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This is not the time to get incremental. It’s the time to get fundamental. Reform the incentives. Make consumers accountable for spending. Make price information transparent. Reward health care, not health services.

A group of experts who care for the terminally ill claim that some patients are being wrongly judged as close to death.

Cisco’s chairman and chief executive is stretching his company in all directions. Can it hold together?

My question is for those that do web development for a similar audience; where do you look for potential clients, RFPs etc?

When you make something you make something else. Find it, package it, and sell it. There’s money to be made everywhere.

In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Raw information will become not just a commodity, it will be a nuisance. In that world, consumers will value scarce, relevant insight over abundant facts.

The marketplace in which most commerce takes place today is not a pre-existing condition of the universe. It's not nature. It's a game, with very particular rules, set in motion by real people with real purposes.

Reading is an act of contemplation, perhaps the only act in which we allow ourselves to merge with the consciousness of another human being. We possess the books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and observations, asking us to make them part of ourselves.

Journalism's problem isn't with supply. It's with demand. We'll need to transform ourselves from passive consumers of media into active users. To accomplish that, we'll have to instill throughout our society principles that add up to critical thinking and honorable behavior.

A simple introduction to using PStore, a built-in key/value store that comes with Ruby.