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Mon, 19 May 2008- ~Western MBA programs in China
- Here’s an interesting article about the business challenges facing Western business schools trying to make money in China.
- ~Pro-China, pro-America–a video from Fox News
- Here’s an informative interview about the recent events in Tibet and what’s really going on in terms of China’s international relationships, set in what first seemed an odd venue. The Fox News show is called “Happy Hour” and is set in a bar–yes, with shelves of bright whiskey and gin bottles glittering behind the speakers. [...]
- ~First press mention of Berkshire’s China Gold, in connection with the Olympic torch relay
- Talk about mixed metaphor. Here’s the title of an article in yesterday’s Baltimore Sun, quoting Duncan Mackay extensively, and me briefly: “Torch as lightning rod, Olympic attention is magnet for protests.”
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Wed, 02 Jul 2008- ~Green Data Centres Conference at the Bloomsbury Holiday Inn
- I’ve got one more day of conferencing, Day 2 of the Green Data Centres Conference at the Bloomsbury Holiday Inn. I’m the “chair” of this particular event, which means that I sit in a comfortable armchair on the side of the platform, listening to the speakers at close quarters. It’s the most technical conference [...]
- ~Off to London
- I love marathon trips but this is a little much: three conferences, three different subjects/communities, in six days. And of course I have to pack in a few other things in London. No, not shopping–that’s not my thing. But there are friends to see, newspapers to read, and old paths to wander. Here’s what I [...]
- ~Technology companies face the music
- I am a passionate proponent of new technologies but one reason I’ve published a lot on technology (the entire Berkshire Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction as well as articles in virtually every other encyclopedia–whether they were on sports or religion or history) is I believe we should not accept any technology without question. We need to [...]
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