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		<title>CU Ranks at top of Sustainable Campus list</title>
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The Daily Camera reports the University of Colorado&#8217;s Boulder campus has received another green designation. The Sustainable Endowments Institute, a special project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors gave CU the highest grade awarded on its 2010 report card. And for the second year in a row, CU was named an Overall College Sustainability Leader.
CU this fall [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2010/03/cu-ranks-at-top-of-sustainable-campus-list/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;I tried and I made it.&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow! What a powerful story!
William Kamkwamba, a boy in rural city in Malawi, Africa, is forced to drop out of school after the deadly 2001 drought nearly killed him and his family and destroyed the little value they had created farming corn and tobacco.  Without the $80 to pay tuition, William turned to the library, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2010/02/i-tried-and-i-made-it/</link>
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		<title>Brain Functions Improve with Age &#8211; at least some important ones do</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some important Brain Functions Improve with Age according to findings presented in HBR&#8217;s Conversation blog.
 

In areas as diverse as vocabulary and inductive reasoning, our brains function better than they did in our 20s. As we age, we more easily get the &#8220;gist&#8221; of arguments. Even our judgment of others improves. Often, we simply &#8220;know&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2010/02/brain-functions-improve-with-age-at-least-some-important-ones-do/</link>
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		<title>Why Wise Leaders Don&#8217;t Know Too Much</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all seen it where lots of information compiled to make a decision did little to suggest an obvious course.  And that was 20 years ago, when it took leg work to gather that information, not just a few keystrokes in your browser.  Getting stuck in analysis was a problem thousands of years ago and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2010/02/why-wise-leaders-dont-know-too-much-the-conversation-harvard-business-review/</link>
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		<title>Why Colorado Tax Bill HB-1192 is a Bad Idea…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seth Levine has posted Marion Jenkins’ detailed rebuttal to HB 1192.  Mr. Jenkins suggests this tax legislation should be opposed due to a wide range of problems, including it being a new tax which should go before all voters to the complexity in determining when a lump of software code is deemed “standard” and subject [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2010/02/why-hb-1192-is-a-bad-idea/</link>
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		<title>The World&#8217;s Water &#8211; L&#8217;Desh Fresh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some things are worthy of a second look.  Check out this educational advertisement for the water millions walk miles to taste.
L&#8217;DESH FRESH
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		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2010/02/the-worlds-water-ldesh-fesh/</link>
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		<title>Snow Driving Down South</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Growing up in the South, you don’t have a lot of opportunities to test out your winter gittin’ around skills.  And with a big snowstorm about to him my hometown area, here are a few hard learned lessons about moving around in the white stuff.
Cowboy boots and ice don’t mix.
Always wipe the snow off the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2010/02/snow-driving-down-south/</link>
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		<title>Chad Evans Knocks it Out of the Park at the iPad Launch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of us like to name drop, at least a little.&#160; And so it is with great interest that we follow the careers of former colleagues.&#160; Here is Chad Evans, taking one deep at the iPad launch.&#160; Watch him here.
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		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2010/01/chad-evans-knocks-it-out-of-the-park-at-the-ipad-launch/</link>
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		<title>Starbucks Customers React to Caloric Info</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It appears Starbucks customers in New York are able to make intelligent decisions when provided with the information about the calorie content of food on the menu.
A new study by Stanford released Jan. 6 examined consumer behavior before and after calorie counts were posted, and determined that when restaurants post calories on menu boards, there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2010/01/starbucks-customers-react-to-caloric-info/</link>
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		<title>U.S. Bound by Obama\&#8217;s Copenhagen Emissions Pledge &#8212; U.N. Official &#8211; NYTimes.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a move clearly designed to keep up the pressure on the US to take strong action on climate change, UN climate chief Yfo de Boer stated, &#8220;Whatever route is taken, the president of the United States committed to a 17 percent emissions reduction in Copenhagen.  The president of the United States committed to more ambitious [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2010/01/u-s-bound-by-obamas-copenhagen-emissions-pledge-u-n-official-nytimes-com-2/</link>
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		<title>Smart-grid spending to hit $200 billion by 2015 &#124; Green Tech &#8211; CNET News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
The term &#8220;smart grid&#8221; is shorthand for a number of technologies intended to automate and digitize management of electrical power. By computerizing the 20th century electrical system, utilities and others in the power industryhope to manage and control electrical output more efficiently and reliably. Though smart grid sounds like it&#8217;s a single system, it&#8217;s more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2010/01/smart-grid-spending-to-hit-200-billion-by-2015-green-tech-cnet-news/</link>
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		<title>U.N. climate chiefs apologize for glacier error &#8211; CNN.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.N.\&#38;apos;s leading panel on climate change has apologized for misleading data published in a 2007 report that warned Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035.  In a statement released Wednesday, U.N. climate chiefs apologize for glacier error &#8211; CNN.com the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said estimates relating to the rate of recession of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2010/01/u-n-climate-chiefs-apologize-for-glacier-error-cnn-com/</link>
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		<title>Yellowstone BioBlitz Uncovers Species Previously not Known to Exist in the Park</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first ever Yellowstone BioBlitz took place in August and uncovered more than 1200 species in a two-square mile area of northern Yellowstone, including several species not previously known to exist in the park. While Yellowstone&#8217;s wolves, bison, bears, and elk typically receive the most attention-both from scientists and tourists-the focus of the BioBlitz was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2009/12/yellowstone-bioblitz-uncovers-species-previously-not-known-to-exist-in-the-park/</link>
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		<title>Leeds School of Business’ Annual Colorado Business Economic Outlook is Dec 7th</title>
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The 45th Annual Event Sponsored by the Business Research Division in the Leeds School of Business and BBVA Compass     The annual forecast of the state&#8217;s economy includes snapshots from specific counties and regions around the state, as well as updates on international trade, population, labor force and personal income growth, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2009/12/leeds-school-of-business-annual-colorado-business-economic-outlook-is-dec-7th/</link>
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		<title>Q3 VC Funding update from VentureDeal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the third quarter of 2009, a total of 35 energy and environmental companies received $421 million in new venture capital financing, representing an 8% decrease in the number of companies being funded and an 8% decrease in the total amount funded to the four sectors of Alternative Energy, Clean Tech, Energy and Environmental.
