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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...
    






Ex-Romney Digital Director On The Future Of Digital Campaigning

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As the Obama camp celebrated its victory over Mitt Romney last November, the campaign’s digital side received an outsized share of praise. To some, the 2012 election was the birth of a new form of...
    






Eleven Great Space Moments Of 2013

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It was nearly 50 years ago that Star Trek first dubbed space as “the final frontier.” Today, it’s still a frontier, but it’s a busy one. People from dozens of nations, as well as private industry,...
    






Ferocious, Weak And Crazy: The North Korean Strategy

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Editor’s Note: The following Geopolitical Weekly originally ran in January 2013. We repost it as recent turmoil in North Korea returns it to the spotlight. By George Friedman North Korea’s state-run...
    






Cloud Goes Construction – Real World Examples And The Aconex Value Prop

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Every now and then I come across an interesting company that is trying to transform the way a traditional industry works through the use of technology. In the IT industry we’re told on a daily basis...
    






How Phil Robertson’s PR Team Let Him Down

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In all the flurry of news about Duck Dynasty’s current PR debacle I learned an important piece of information from a most unlikely source: TMZ. In one of a plethora of posts about the fallout to...
    






The Best Angling Writing Of 2013

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Sometime in the early 1990s, when I was still a wee lad—a fly fishing-addicted wee lad, mind you—I started to devour stories about fishing. I happened to do so at exactly the right time. Those were...
    






Beyonce Brings Prog-Pop To The Masses

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When media outlets scrambled to contextualize Beyonce’s surprise album release, several publications (Hollywood Reporter and Billboard.com are a two of them) were quick to mention the antics of...
    






Top Gun Inspiration Christine Fox is Now Highest Ranking Female

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There is reel life and then there is real life. The Obama administration recently took on board a brilliant lady by the name of Christine Fox who works for the Defense Department. She was the...