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The Weekly Oil & Gas Follies

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The Weekly Oil and Gas Follies – Volume 27, January 6, 2014   In which we drill down into the @GDBlackmon Twitter feed to briefly chronicle the week’s silliness, foibles, fake news and real news...
    






Tesla And Adobe: Why Continuous Deployment May Mean Continuous Customer Disappointment

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For the last 75 years products (both durable goods and software) were built via Waterfall development. This process forced companies to release and launch products by model years, and market new and...
    






What Obama’s Mandela Funeral Selfie Tells Us About The Web In 2014

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As Nelson Mandela’s funeral became the kind of geopolitical media circus cynics expected it would, Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, British Prime Minister David Cameron and US President...
    






New York Times Attacks Expert Who Opposes `Speculation’ Lawsuits

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The New York Times had an expose Friday about academics who — stop the presses! — supplement their university salaries by doing consulting work on the side. The problems with this story by reporter...
    






Inside the real Dragons’ Den

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“Over good wine we came up with the idea of putting ourselves in the middle of people with money and people who need it. We thought of making Dragon’s Den online, it was amazingly flawed.” This was...
    






14 Pointed Predictions For 2014

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After recapping the hits and misses and misses of last year’s predictions (I did well on oil, less well on Apple; scored on the movies, struck out in sports), it’s time to look ahead to 2014. The...
    






Apple Fined $670,000 In Taiwan For Price Fixing

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Another one of these little stories that show the difficulty that multinationals have around te world. What might be considered entirely respectable behaviour in one market can end up being illegal...
    






Don’t Be Fooled By Kathleen Sebelius’s Healthcare.gov ‘Progress’ Report

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This month, Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius trudged up to Capitol Hill for her second public grilling over the flaws with the Obamacare healthcare exchanges. Sebelius was insistent that HealthCare...