Mobile Collaborative Writing app (more)

Ross Mayfield coins "Social Productivity" as a Collaboration Ware segment. It’s a combination of Personal Productivity and Collaboration that empowers people... Is as simple, instant and social as messaging. So everyone can use and spread it. A lightweight, fast and easy way to get things done. Letting you work in Real Time with others. Ridiculously easy to form groups (Group Forming), and unlike a CC line, bordering on fun... I believe there will be a social productivity app on every consumer’s phone, and what emerges with groups of people will make the world more productive. At Pingpad, we are quietly making that social productivity app. (more)

How much Security/Privacy do you get for your Messaging? (more)

Hitchens vs Hitchens (Christopher Hitchens vs Peter). Christopher says, "I don't regard Islam as the enemy, I regard Religion as the enemy" - but Peter reckons a big problem with the West's war on Terrorism is precisely its lack of a strong religious-based ideology capable of challenging the beliefs of the Taliban... Christopher also has a problem with "terrorism" - the word, that is, not the phenomenon. Peter might relish in his "firm, consistent" opposition to terrorism "in all its guises", but Christopher sometimes can't bring himself even to write the word down - describing the "use and abuse of the word terrorism" as traditionally "a way of criminalising the left and revolution"... Then there's the problem that Christopher doesn't think that everything lumped under the term terrorism is always such a bad thing: "I am so strongly of the opinion that we should have forced a Palestinian state 20 years ago and that many of those who fight for such a state are right... he says that one of the big problems with describing the Taliban and AlQaeda as "terrorists" is that it doesn't go far enough - the word just doesn't capture what he calls "the true horror of that regime". "To call this terrorism is actually to understate it, bizarrely enough. Terrorism used to be an overstatement, used to write off certain groups. Now it's an understatement for what I would call an Islamic version of fascism."... The problem for Peter is that imperialism just ain't what it used to be. "I'm an imperialist", he says, unapologetically. "I think the imperial era, when Western European powers, and to some extent America, seized territory and governed it, was an enlightened period which did a great deal more good than harm. But I think that playing around with countries, intervening in them, setting up temporary Heath Robinson regimes which then allow you to depart and permit a decent interval before they collapse, is dishonest, cheap and shallow - and I'd rather not intervene at all."

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Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 1757 – July 12, 1804) was an American statesman and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was an influential interpreter and promoter of the U.S. Constitution, as well as the founder of the nation's financial system, the Federalist Party, the United States Coast Guard, and The New York Post newspaper. As the first Secretary of the Treasury, Hamilton was the main author of the economic policies of the George Washington administration. He took the lead in the funding of the states' debts by the Federal government, as well as the establishment of a national bank, a system of tariffs, and friendly trade relations with Britain. His vision included a strong central government led by a vigorous executive branch,[3]:3–4 a strong commercial economy, with a national bank and support for manufacturing, plus a strong military. This was challenged by Virginia agrarians Thomas Jefferson and James Madison who formed a rival party. They favored strong states based in rural America and protected by state militias as opposed to a strong national army and navy. They denounced Hamilton as too friendly toward Britain and toward monarchy in general, and too oriented toward cities, business and banking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton

Foreign Policy writer; member Council On Foreign Relations (more)

(Foreign Policy) inspired by Alexander Hamilton (more)

Aram Zucker-Scharff says: The Media is a business and Journalism is a job: Get it together. (more)

Martin Cagan: Product Managervs. Product Owner Revisited | Silicon Valley Product Group (more)

Tiago Forte on ReadItLater apps. (more)

Tiago Forte on how to use EverNote for your Creative Workflow in line with known neuroscience principles. (more)

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Wiki Page names are two or more CapitalizedWords (Camel Case) joined together without spaces (Smashed Together Words). (more)

When you have Smashed Together Words, the capitals in the middle make humps like a camel.

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Ryan Holiday: We Don’t Have a Fake News Problem—We Are the Fake News Problem (more)

Universal plans to bring Wattpad stories to TV (more)

John Cutler o Success Theater. You just know what it means. It’s hearing you hit the quarterly goal, but knowing the corners you had to cut (and the people who will have to clean up the mess), listening to someone rattle off vanity metrics that say nothing, but claim everything, or being told you’re not a team player for having some doubts about a recent “win”. (Reality Distortion Field) (more)