MP3 audio files & transcripts (how 21st century!) of this excellent series:
- Technology will determine the future of the human race
- Collaboration
- Innovation & Management
- Nanotechnology & Nanoscience
- Risk & Responsibility
Colorado Municipal WiFi
The DenverChannel writes that the Colorado senate is voting on a bill that would support local municipal wifi…. (still no wifi at the Madison airport…)
The Death of the Music CD
Mark Cuban on the death of the music cd.
Election Results
The Dane County Clerk’s website includes election results from races around the county. Wispolitics has statewide results here.
Vint Cerf on the Internet’s next step
“My initial job was getting IP on everything,” Cerf said. That’s been done by now. IP is on every device from the smallest handheld to the largest supercomputer.
“Now we need IP under everything,” he added. By this he meant that now that the computers are all connected, we need to make sure that every device can use and access any service or product available to any one device.
Cartago, Costa Rica VR Scene
John Riley posted a very nice Quicktime VR Scene from Cartago, Costa Rica.
Feingold Funding Political Travels with a Leadership PAC
U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, whose name has become synonymous with campaign finance reform, is raising both his profile and thousands of dollars with his new leadership political action committee.
Feingold, D-Wis., is using the PAC to fund political travel, like his high-profile trip to Alabama last week, and to make contributions to fellow Democrats as he tries to help the party regain the Senate next year.
Eizenstat to speak at the UW 4.12
Stuart E. Eizenstat, former U.S. ambassador to the European Union, will give a pair of talks on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on Tuesday, April 12.
Eizenstat will discuss his book, “Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor and the Unfinished Business of World War II,” in Room 7200 at the UW Law School at 1:30 p.m.
Then, at 3 p.m., he will speak on “Transatlantic Relations in the Second Bush Term,” at the Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. Eizenstat’s talks, which are free and open to the public, are sponsored by the UW-Madison’s European Union Center, in collaboration with the Office of the Dean of International Studies.
IT Outsourcing Sprouts Up in Rural America
Aelera Corp. CEO Dustin Crane traveled to China, India and Armenia in a quest to buy or start up an offshore IT services company. After six months of searching, he returned to the U.S. and set up operations in the coastal city of Savannah and the smaller town of Fitzgerald, Ga., population 8,758.
McKesson Corp. CIO Cheryl T. Smith estimates that the $8 billion pharmaceutical distributor is saving $10 million annually in salary costs?a percentage of which is reinvested in IT innovation?after relocating its primary data center and about 75 IT jobs from San Francisco to Dubuque, Iowa.
Two fantastic examples of what’s possible. Unfortunatetly, it seems Wisconsin’s political leaders aren’t interested in laying the groundwork for the true high speed networks necessary for these type of opportunities to land here…..
United Replaces Some Air Wisconsin Routes
These 30 aircraft will fly on some routes previously operated for United by Air Wisconsin Airlines. As the company indicated in an announcement to employees late last month, United also is considering reductions in the United Express fleet to further reduce spending on U.S. domestic capacity, given high fuel prices and the current fare levels.
Air Wisconsin is based in Appleton and recently invested in US Airways as part of a deal to redeploy aircraft.