Alternative Energy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2009/12/q3-vc-funding-update-from-venturedeal/</link>
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		<title>DOE Grants $338M to Geothermal Projects across 39 States</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will provide up to $338 million in funding for the exploration and development of new geothermal fields and research into advanced geothermal technologies. 
These grants are directed toward identifying and developing new geothermal fields and reducing the upfront risk associated with geothermal development through exploration and drilling projects and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2009/12/doe-grants-338m-to-geothermal-projects-across-39-states/</link>
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		<title>Obama Heads to Copenhagen with a 17 Percent Reduction Offer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[President Obama set to be in Copenhagen on Dec. 9th with an offer to cut US GHG emissions in the range of 17% from 2005 levels by 2020.&#160; 
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		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2009/11/obama-heads-to-copenhagen-with-a-17-percent-reduction-offer/</link>
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		<title>100 Year-old Boulder Canyon Turbines Replaced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The DOE is investing up to $1.18 million for a project in Boulder, Colo. to upgrade the 100-year-old Boulder Canyon Hydroelectric Project by replacing two older turbines with a single unit. The new turbine is expected to operate at a wider range of flows and higher efficiency ranges, resulting in an increase in annual generation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2009/11/100-year-old-boulder-canyon-turbines-replaced/</link>
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		<title>Green Energy Projects Discover &#8220;not in my backyard&#8221; Means Them, Too</title>
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In Massachusetts, a proposed wind farm called Cape Wind was dealt a blow last Friday that will delay what would be the first offshore wind farm in the U.S. The Massachusetts Historical Commission agreed with local Indian tribes who claim that the location for the wind farm should be considered for listing in the National [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2009/11/green-energy-projects-discover-not-in-my-backyard-means-them-too/</link>
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		<title>Keeping the Clunker and Looking to Save Cash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Head over to the EPA’s Fuel Economy website and learn ways to get the last few miles out of every drop.&#160; You’ll learn how to drive more efficiently, like taking the golf clubs out of the trunk when snow’s on the ground and slowing down just a bit.&#160; And ways to not only make the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2009/10/keeping-the-clunker-and-looking-to-save-cash/</link>
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		<title>Ole Miss and SmartSynch Report Electricity Usage with…Twitter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The University of Mississippi is using data from SmartSynch’s smart meters and passing it to dashboards for campus operations personnel to monitor, analyze and act via RSS and social networking tools like Twitter and Facebook.&#160; As a part of the university’s Red, Blue and Green initiative, students and faculty can register with the school’s Green [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2009/09/ole-miss-and-smartsynch-report-electricity-usage-withtwitter/</link>
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		<title>NIST Fasttracks SmartGrid Standards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NIST released a draft report on the SmartGrid interoperability standards yesterday.&#160; The roughly 80 initial standards and 14 priority action plans are available for public review and comment for 30 days.&#160; Following this comment period the first phase of NIST’s 3 phase approach will be completed with the final release of the NIST Framework and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2009/09/nist-fasttracks-smartgrid-standards/</link>
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		<title>Power of Influence Reduces use of Power &#8211; Electric Power, that is</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It appears that people don’t only wish to keep up with their neighbors with bigger homes and wider if flatter TVs.&#160;&#160; This seems to be true with energy efficiency as well.&#160; 
From hotels to neighborhoods, the power of influence work by Dr. Robert Cialdini is being put to the test with positive results.&#160; Looks like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2009/08/power-of-influence-reduces-use-of-power-electric-power-that-is/</link>
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		<title>Energy Efficiency is Job 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[McKinsey and Company’s central conclusion from their U.S. Energy Efficiency report says much about the energy efficiency opportunity in the US:
Energy efficiency offers a vast, low-cost energy resource for the U.S. economy – but only if the nation can craft a comprehensive and innovative approach to unlock it.&#160; Significant and persistent barriers will need to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2009/07/energy-efficiency-is-job-1/</link>
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		<title>BP Statistical Review of World Energy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2008 proved to be a year of extremes for both the economy and energy around the world.&#160; Not surprising since fuel prices are so closely tied to world economic growth and in 2008 one of the longest periods of sustained economic growth can crashing to a halt.&#160; This sent record oil prices of $140 per [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2009/06/bp-statistical-review-of-world-energy/</link>
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		<title>NREL Receives Wind Power and Infrastructure Funding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Department of Energy Secretary Chu announces $93 million from the Recover Act to support the development of additional wind energy in the United States. The money will support R&#38;D and testing for wind turbine drivetrains, support university and industry consortia focusing on critical wind energy challenges, advanced technology development in the private sector and a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2009/05/nrel-receives-wind-power-and-infrastructure-funding/</link>
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		<title>DOE Report on Data Center Efficiency Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Claiming typical savings in the 20-40% range with aggressive strategies able to save over 50%, the DOE has put out a report on how data centers can use the tools from the Save Energy Now program.
