New York Times

Facebook's 100K person problem and network power

February 19, 2009 General

The last few days, Facebook has been at the centre of a firestorm over changes it made to its terms of service. Broadly speaking, when you sign up to Facebook, you grant it a license to use your material for the purpose of its business model. For most people that’s not an unreasonable exchange for [...]

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What can you trust?

September 29, 2008 General

While I have been fairly strident about the problems attached to the US financial markets and in particular the role of the audit crews, it turns out that one of the main problems was much simpler. According to the New York Times: The people who ran the financial firms chose to program their risk-management systems [...]

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The irony of the financial crisis

September 19, 2008 General

The BEST ad ever from AIG to avoid disastersTwo stories, one reflected up on by Jeff Nolan and another extracted by Richard Murphy made me think about the irony of what’s going on in the US right now and which may yet wash over to Europe. The first story from the NY Times lucidly explains [...]

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Excessive internal linking is narcissistic

August 19, 2008 General

One of the problems I see with professionals is the extent to which they navel gaze in the deluded belief they are the fount of all accounting wisdom. It simply isn’t true. There’s always someone smarter than you and they probably work somewhere else. So it was with some sadness that I read Tim O’Reilly‘s [...]

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