For months I’ve been wanting to write about what entrepreneurs can learn from terrorists. The whole idea of attacking the weak point in large systems, taking advantage of common technologies and having a completely flat organization. But after Mumbia I don’t think I will. Beyonce’s...

Good morning, folks. I’m getting the week started with a few choice reads for the day: Ordering Pizza Hut From Your Facebook Page? It’s on the Way A number of fast-food chains are reaching across the digital divide to get young consumers to order via Facebook or their iPhones. And they&#...

 (photo by Melinda Kolk) So here we all are, ready for the Cup tomorrow and then Wednesday will be the US elections and the whole world will be watching. There is a lot riding on this and we have been following this right from the start. We are so much more clued up than we used to be and we ar...

Too tired to really post much more tonight - yet this article in the New York Times on The Facebooker Who Friended Obama is worth a read- I also posted on it briefly at  The Analytics Guru - Secret to Obama’s success - Facebook? . Mr. Hughes, 24, was one of four founders of Facebook....

Who knew Wright Could be so entertaining even as he is so wrong? Here are some excerpts from Wright's recent comments: From his appearance Monday at the National Press Club in Washington: "I stand before you to open up this two-day symposium with the hope that this most recent attack on the black ch...

CHAPTER III Here he goes again. Barack Obama, after being beat up by numerous factcheckers for grossly misrepresenting Senator McCain's "100 Years" comment, finally dropped that distortion from his stump speech. Obama stopped using that line because it became obvious to all, even the admittedly Obam...

By now you must have heard about Obama's Liberal/Progressive elitist put down of small town America. At a San Francisco fundraiser last Sunday, Obama revealed jut how removed he is from those who inhabit flyover country:You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small t...

An adviser to Senator Obama’s campaign recommends that we keep 60,000 - 80,000 troops in Iraq through 2010. Colin Kahl, the day-to-day coordinator of the Obama campaign’s working group on Iraq, makes the recommendation in a paper written for the center-left Center for a New American Security -- ...

Simon Hoggart writes, that if it wasn't for the color of his skin, opponents might say Obama is the latest in a long line of Democratic nerds -- policy wonks such as Dukakis and Gore, long on earnest proposals, short on personal appeal:That changes when he opens his mouth. In the past, most black Am...

UPDATED, Again and bumped: Today on MSNBC's "Hardball," Barack Obama continued his prevarications:John McCain got upset today apparently because I had repeated exactly what he said, which is that we might be there [Iraq] for 100 years if he had his way.That is not "exactly" what McCain said as you c...