April 2010 - Posts

• Monday, April 19, 2010 10:48 AM

  There Oughta be a Law: A WTF Moment at the Supreme Court

  On Tuesday, the US Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of City of Onterio vs. Quon , involving privacy issues on city-issued cell phones. It wasn't pretty. This band of geriatric jurists may know its habeas from its corpus , but they are non compos Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: generational theory, Politics, popular culture

• Tuesday, April 13, 2010 11:26 AM

  Paradigm Initiative Nigeria Named GSBI Recipient for 2010

  Congratulations to Paradigm Initiative Nigeria , the wide-ranging social enterprise dedicated to increasing ICT skills and capacity for economic development in Nigeria, for being named one of this year's Global Social Enterprise Incubator (GSBI) recipients. Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: Young World Rising, Africa, Incubation, blended entrepreneurship

• Tuesday, April 13, 2010 8:47 AM

  Immigration, Workforce Balance and Entitlements

  Over at Salon this morning, Michael Lind has a response to former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who had earlier argued that significant increases in legal immigration would be required to maintain the solvency of America's entitlement programs for the Read More... Posted by Rob | 1 Comments Filed under: Boomers, Politics, demographics, productivity, aging

• Friday, April 09, 2010 10:34 AM

  Africa Calling

  Via Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish blog, just saw this great piece by Jenny Aker an Isaac Mbiti in the Boston Review, looking at the spread of mobile telephony in Africa over the past decade. This trend, of course, is at the center of the dynamics driving Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: Young World Rising, Africa, mobile

• Thursday, April 08, 2010 4:26 PM

  Blast from the Past

  Found on YouTube: the intro to the Spider Video Game (Boss/BMG) that I wrote in 1996. Most fun project ever! Share this post: Facebook | Twitter | del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit | Google Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: popular culture, meta

• Monday, April 05, 2010 10:37 AM

  The High Costs of Legacy

  Clay Shirky posted a much-discussed article on the inability of complex business models to adapt in the face of shifts in the economic or cultural climate, which goes directly to one of the points I made in Young World Rising about the hidden costs of Read More... Posted by Rob | 4 Comments Filed under: Web 2.0, economics, Social Trends, collaboration and social computing, innovation