Not surprisingly, the key to generating these savings is to reduce the amount of energy used to support and cool [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2009/04/doe-report-on-data-center-efficiency-program/</link>
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		<title>Metcalfe at Green:Net 09 &#8211; Squanderably Abundant Cheap Clean Energy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bob Metcalfe, using the history of the Internet as a guide, provided his list of things to look for and look out for in the changing energy sector.

Metcalfe gave an optimistic view of the environmental challenge suggesting not only are we in a Global Warming Bubble but that cheap, clean energy will be so abundant, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2009/03/metcalfe-at-greennet-09-squanderably-abundant-cheap-clean-energy/</link>
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		<title>European Views on Potential for a Global Carbon Agreement at Copenhagen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[McKinsey’s Matt Hirschland interviews three European leaders about a global climate agreement this year.
McKinsey 
Economists Nicholas Stern and Michael Grubb, along with European Commissioner Janez Poto?nik, agree that the United Nations Climate Change Conference, to be held in Copenhagen in December 2009, marks a critical juncture for addressing climate concerns. And they all agree the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2009/03/european-views-on-potential-for-a-global-carbon-agreement-at-copenhagen/</link>
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		<title>Nicholas Stern on Climate Change Actions and the Recession</title>
		<description><![CDATA[McKinsey&#8217;s Matt Hirschland interviewed economist Nicholas Stern in Brussels this past January. You can read the transcript here or click below to watch the video.

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		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2009/03/nicholas-stern-on-climate-change-actions-and-the-recession/</link>
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		<title>Algae &#8211; Nature&#8217;s Wonder-biofuel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is likely that the energy to power your car came from the Sun hundreds of millions of years ago and was converted by algae into simple sugars that eventually was pumped out of the ground as crude oil. Is it possible to shorten this cycle into a few weeks or even days and power [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2009/02/algae-natures-wonder-biofuel/</link>
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		<title>US Carbon Markets React to Obama&#8217;s Budget</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Trading activity picks up for carbon financial instruments (CFIs) after the release of President Obama&#8217;s budget. Even though the budget does not include revenue from carbon allowances until 2012, future contracts prior to this date moved higher. Some people believe these instruments can be used as early action credits in a federal cap and trade [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2009/02/us-carbon-markets-react-to-obamas-budget/</link>
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		<title>Carbon Cap and Trade Q&amp;A</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So just what is a cap and trade system and how does it work? MSNBC has a Frequently Asked Questions page that answers this question. While President Obama signaled his desires in his budget, congress is required to pass the legislation and the details. Many experts are suggesting legislation is unlikely this, however &#8220;Powerful Democrats [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2009/02/carbon-cap-and-trade-qa/</link>
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		<title>President&#8217;s Budget Includes Carbon Cap and Trade Revenue in 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, the White House stated a climate bill passed in 2010 would be fine as long as it included the critical components President Obama included in his campaign promises. This is consistent with President Obama&#8217;s budget which includes revenue for carbon cap and trade allowances of $658 billion in total for the years [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2009/02/presidents-budget-includes-carbon-cap-and-trade-revenue-in-2012/</link>
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		<title>US #1 in Wind Energy Capacity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2008 was a bumper year for wind energy investment. The US added 8,300 megawatts (MW) of wind energy to lead the world with 25,170 MW. 42% of the country&#8217;s new power-producing capacity came from wind. The 50% increase in wind power generation also created 35,000 jobs bringing the total employee bast to 85,000.
