Month April 2009

Swine flu outbreak hits U.S.

A new swine flu with “pandemic potential” is spreading in Mexico, and has reportedly also been sickening those in the United States. It bears re-posting: There’s not much you can do about a influenza pandemic except “be prepared.” It is…

Smart mobs and Twitter

From the Smart Mobs blog, on the WSJ article about Twitter. It seems to me that Howard’s [Rheingold’s] original insight which he called “smart mobs” is proving to be a fundamental phenomenon of the 21st century. Twittering does the smart…

The Twitter Book

Tech publisher Tim O’Reilly and Sarah Milstein have just published The Twitter Book, a 240 pg. detailing how best to use Twitter. You can get a PDF or print copy for just $15.99

It’s Bank Failure Friday again!

Four banks were pronounced DOA today by FDIC. This includes the pompously yet erroneously named First Bank of Beverly Hills of Calabasas, California which was so terminal that no other bank even wanted what road kill was left of their…