Rose Cantine

Larry McMurtry, a well-known American writer, says that the book is one of many endangered species:
The end of the culture of the book. I’m pessimistic. Mainly it’s the flow of people into my bookshop in Archer City. They’re almost always people over 40. I don’t see kids, and I don’t see kids reading. I think [...]

Watch this video of Senator Byron Dorgan (D-North Dakota) predicting the latest financial crisis. Is he the only thinking person up there on Capitol Hill?

An entrepreneur’s honest assessment of what went wrong
Apple has 66 percent of market for $1000-plus computers

Chinook salmon vanish without a trace
Supermarket data breach compromises 4.2 million accounts
Seth Godin: Why bother having a resume?
37 Signals: Keep it simple, stupid

There is a fascinating article in the Canadian Financial Post on Geosign, a company that took in $160M in venture capital funding in March 2007 only to fall apart a year later because their business model consisted of gaming the search engines, known as “search arbitrage” which is nothing more than sending people who click [...]

The French don’t just have better food and clothes, they have faster, cheaper broadband too. In Paris you get 50 Mbps symmetrical for 30 EUR per month! Want to know how they got there? The French regulator comes down very hard on France Telecom (read here).
How’s Blyk (the free-mobile-calls-for-ads) doing? Not bad. Will this business [...]

If you have been living in a cave for the past 24 hours, you just missed Apple’s release of the world’s thinnest laptop (no CD or DVD drive, finally) and the beginning of the end of the cable TV industry. Read these posts on Pajama Entrepreneur:

Apple releases world’s thinnest laptop
Did Apple kill the cable TV?

Unfortunately, [...]

Jason Calacanis, founder of Mahalo (the human-powered search engine) gave one of the best presentations at the Le Web 3.0 conference in Paris which took place from December 11-12, 2007. Jason’s presentation was entitled “Internet Pollution and How to Stop It”. He points out that much of the content on the Internet is spam and [...]

Not a day goes by without some kind of revelation about what’s being done with our user-generated content and our personal information on social networking sites and blog networks. The scandal around Facebook’s Beacon project, whose aim is to track and broadcast what Facebook users are doing on the Web, forced Facebook to back down.
In [...]