AP - The family of slain abortion provider George Tiller said Tuesday that his Wichita clinic will be "permanently closed," effective immediately. more
Tue Jun 09 11:50pm WST
AP - President Barack Obama is calling for Congress to pay for new increases to federal benefit programs such as health care by raising taxes or coming up with budget cuts — a "pay-as-you-go" system that would have the force of law. more
Tue Jun 09 11:49pm WST
AFP - The world is getting "very close" to a swine flu pandemic, a senior World Health Organisation official said Tuesday, noting that there is now community-level transmission in Australia. more
Tue Jun 09 11:37pm WST
I enjoyed Matthew Stewart s polemic against management education in The Atlantic. He recounts his success in management based on a mixture of philosphy and... winging it. After I left the consulting business, in a reversal of the usual order of things, I decided to check out the management litera more
Mon Jun 01 08:31pm WST
Earl has a nice riff on Euan s post about the real value in networks being the people and not the technology. Euan puts a better suit on something I ve been saying since I found out what end-to-end meant. That the ends in question are not devices but their users He goes on: The problem for many net more
Mon Jun 01 06:15pm WST
I know I ve posted this video before, but I ve been thinking of it a lot lately. Watching our MPs in the wake of the expenses scandal has been like watching a minor version of Ceausescu moments. The trackback link for this entry is: http://www.johnniemoore.com/mt/minotaur.cgi/2155.obfuscator( more
Thu May 21 06:09am WST
(The Real Deal) Could The Economist have been any clearer in its opinion of the Iraq Study Group Report? (Lead story here .) In an unorthodox move, the magazine even converted its cover into an unabashed editorial. The publication might have had an allergic reaction to the ISG, but the larger more
by Chris Maynard In the 2006 World Press Photo competition for best news photographs of 2005, Todd Heisler of the Rocky Mountain News won first place for People In The News: Stories with his essay Final Salute , about a group of Marines who deal with the families of Colorado Marines killed in a more
(In reviewing the year just past, this post is the second in a series in which Chris Maynard and I analyze some of the winners of the 2006 World Press Photo contest.) (click for full size) Over the couple years The BAG and The BAG Community have been looking at pictures together, I ve held more