Wirearchy

I am traveling for the next two weeks .. visiting friends, having a few meetings and attending at least one conference (LeWeb 3 in Paris).
I’m currently in my favourite North American city, Montreal and will be here for the weekend.

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The whole Joe-Klein-reporting-on-the-pending-FISA-bill fiasco is getting hilarious, troubling or absurd (your pick).
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Collectively, Klein’s postings paint a deceiving caricature of people who are concerned about letting the government turn the nation’s telecommunication systems into giant microphones — something that was explicitly rejected in the wiretapping compromises that followed the excesses of Nixon, the CIA and J. [...]

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AFR stands for Australian Financial Review, evidently Australia’s answer to the Financial Times, and BOSS (how quaint !) is the title of their magazine about leadership.
This interview (below) took place by email, and is a bit "cheerful", if you will.

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Via A Tiny Revolution
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Vengeance Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning
It’s always struck me as odd that a country so passionate about freedom be so quick to deny it to so many of its own citizens.
When you read the numbers below, keep two facts in mind: (1) only 15 percent of arrests involve serious property [...]

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I respect and enjoy these guys, no doubt more than they do me.

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.. and, as Ryan Singel notes in yesterday’s Wired Magazine Blog article titled "Time’s Columnist Joe Klein Butchers Wiretapping Debate"
1) it is quite hard to understand how Joe Klein was not relieved of his duties based on his dishonest representations re: Primary Colors
2) beyond that, his lack of knowledge now is "beyond stupid.

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.. with this statement lifted from the recent Globe and Mail review of Gary Hamel’s book The Future of Management.
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The End of Management As We Know It ?
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We also must learn from the Internet’s example of widespread, leaderless collaborative effort. "The Web has evolved faster than anything human beings have created - [...]

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I stumbled across an interesting piece from a veteran  journalist by the name of Gene Lyons (National Nagazine Award winner in 1980 and author of the book "The Hunting of the President").
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Blogosphere not as radical as pundits thinkGene LyonsNovember 21, 2007
It’s no exaggeration to say that the establishment media’s initial response to the blogosphere was [...]

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This (below) on the heels of tasering resulting in the death of a bewildered innocent man in the Vancouver airport.
My oh my …

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… and I agree.
Here outlined below is a piece I wrote in March 2005 that arguably could be a an early draft of a primer for addressing that call to action.
Comments welcome.
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1. Customers, employees and other stakeholders are all interconnected, and have access to most, if not all the information that everyone else has
This [...]

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