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August 11th, 2010

The Wall Street Journal Supports Bigotry

from thad@thefutureofpublishing.com <thad@thefutureofpublishing.com> to onlinejournal@wsj.com, wsj.ltrs@wsj.com, d.bernard@wsj.com, k.sells@wsj.com, a.murray@wsj.com, MainStreet@wsj.com, julia.angwin@wsj.com date Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 2:48 PM subject Cancel subscription immediately To Editors and Managements of The Wall Street Journal, I have valued your paper for decades, and faithfully subscribed online for perhaps ten years. It was always expensive but I did not…

July 8th, 2010

U.S. Plans Cybershield for Utilities & Companies

The Wall Street Journal broke the story today, starting off with “The federal government is launching an expansive program dubbed ‘Perfect Citizen’ to detect cyber assaults on private companies and government agencies running such critical infrastructure as the electricity grid and nuclear-power plants, according to people familiar with the program.” Perfect Citizen! Don’t you just…

March 10th, 2010

Are You Futured Out?

A blog entry on Richard Curtis’ very good E-Reads site struck a strong chord with me today. Curtis writes: Until now, most folks returning from the annual (O’Reilly’s) Tools of Change conference have come away inspired and energized as the flint of old thinking met the steel of innovation. But this time publishing industry blogger…