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Content matters. And you must find a way, in the brave new world of digitization, to make people pay for that content. If you do this, you still have a product and there is still an industry, a calling, and a career known as professional journalism.

Everyone who thinks online subscription fees can save the newspaper industry is effectively arguing that the world will change to support newspapers. The truth is that newspapers must change to adapt to the world.

In order to succeed at one of these leapfrog projects, you have to focus on the core business strategy. We have been lucky enough to work with customers who understood this to the bone: first, do no harm to your existing users. Next, quickly eliminate needless costs. Then, and only then, start dipping into that well of pent-up feature demand. Without a deep commitment to this set of values, such a project is likely to suffer from cost overruns, angry users, and lost revenue. In other words, the 75% scenario for corporate IT investments.

The path to many good jobs and others is community college. You spend a couple of years getting a certificate or an Associate in Arts degree. It's not expensive and loans are not hard to get. A call to action and a new way of thinking for black America.

In his first interview since the world financial crisis, Gao Xiqing, the man who oversees $200 billion of China’s $2 trillion in dollar holdings, explains why he’s betting against the dollar, praises American pragmatism, and wonders about enormous Wall Street paychecks. And he has a friendly piece of advice.

The World Wide Web would serve well as a framework for structuring much of the academic Computer Science curriculum. A study of the theory and practice of the Web’s technologies would traverse many key areas of our discipline.

These tragedies [of violence] can be averted by a state with a monopoly on violence. States can inflict disinterested penalties that eliminate the incentives for aggression, thereby defusing anxieties about preemptive attack and obviating the need to maintain a hair-trigger propensity for retaliation.

Basic functionality, like calling people, email, and certainly document editing still feel inelegant and clunky due to the onscreen keyboard, and the lack of multitasking makes moving around through those typically important tasks difficult to say the least. At the end of the day, it's nice to stick the "we love business users" line into your PR, but it's quite another thing to make it real.