The Idea Blog

Square is almost here

Posted by Mark on Tuesday, May 11th, 2010. Filed under Digital lifestyle, Economy, Fresh Ideas.

I've written about Square before on the Idea Blog. (Here and here.) But something in this new ...

Posted by Mark on Sunday, February 21st, 2010. Filed under Economy, Education, Environment, Politics.

"Our parents truly were the Greatest Generation. We, alas, in too many ways, have been what the writer Kurt Andersen ...

Posted by Mark on Thursday, December 17th, 2009. Filed under Digital lifestyle, Economy.

Great and informative story on NPR, including Broyhill, Caldwell County and Google. Give this series a listen. The first profiles displaced ...

Posted by Mark on Sunday, December 13th, 2009. Filed under Advertising, Burris, Economy, Fresh Ideas, Managing.

More imagination, fewer resources and assets. That's the way of doing business now. Thomas Friedman's column - ...

Posted by Mark on Saturday, November 21st, 2009. Filed under Economy.

From Bob Herbert's column in this morning's Times: "We need a revitalized industrial policy, ...