the start of the conflict in 2003. The initiative, [...]

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