GM’s vice chairman now has a blog. According to Neville Hobson, this is the first Fortune 100 company to do this. The interesting thing is not how revolutionary this blog is, but how ordinary it feels.
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Provisional Sinn Fein condemns the arms trade
My local Provisional Sinn Fein MEP, Mary-Lou McDonald has called for tighter restrictions on the sale of arms:
‘The EU Code of Conduct must be strengthened immediately, to prevent further abuses of human rights, especially in countries with questionable human rights records. Recent reports have shown that loopholes in the Code of Conduct have allowed weapons to be supplied to regimes such as China, Burma and Malaysia in this last year.’
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Picking up the pieces in Sri Lanka
Joi Ito picked up on my contribution on a mailing list about what is happening there.
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World’s most enduring organizations
Consultants Booz Allen have compiled a list of the world’s most enduring organizations. They seem to have missed the Daddy of them all, the only organization that has maintained the continuity and of its structure and mission over 2000 years.
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Better mobile phone
I spend a lot of time thinking about mobile devices, specifically one that would really be more useful than the basic model I use at the moment. I saw the Nokia 6820 over the weekend, and I have to say, I like the idea.
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Irish Commission on Electronic Voting issues report
The Commission on Electronic Voting (CEV) has reported back. The report is only preliminary and is pretty equivocal.
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Government Body Blogs (almost)
The National Roads Authority (NRA) has dones the next-best thing to blogging at the weekend. It published a full-page ad in all the Sunday papers, to gets its point across about a new road it is planning. Obviously, the NRA doesn’t think it is getting its message across well enough the traditional way.
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Mobile phone services: back where we started
Mobile phone services are bringing us back to the age of the green screen. Who would have thought five years ago that customers would be using a numeric keypad to send text-based commands to order content, check balances and even buy things?
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Rural Post Offices – an opportunity, not a problem
We have a problem with rural post offices in Ireland. They serve an important social purpose, but they lose too much money.
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Have you seen this pier?
Joi Ito links to this rather funny sequence of photos. The location appears to be in Ireland. But can anybody say where exactly?