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Jeff Jarvis, an early champion of vlogging and founder of BuzzMachine.com a blog that deals with politics and the media, sees great potential in the phenomenon. "Vlogs are a weird, new kind of way that people can document their lives," says Jarvis. "It has the potential to be the farm team for new talent used by big, mainstream media. Suddenly anybody can become an Andy Rooney." Or better yet, an Edward R. Murrow...
...Thailand's one truly multinational corporation--says he has found time to meditate on the possibilities of voluntary idleness (he's worth about $1.3 billion, according to Forbes). Maybe he would unmoor his yacht and sail off into the South China Sea. Or maybe he'd head to his farm and tend to his prized fighting cocks. Maybe. It's just that things keep cropping up at work, he explains...
...Kamprad created Ikea with a cash gift from his father. The name was derived from his initials plus the first letters of the farm and village where he grew up (Elmtaryd, Agunnaryd). The idea was--and still is--to create and sell innovative design at a great price. Initially he sold such items as pens, picture frames and nylon stockings. But he was interested in the work of mid-century furniture designers like Charles Eames, Arne Jacobsen and Russel Wright. Eventually Kamprad turned his focus to mail-order catalogs and stores that could sell his wares on a mass scale...
...anything Bush was defiant. He clung to the claim that weapons of mass destruction might be found in Iraq. ?They could still be there like the 50 tons of mustard gas hidden on a turkey farm,? he said, referring to recent findings that Libya stored the lethal chemical before it renounced such weapons. He wished he?d created a Department of Homeland Security, but failed to mention that he had opposed it. Echoing what his advisers had said, he noted that he would have ?moved heaven and earth? had he known 9/11 was coming. Once again, the president portrayed...
...Ranch. When he's there, he likes to reminisce about his late wife Lili, whose grave lies on a hilltop under a tree starkly visible against the horizon from the kitchen window. Yet even the secluded ranch can be a reminder of his political troubles. He lives on the farm with Gilad, who is also embroiled in other corruption allegations, some of which concern mortgages and loans tied to the farm...