Philanthropy Journal – newsarticle Boy, this guy, Todd Cohen, is out to be the gadfly of the charity industry. He’s really taking charities and foundations to task for being risk aversive and uncreatinve. I like this guy! …running a business (charity) can be tough in a mean marketplace in which donors, funders and charity support groups are mired in pet ...
Read More »Should FI Center "Google" best ideas?
Google, a company that doesn’t let grass grow under its feet, keeps an internal list of “top 100 ideas” generated by its staff. The top execs at Google track the list. Google’s co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, addressing a technology conference in Monterey, California, on Saturday, said they encourage their employees to pursue their own ideas and projects. The ...
Read More »Information-based medicine a la IBM
When you think about major healthcare system players does the name IBM come to mind? Probably not, but maybe it should at least as we move into the future. Four years ago Big Blue opened a department on life science to develop the growing market for high-power computing in research. Now they’ve consolidated it with their medical care branch, and, ...
Read More »This site is an interesting blog posting about the new site LA.confidential. It is a blog hosted by the news conglomerate that holds USA TODAY and a handful of other new outlets such as TV stations etc. One concern point in the article is that by design blogs are counter government, corporation, or any other type of centralized control. The ...
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