Tony K’s got something to say

Today’s NYT editorial, How Not to Cure an Addiction asks an interesting question about President George W. Bush’s effort to deal with our addiction to oil. What is the plan?
Mr. Bush has pledged to fight off price gouging and lower prices at the pump, which means people will keep consuming at high rates. There […]

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Today’s WaPo article, Obstacles to Generic Drugs Criticized, notes that large prescription drug companies are fighting to have their patents extended in order to prevent generic forms of their drugs from hitting the market.

The brand-name drug industry is aggressively working to keep blockbuster drugs widely used by the elderly from being sold in […]

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The MSM is writing more and more about the growing costs of energy (a little hard to ignore) and the increasing interest in alternative sustainable energy sources, green technology. Today’s WaPo reports on the interest of tech entrepreneurs in green technologies.

Bill Gates, John Doerr and Steve Case believed in the Internet long before Wall […]

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In the news everywhere are the calls from former US Generals to send Se. of Defense Donald Rumsfeld packin’. The answer from the White House (from WaPo)…
“The president believes Secretary Rumsfeld is doing a very fine job during a challenging period in our nation’s history,” White House press secretary Scott McClellan said at a […]

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Today’s WaPo article Sprint Users Can Track Children Via GPS highlights Sprint/Nextel’s latest offering, real-time on-line tracking of up to four cell phones through GPS, so you can now know where your kids are hanging out.
Using the Global Positioning System, the service allows parents to track up to four cell phones over the Internet or […]

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Democracy in Action has a nice summary of the Goodmail (e-mail certification) conference session from the N-Ten Seattle non-profit tech conference (watch the video).

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BlogBurst, (your blog posts injected into the MSM) from yesterday’s ZDNet
Pluck initially has signed up Gannett Co., Washington Post Co., San Francisco Chronicle, Austin American-Statesman and San Antonio Express. Eventually, the Austin, Texas-based company will offer BlogBurst editorial materials to niche business and overseas publications.
Newspapers are looking to BlogBurst to provide expert blog commentary […]

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