Politics archives
Federal Budget 2010
On a new site designed as part of the transition into office, president-elect Barack Obama asks for some ideas, effectively trying to use the internet created a government run "for the people, by the people, and of the people." Here are some I had around the budget...
Tags: Electricity, Energy, Finance
Culture Crash
Welcome to TNL.net. If you like this content, you may consider subscribing to the RSS feed.As the financial landscape is being reshaped in one of the largest crisis of confidence ever encountered by the American form of capitalism, I cannot help but wonder whether what we are witnessing is the beginning not just of an [...]
Tags: Bank, United States, Wall Street
Paying for the bailout
With a $700 billion bailout planned by the government, I go looking for sources where we can find the money to pay for this.
Tags: Idea, Iraq, Politics, United States
Coins to QQ at Web 2.0
From barter to grain to metal and paper, and eventually to electronic money, currency has a long history. In this talk, presented at the Web 2.0 Expo conference, I give a quick summary of that history and present how more recent trends could highlight some hypothetical futures for currency.
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The memory fades, the pain levels: 7 years ago today a lot of us lost our innocence. 7 years ago today, it seems both like a lifetime away and an instant. But today, I can say that I got past most of the funk. Sure, I still look up in the sky when a plane flies [...]
Tags: 9/11, United States, WTC
American Me
Yesterday morning, I entered a room filled with foreigners. By the time I left, there were 240 new American citizens, myself included. My journey to this moment is one that, in retrospect, would pretty much a given. Since 1992, I’ve been involved on the outer periphery of presidential elections. In the mid-1990s, for a brief period, [...]
Tags: Iraq, United States
