These are my links for March 6th 2009 through March 13th 2009:
- Bad News From America’s Top Spy – Truthdig – We have a remarkable ability to create our own monsters. A few decades of meddling in the Middle East with our Israeli doppelgänger and we get Hezbollah, Hamas, al-Qaida, the Iraqi resistance movement and a resurgent Taliban. Now we trash the world economy and destroy the ecosystem and sit back to watch our handiwork. Hints of our brave new world seeped out Thursday when Washington’s new director of national intelligence, retired Adm. Dennis Blair, testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee. He warned that the deepening economic crisis posed perhaps our gravest threat to stability and national security. It could trigger, he said, a return to the “violent extremism” of the 1920s and 1930s.
- The Color of China – The National Interest – China’s meteoric economic rise has created its share of admirers and its share of detractors, not to mention an equal measure of fear that Beijing may either succeed or fail. Can China harness the strengths of its economy for the good or will its deep societal ills rise to the surface? Pei argues that the effects of severe environmental degradation, an unruly populace and a diseased infrastructure cannot be underestimated. Anderson believes China’s GDP juggernaut will continue going strong. It may even break world records.
- Screen Recycler – Mac software that allows you to use old computers as extra monitors. – Use your other computer as additional display for your Mac. Recycle your old iMac, Powerbook or even Windows PC.
- The POST Method: A systematic approach to social strategy – A good post on a simple strategy for companies wanting to enter the "social" world of blogs, twitter, Facebook etc
- Sun CTO: Recession Fueling Interest in Cloud Computing, Virtualization – The global recession is forcing enterprises to look at such technologies as cloud computing, virtualization and green IT to find ways to cut costs and increase efficiencies in their data centers, according to Sun CTO Greg Papadopoulos.It's now up to vendors like Sun and groups like AFCOM to give data center administrators the information they need on cloud computing to make the right decisions. As the recession deepens, demand for cloud computing and other technologies will continue to grow.
