More on Structural Changes. Tim Oren, a VC, in California: Eating the Valley's seed corn, describes some of the structural changes in engineering staffing.

For the startups that I deal with, the idea of having a chunk of the engineering overseas is already routine. If we see a plan with engineering in India, China or … [Onto Something Good]

academic job hunting is like hunting season for turkeys, only you are given a blindfold, a slingshot, and a turkey call, you can guess the outcome.

The new cartography. Social borders have their own sort of cartographies.- David Harvey, Justice, Nature & the Geography of Distance, 1996, p. 282…. [Blog de Halavais]

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I think this is somewhat the same idea as Georg Simmel had in his book on metropolitan life. It is a classic insight and one that I've found very useful in many discussions.

Latest news on World Summit on the Information Society.

The latest E-Flash relating to the upcoming World Summit on the Information Society (organized by the ITU) is available with links to WSIS documents for the upcoming Third Meeting of the Preparatory Committee for WSIS (PrepCom3), Geneva 15 – 26 September 2003. This meeting will attempt to finalize the working documents for the Summit which includes the draft Declaration of Principles and the revised Action Plan. 

The inventor of the worldwide web, Tim Berners-Lee, will participate in The Role of Science in the Information Society conference which will be held in conjunction with WSIS on 8-9 December.

[ITU Strategy and Policy Unit Newslog]