Author Archives: David Collin

Good article on Gates and other big philanthropists of history

Now everybody’s speculating about what Gates will do with all that money. Here‘s a little look back at some other biggies of the past.

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Maybe the market does work

An article from the NYTimes suggestes that physicians are managing to find time to be with patients–when the threat of losing customers is strong enough. Interesting quotes: …doctors know that as walk-in medical offices and retail-store clinics pose new competition, and as shrinking insurance benefits mean patients are paying more of their own bills, family care medicine is more than ...

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Them that has, gets

Geez! No wonder Bill Gates is semi-retiring from Microsoft to manage his foundation. Now it turns out that Warren Buffett is turning over $30.71 billion (that’s right, billion!) to Big Bill to manage. This will make the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation the biggest philanthropy of all time.  And with all that moola comes a lot of power. Absolutely anybody ...

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Flickr – Photo Sharing and a lot more!

This week's podcast is about Flickr. Flickr is my favorite Online Photo Sharing tool and one of the best examples of the highly hyped Web 2.0 or Living Web technology. Flickr makes it easy for your volunteers and staff to share and post photos and leave comments on those photos. You can even subscribe to photo streams using RSS. But ...

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