Worldwide over 27 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2009/02/us-1-in-wind-energy-capacity/</link>
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		<title>Wind Forecasters Request Lab Help</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three prominent weather forecasting companies took advantage of their podium positions to request laboratory support to help them provide better information to renewable energy projects, namely wind projects. The monthly Sustainable Energy and Atmospheric Sciences seminar series kicked off the new year January 21st at the National Institute of Standards (NIST) in Boulder, CO. Pascal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2009/01/wind-forecasters-request-lab-help/</link>
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		<title>Barack Obama &#8211; 44th President of the United States of America</title>
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&#8220;America, in the face of our common dangers; in this winter of our hardship let us remember these timeless words. With hope and virtue, let us brace once more the icy currents. An endure what storms may come. Let it be said by our children&#8217;s chirdren, that when we were tested we refused to let [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2009/01/barack-obama-44th-president-of-the-united-states-of-america/</link>
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		<title>Solar Future at The daVinci Institute</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Larry Kazmerski, from the National Research Energy Lab (NREL) in Golden, CO was the keynote speaker at this month&#8217;s Night with a Futurist put on by The DaVinci Institute. Kazmerski entertained the largest crowd to attend a Night with a Futurist event throughout his lecture while hitting on these 5 key points:

Solar is real &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2009/01/solar-future-at-the-davinci-institute/</link>
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		<title>Google Searches and Boiling Tea Kettles&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, how many Google searches produce the equivalent CO2 emissions as boiling a cup of water? &#160;&#160;
A confusing question unless you been following the stream of posts generated by the Sunday Times of London quoting (or misquoting) Harvard University physicist Alex Wissner-Gross&#8216; study on the energy used by view webpages. IN the story, the Times [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2009/01/google-searches-and-boiling-tea-kettles/</link>
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		<title>A brief history of wind power &#124; Wind of change &#124; The Economist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wind Power installations to triple between 2007 and 2012 accroding to a brief history of wind power as reported in The Economist.
Globally, wind power installations are expected to triple from 94GW at the end of 2007 to nearly 290GW in 2012, according to BTM Consult, a Danish market-research firm. They will then account for 2.7% [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2009/01/a-brief-history-of-wind-power-wind-of-change-the-economist/</link>
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		<title>CO2 Eating Cement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[British scientists at Novacem have developed a cement from magnesium silicate which absorbs more carbon dioxide while hardening than is emitted during production.  The high heat cooking required for conventional or Portland cement production emits about .8 tons of CO2 for every ton of cement.  When mixed with water cement absorbs about half [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/12/co2-eating-cement/</link>
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		<title>Obama Adds More Green to Science Team</title>
		<description><![CDATA[President elect Barack Obama added John Holdren, a clean coal and nuclear energy proponent, as his next Assistant to the President for Science and Technology.   The head of the Harvard Kennedy School&#8217;s Science, Technology, Public Policy  Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Holdren will expand Obama&#8217;s clean energy team [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/12/obama-adds-more-green-to-science-team/</link>
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		<title>Cow Patty Power from Idaho</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
 
Idaho State energy czar Paul Kjellander sees BTUs where other see Cow $#!+ and he hopes to get others to see it his way.  As head of Gov. C.L. &#8220;Butch&#8221; Otters Office of Energy Resources, Kjellander is pushing a package of income tax credits, property tax waivers and other incentives in the 2009 Legislature starting Jan. 12 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/12/cow-patty-power-from-idaho/</link>
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		<title>Plug-in Hybrid Retrofit Plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Andy Grove has a plan to test the viability of retrofitting US autos into plug-in hybrids fashioned along the lines of GM&#8217;s Volt design. He suggest testing this on 1 million cars at a cost of about $10 billion mainly due to the continued high cost for batteries ($10,000 per car). He is also pushing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/12/plug-in-hybrid-retrofit-plan/</link>
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		<title>EU to cut CO2 emissions 20% by 2020</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The European Parliament has approved a deal to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the 27-member bloc. The package will obligate EU nations to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 20 percent by 2020 from 1990 levels. The package also seeks a 20 percent energy savings and increasing the use of renewable energy sources up to 20 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/12/eu-to-cut-co2-emissions-20-by-2020/</link>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Green Team</title>
		<description><![CDATA[President-elect Obama has followed up on his campaign climate commitments in selecting his &#8220;Green Team&#8221; for environment, energy and new coordinating positions. His picks confirm the Obama administration intends for the US to make an about-face on energy and environmental issues. His selections are experienced in alternative energy and cap-and-trade systems. In several cases choosing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/12/obamas-green-team/</link>
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		<title>Analysts cut EU Allowance Price Forecast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Citing lower forecasts in 2009 output along with an increase in the number of firms announcing temporary shutdowns, analysts are scaling back their forecasts for carbon emissions and the price for allowances for those emissions. Societe Generale has cut their forecast for EUAs a third to 17 euros a ton. They went on to say [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/12/analysts-cut-eu-allowance-price-forecast/</link>
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		<title>Obama Picks Green Scientist for Energy Secretary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Packing up his campaign talk of tackling global climate change head-on, President-elect Obama has selected Nobel physics laureate Steven Chu to head up the department of energy. 
Chu heads the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, stamping his imprint on the lab with an aggressive focus on developing new alternative energy technology. &#8220;If I were emperor of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/12/obama-picks-green-scientist-for-energy-secretary/</link>
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		<title>Lower Energy Costs vs. Greenhouse Gas Emissions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 2008-2009 economic recession has had a major impact on energy prices and price estimates for 2009. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates petroleum products consumption in 2008 will fall 5.8% from the 2007 average and another 1% in 2009. Electricity consumption in 2008 is expected to be flat with 2007 and to decline in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/12/lower-energy-costs-vs-greenhouse-gas-emissions/</link>
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		<title>Van Jones on Green Economics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Big Think shares the views of Van Jones president of profiting from a Green Economy.

