"We have no way of knowing when hiring will pick up; we don't have models for what is happening now."

Who taught companies to act like this?

Investors, that's who.

Do you invest?

Father: "Who taught you how to do this stuff?"
Son: "You, alright! I learned it by watching you!"

New Patterns Restrict Hiring

What are the threats and what is the matrix of possible responses?
How should Europe and the United States cooperate?
How should the public and the private sector work together?

Cyber Security in an Era of Technological Change

It concludes with a series of observations and recommendations for policy action and further research.

Evolution Scenarios for Future Networking Technologies and Networks

Elonka wrote:
] If people are going to blame Bush for everything that goes
] wrong, then I believe that they should also give him credit
] for some of the things that go *right*. And say what you
] will, we haven't had another 9/11 while on his watch.

Homer: Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm.
Lisa: That's specious reasoning, Dad.
Homer: Thank you, dear.
Lisa: By your logic I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away.
Homer: Oh, how does it work?
Lisa: It doesn't work.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: It's just a stupid rock.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: But I don't see any tigers around, do you?
[Homer thinks of this, then pulls out some money]
Homer: Lisa, I want to buy your rock.

Sigh ... so many levels ...

Furor over Bush's 9/11 ad

] When they plotted the links and topics shared by various
] sites, they discovered that topics would often appear on
] a few relatively unknown blogs days before they appeared
] on more popular sites.
]
] "What we're finding is that the important people on the
] Web are not necessarily the people with the most explicit
] links (back to their sites), but the people who cause
] epidemics in blog networks," said researcher Eytan Adar.
]
] These infectious people can be hard to find because they
] do not always receive attribution for being the first to
] point to an interesting idea or news item.

HP tracking the spread of memes through the blogosphere

Most of all, the bear is a rather crude reminder to viewers: "The Sopranos" is no ordinary television show.

'The Sopranos': Bullies, Bears and Bullets: It's Round 5

Bill Gates appeared for the full hour on the Wednesday, March 3 edition of The Charlie Rose Show. It is well worth watching.

Hopefully, audio will be posted soon to the archives at charlierose.com. As yet, they are just selling the videotape, but most shows are available in streaming audio after a few days' delay.

It's a wide-ranging conversation about Microsoft, the Gates foundation, developments in biotechnology and other applied fields, and more.

While you're there, you may also be interested in a February 27 interview with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili.

I wonder: when they write the history of the world 20 years from now, and they come to this chapter -- Sept. 11, 2001, to March 2004 -- what will they say was most important?

Small and Smaller

Joe Trippi, the man whose ground-breaking use of Internet-based campaigning propelled Howard Dean from obscurity to early front-runner, takes Teach-In participants inside the campaign's unconventional experiment in Internet politics, and looks at both victories and lessons learned. The other candidates are rushing to emulate Trippi's Internet strategy -- as Wired News declared, "Internet politics is dead. Long live Internet politics."

Joe Trippi on Digital Democracy

Ralph: When I grow up, I'm going to go to Bovine University.

Swallow That Tripe