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...credit bubbles, and there were other asset bubbles, too like Internet stocks...
...think there's any perfect solution, because the essence of a free-market economy is that people are allowed to make mistakes. And some of these bubbles have a good side. The Internet bubble of the 1990s brought us Amazon and eBay. They're still with us. Stabilizing the economy isn't the final goal. Having a little bit of turmoil, as long as it doesn't get out of hand, is part of creative destruction. You have a history of highlighting parts of the economy that have gotten out of hand before other people are paying attention. What...
Veratect's tracking method includes analyzing Internet data (blogs and other sources), maintaining on-the-ground contact with health officials, text-mining news reports and government resources for keywords related to infectious-disease outbreaks and using satellite images of weather patterns to detect and predict the progress of global events like disease and civil unrest. Veratect sources first picked up reports of human respiratory disease at a pig farm in Mexico on April 6; additional reports of a similar illness surfaced on April 16, which is when the company got concerned enough to e-mail officials...
...heir to Britain's throne is not insensible to the power of technology. A campaign to save the rain forests launched by the Prince on Tuesday is based on a 90-sec. film that he hopes will go "viral" and relies on state-of-the-art software and Internet strategy honed during Barack Obama's presidential campaign...
...create pressure for action ahead of July's G-8 summit in Italy and December's U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, much as antipoverty campaigners like Bono harnessed the power of public opinion to push an Africa agenda at the 2005 G-8 summit. Blue State Digital, the Internet consultancy behind the hugely successful Web component of Obama's election campaign, is providing know-how and software to maximize the impact of the rain-forest campaign and mobilize supporters. The key, says Thomas Gensemer, managing partner of Blue State Digital, is to make everything so user-friendly that...