Van is correct that the Green Economy can provide opportunities for a people of all walks of life.  And that we have to move and move quickly.  The need to conserve, use renewables and offset Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) will create many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/12/van-jones-on-green-economics/</link>
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		<title>Obama Represents a New Day in America</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All Americans can be proud that the country we love has taken a giant leap forward with the election of Barak Obama.  And African Americans should truly rejoice with his victory.  Not that victory in the civil rights movement is at hand, but that the ultimate glass ceiling has been broken.  Not everyone will agree [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/11/obama-represents-a-new-day-in-america/</link>
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	The inaugural Cloud Summit held in Mtn. View, CA, was well attended with attendees representing many of the California technology companies and their suppliers of money and advice.
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		<title>The Encyclopedia of Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David Pogue interviews E.O. Wilson, founder / father of the Encyclopedia of Life and learns about mushrooms and ants. Predicting we have identified less than 12% and maybe as little as 1% of the species on the planet there are big hopes for this collaborative experienment.
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		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/10/the-encyclopedia-of-life/</link>
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		<title>Generation-WE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This video is worth a few minutes of your time.


The Generation WE movement is the largest generation in history, they are independant &#8211; politically, socially, and philosophically &#8211; and are spearheading a period of sweeping change in America and around the world. Check it out.
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		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/10/generation-we/</link>
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		<title>Replace the White Picket Fence with a White Roof</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is a white roof in your future? Reflective Roofing may in fact be most cost effective geo-engineering option for fighting Global Climate Change. Roof and pavement surfaces with a higher albedo, or ability to reflect the Sun&#8217;s energy back into space, may prove to be a critical factor in buying us enough time to lower [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/10/replace-the-white-picket-fence-with-a-white-roof/</link>
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		<title>RGGI Holds First US Auction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With allowances exceeding current emission&#8217;s forecast the first auction of allowances in a mandatory US system brought little new information. Keith Johnson at Environmental Capital put it this way:
“But don’t get too excited. The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or ”RGGI,“ is more likely to start with a whimper than a bang. Prices for the carbon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/09/rggi-holds-first-us-auction/</link>
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		<title>Cutting US Greenhouse Gas Emissions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[US GreenHouse Gas (GHG) emissions are estimated to rise to 9.7 gigatons of Carbon Dioxide equivalents (CO2e) up from 7.2 gigatons CO2e in 2005. Coupled with a gradual decrease in cabon sinks&#8217; absorption many experts and legislation currently before the US Congress places the 2030 target at 3.5 to 5.2 gigatons of CO2e.
All of this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/09/cutting-us-greenhouse-gas-emissions/</link>
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		<title>Increasing Carbon Productivity Tenfold</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In The Carbon Productivity Challenge, McKinsey &#38; Company focuses on two objectives — stabilizing atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHGs) and maintaining economic growth — and proposes the world has 50 years to increase the GDP per unit of carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e) tenfold. A task the authors equate to the productivity improvement delivered during the 100 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/09/increasing-carbon-productivity-tenfold/</link>
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		<title>Buy a rug; Learn to influence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is the world smaller? Maybe so or maybe good ideas stick regardless of the time and distance they travel to their location. In any event, you can find the latest business thinking in far away places. If you follow Robert Cialdini, then you will want to read this story about a rug business in Turkey [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/08/buy-a-rug-learn-to-influence/</link>
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		<title>Employers&#8217; Opportunity to Improve Health Care Results</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No doubt health care costs continue to reduce the bottom line of many small businesses. Even after pushing vendors hard and changine plans every few years, costs continue to climb and health outcomes measured by employee absenteeism and chronic ailments are stagnant or falling.
Like it or not, businesses will continue to be in the business [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/07/employers-opportunity-to-improve-health-care-results/</link>
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		<title>Get Tuned In</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The folks at Pragmatic Marketing have put together a great book describing their process for creating products and services that customers want and more importantly will buy.
Tuned In is a quick read and should prove to be a valuable reference guide as you turn to your potential customers to define the products and services someone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/06/get-tuned-in/</link>
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		<title>Blogo &#8211; Macintosh blog writing tool</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So the Apple world has yet to come up with a blogging tool to satisfy the desires of those familiar with Live Writer. I&#8217;m testing blogo, and it may work for some of you. Here is a screen shot from their site. 

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		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/05/blogo-macintosh-blog-writing-tool/</link>
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		<title>A former pain in the neck</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What a relief. After 15 months of avoiding surgery to repair an increasing hierniation in my neck last week, Boulder Neurosurgery Association performed an Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion.

The outpatient procedure provided immediately relief to pain and numbness down my right arm into my thumb and forefinger.

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		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/05/a-former-pain-in-the-neck/</link>
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		<title>Gmail under bot attack?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Websense announced in February that Google’s CAPTCHA busted in recent spammer tactic. This came right on the heels of bots breaking the Live Hotmail CATTCHA system. With my gmail account compromised a few weeks ago, I began looking into the likely ways this was done and and I believe there was a good chance it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/05/gmail-under-bot-attack/</link>
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		<title>My Gmail Got Hacked</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today at 3:22 PM, I received the first phone call and would later discover that the first email also arrived then. Apparently, another form of Nigerian embezzlement was underway with a message from my hacked gmail account being sent to my contacts.

  Subject: &#8220;Very Important, Please Read ASAP.&#8221;
I want you to read carefully and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/05/my-gmail-got-hacked/</link>
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		<title>Gas Tax Holiday Hoax</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The McCain &#8211; Clinton Gas Tax Holiday is a farce and voters are beginning to realize this. Of course, Obama has been correctly outlining the problems all along. There are numerous problems with this approach even if the money would trickle into the hands of the consumers who most need it and therefore spend it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/05/gas-tax-holiday-hoax/</link>
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		<title>Thank you, Robyn.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every now and again, you meet someone and immediately know they are making a real difference for a lot of people. Robyn Johnson is such a person. For much of the last ten years, she has provided many Colorado teens with guidance, education and experiences they would likely have never seen without her hard work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/05/thank-you-robyn/</link>
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		<title>Apple making it easy? I&#8217;m not so sure.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently decided to purchase the January 2008 iPod Touch upgrade. I thinking about getting an iPhone and have decided I’m willing to part with the 20 bucks to test out the email app so there is no need for me to repeat what others have said about this already. Great products overcome bad decisions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/05/apple-making-it-easy-im-not-so-sure/</link>
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		<title>Lijit Network Office Tour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Somewhat Frank TV tours the Boulder, CO offices of Lijit. 
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		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/04/lijit-network-office-tour/</link>
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		<title>Venture Capitalists Deals Increase In First Quarter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times reports that Venture Capitalist invest in 922 deals in the first quarter of 2008, compared to 861 in the same period last year. The total amount invested was down 5% causing the times to lead with the headline Venture Capitalists Invest Less In First Quarter &#8211; New York Times.
&#8220;We do not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/04/venture-capitalists-deals-increase-in-first-quarter/</link>
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		<title>I love these play while you work toys.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now you can generate energy and pump clean water by just being a kid. 
Developed by Daniel Sheridan, now a British student at Coventry University, the Springwise: See-saw power for schools generates electricity while kids play on it. Brilliant!
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		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/04/i-love-these-play-and-do-work-toys/</link>
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		<title>Redeye VC: I Don&#8217;t Know&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Why do people feel pressure to have an answer for every question?&#8221;  Even when they don&#8217;t know Jack, they make it up on the fly.  Ten years ago our training courses included a short video clip of college students at some of the more prestigious universities speaking at length with great confidence about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/04/redeye-vc-i-dont-know/</link>
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		<title>Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) Sets Auction Rules</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) has set the rules for the first allowance auctions to take place on September 10, 2008 and December 17, 2008.  This is the first mandatory CO2 emissions reduction program auction in the United States.  Quarterly auctions will take place after these first two. These companies have won [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/04/regional-greenhouse-gas-initiative-rggi-sets-auction-rules/</link>
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		<title>Colorado issues RFP for managers of carbon fund.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The state of Colorado is looking for managers for its newly formed Colorado Carbon Fund. This fund aims to aggregate Voluntary Emission Reduction (VER) offsets in an effort to help the state cut its GHG emissions by funding proven carbon abatement project in Colorado. This is in support of Colorado’s climate action plan which aims [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/03/colorado-issues-rfp-for-managers-of-carbon-fund/</link>
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		<title>What am I doing here?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the second year in a row, Forbes names Boulder &#8217;smartest city&#8217; in U.S.  While a more accurate name would be the most educated city in the U.S., I can easily support the argument that the place is full of people with impressive intellectual power.  Come visit us and see.
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		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/03/what-am-i-doing-here/</link>
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		<title>Conviction or Discipline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No, it&#8217;s Conviction and Discipline according to Fred Wilson, &#8220;Conviction and discipline are two sides of the same coin.&#8221; I like the view.  Similar to a great strategy with weak execution, conviction without discipline will often lead you into the ditch and will never get you to the mountaintop.
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		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/03/conviction-or-discipline/</link>
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		<title>America&#8217;s Biggest Paydays From Vanity Fair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[VF&#8217;s list of America&#8217;s 50 Richest Paydays is worth a glance.  However, I could not overlook Peter Newcomb editorial comments regarding the largest two &#8220;winfalls&#8221;.  Regarding Bill Gates&#8217; take last year, Newcomb wrote, &#8220;Throw in a few hundred million dollars in dividend income and his impending retirement will be all the more comfortable.&#8221; Newcomb then [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/03/americas-biggest-paydays-from-vanity-fair/</link>
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		<title>Berkshire Hathaway&#8217;s Shareholders Letter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Berkshire Hathaway&#8217;s Shareholder Letter
is a must read and this one is no exception.  Continuing last year&#8217;s scolding of the sub-prime mortgage banking industr, my favorite lines included these:
John Stumpf, CEO of Wells Fargo, aptly dissected the recent behavior of many lenders: “It is interesting that the industry has invented few ways to lose money when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/03/berkshire-hathaways-shareholders-letter/</link>
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		<title>Is Founder Control in Public Companies a Good Thing?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another high profile company going public has decided to maintain control while selling a majority of the economic stakes in the company to the public.   This time it is Al Gore as a founder of  Current Media.
I certainly agree, the company&#8217;s shareholders have a right to decide the control structure they want to have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/03/is-founder-control-in-public-companies-a-good-thing/</link>
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		<title>Steven Spielberg’s Ghost Town</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Steven Spielberg’s Ghost Town suggests the social networking theme will take, or at a minimum test, the boundaries of segmentation.  In this case not market segmentation, but segmentation of social circles.  The main question I raise is &#8220;Do I want a lot of distributed social network tools?&#8221;   Of course, I am [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/03/steven-spielberg%e2%80%99s-ghost-town/</link>
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		<title>Free! Why it works better today.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chris Anderson&#8217;s at Wired discusses where, why and how free products make sense today and will make make even more sense (and cents) in the future.  Starting with the story of Gillette and bringing us to the plummeting cost of computing and networking, Anderson argues that the traditional cross-subsidy model is not required when incremental [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/02/free-why-it-works-better-today/</link>
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		<title>Foggy Sunrise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

Foggy Sunrise, originally uploaded by Dwayne Nesmith.
Running to a breakfast meeting, I was forces to pull to the side of the road and snap a few shots of this mornings brilliant sunrise behind a foggy frosted field.
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		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/02/foggy-sunrise/</link>
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		<title>Dan Rather Praising Plagerism?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s Sunday news programs were chock full of election experts sharing some interesting comments and many that were less so.  My favorite was Dan Rather&#8217;s depiction of Hillary Clinton&#8217;s closing comments at the Tuesday night Austin debate as the best statements of the campaign.   Surprisingly, earlier in the day, Meet the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/02/dan-rather-praises-plagerism/</link>
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		<title>Bonderman addresses Silicon Flatiron crowd at CU</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Speaking of the TXU purchase, Mr. Bonderman said the company was adept at running a profitable company and equally bad at politics from price increases to ecology to labor relations. These shortcomings lead tothe opportunity which focused on addressing these public concerns.Opportunities for private equity include exploiting public investorsfocus on short term focus, their dislike [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/02/bonderman-addresses-silicon-flatiron-crowd-at-cu/</link>
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		<title>Playtime improves health and education for 10 million people</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PlayPumps International has a goal to help 10 million people in 4,000 African villages by 2010 by installing merry-go-rounds in the villages. What&#8217;s the catch?

Each turn pumps clean drinking water into a tank increasing the health of everyone in the village.  The time and effort for water carrying, mostly done by young girls, is greatly reduced, allowing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/02/playtime-improves-health-and-education-for-10-million-people/</link>
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		<title>VC Wear &#8211; Good for a laugh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If your in the mood for a smile (and if not, perhaps you need to check this out even more) then head over to VC Wear to see the t-shirts these guys have cooked up. 
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		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/02/vc-wear-good-for-a-laugh/</link>
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		<title>Tech Cocktail Comes to Boulder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Be a part of the Boulder tech scene and register today for the Tech Cocktail March 6th event.  Colorado Startups has the details.
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		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/02/tech-cocktail-comes-to-boulder/</link>
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		<title>Helping Kids Connect with their Community</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interested in helping kids connect with their community?  Want children to be exposed to giving back at an early age?  Desire for middle school kids to appreciate the environment.  Then please consider a financial contribution to Colorado Youth Program.  This Boulder County organization provides a free after school program, Adventure Club, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/02/helping-kids-connect-with-their-community/</link>
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		<title>Open Coffee Club Boulder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Attended my first Boulder Open Coffee Club this morning at The Cub on Pearl near 16th.  I was dropped in after the planetarium trip with my son&#8217;s first grade class was postponed due to snow and cold (we were scheduled to walk past the CU solar system model to the show).   As I arrived [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/02/open-coffee-club-boulder/</link>
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		<title>Icy Boulder Creek</title>
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Another brutal cold winter has hit the Front Range.  Mother Nature has used her powers to create some frosty items or great beauty.
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		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/01/icy-boulder-creek/</link>
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		<title>4 hour work week&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 4 hour work week is an interesting and educational book, even for those who would not choose to work only half a day each week.  It pushes you to think about different ways to get your job done and to think differently about which activities you keep inside and which you push to others. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2007/12/4-hour-work-week/</link>
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		<title>How to Travel the World–and Get a Personal Assistant–for Free</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tim Ferris asks you to consider these questions as he recommends helping to make the world a better place through access to books in LitLiberation: How to Travel the World–and Get a Personal Assistant–for Free
Envision the 5 books that have most impacted your life. How would your life be different if you’d never read them?
Where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2007/11/%c2%bb-litliberation-how-to-travel-the-world%e2%80%93and-get-a-personal-assistant%e2%80%93for-free/</link>
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		<title>Gazelles Growth Summit &#8211; Day Two</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Day two included another round of interesting speakers.  We began with a horse of a different color as Paul Orfalea, Founder of Kinkos, shared his store, advice and leadership style (close the door and let the kids run the store). Then we moved on to customer satisfaction and the Net Promoter Score as described by Fred Reichheld, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2007/10/gazelles-growth-summit-day-two/</link>
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		<title>Gazelles Growth Summit &#8211; Day One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The annual Gazelles Growth Summit began today in Las Vegas with a host of interesting speakes.  Robert Bloom was first at the podium to discuss his new book Inside Advantage.  It is a good read and I will write a separate post on it soon.  Bloom is full of real life examples [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2007/10/gazelles-growth-summit-day-one/</link>
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		<title>Gazelles Growth Summit 2007 – Oct. 23 &amp; 24</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gazelles Growth Summit highlighted by Geoffrey Moore.&#160;&#160; Sponsored by Forbes Small Business, Verizon and Range Rover, the program run by Gazelles will also showcase influence expert, Dr. Robert Cialdini, and a host of others.
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		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2007/09/gazelles-growth-summit-2007-oct-23-24/</link>
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		<title>MA Clean Energy Industry Census</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Highlights from the 2007 Massachusetts Clean Energy Industry Census    • Jobs: Massachusetts’ clean energy cluster supports    14,400 jobs and is poised to be 10th largest cluster in    the state.    • Growth Rate: Surveyed executives expect 30% job    growth in renewable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2007/08/ma-clean-energy-industry-census/</link>
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		<title>Corporate Adoption Issues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A panel of software providers (SixApart, NewsGator, SocialText and SpikeSource) listed the same issues around security, compliance and control confronting Enterprise 2.0 implementations seen in the past. Even so, a few companies are beginning to move forward with implementations and some have found creative ways to use these tools.
Adoption is driven less from personal passion [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2007/07/corporate-adoption-issues/</link>
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		<title>Social = me first</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stowe Boyd, author of /Message, presenting today at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference identified a model for designing Web 2.0 applications. Build for the individual first, then for groups of like minded people and then focus on the money making activity for a &#8220;market&#8221;.
Stowe claims the Internet is increasingly becoming the Third Space, our primary place [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2007/06/social-me-first/</link>
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		<title>Energy Productivity – Key to meeting accelerating needs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Meeting the fast growing energy needs of the world just may be the most daunting task mankind has faced to date.&#160; No doubt many things must be done to address this issue before fossil fuels are depleted and without destroying economic progress or the environment.&#160; McKinsey and Company has produced a paper on Energy Productivity [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2007/05/energy-productivity-key-to-meeting-accelerating-needs/</link>
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		<title>Build for Value</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Even though the most likely outcome for a successful technology company is via an acquisition, I have never liked the idea of planning for it.Â&#160; Plans and actions then often go away from what will help our customers and help us succeed in the market to what would ABC Inc. like to see in an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2007/04/build-for-value/</link>
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		<title>Eye candy for the soul</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Want to spend a few joyful moments playing around with an eye-popping online toy.Â  Head over to dtoy_vs_byokalÂ  and let your creative juices flow. Maybe I will find a way to place a dtoy widget on this site.
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		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2007/03/eye-candy-for-the-soul/</link>
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		<title>Fun with photos.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ran across a few places to have some fun late one night last week and thought others would find some joy in this as well.
Pikipimp is a good place to start and this may get your attention.
  
Another example is Dave Cohen who was the target of 5280Angel.
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		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2007/03/fun-with-photos/</link>
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		<title>Why is change so hard?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why is it so hard to change, even when the evidence for doing so is overwhelming?  This article from Scientific American, answers the question Why is a minute divided into 60 seconds, an hour into 60 minutes, yet there are only 24 hours in a day?
It is interesting, if not surprising, that these measurements [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2007/03/scientific-american-ask-the-experts-astronomy-why-is-a-minute-divided-into-60-seconds-an-hour-into-60-minutes-yet-there-are-only-24-hours-in-a-day/</link>
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		<title>Building the 21st century education system</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are our schools prepared for the challenges our kids will face this century?Â  This decade?Â  Alvin Toffler suggest our schools were built to prepare the rural American child for the industrial revolution.Â  Get to work on time, enjoy repetitive tasks and essentially fall in line.Â  Agree?Â  Perhaps we have advanced somewhat since the late 1800&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2007/02/building-the-21st-century-education-system/</link>
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		<title>Satellites To Launch On One Rocket</title>
		<description><![CDATA[5 Satellites To Launch On One Rocket
The first camp holds that the substorms are triggered about 50,000 miles above Earth&#8217;s equator, about a sixth of the way to the moon, when electromagnetic turbulence disrupts the flow of intense space currents.
The other theory is that the substorms start about 100,000 miles above the equator with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2007/02/satellites-to-launch-on-one-rocket/</link>
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		<title>Web 2.0 hits saturation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Buzzmeister&#8217;s beware!  The Valleywag buzzmeter shows Web 2.0 hits saturation.   That&#8217;s so 2006.  How should a capital hungry business owner create excitement among the technology captains of capital?
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		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2007/02/web-20-hits-saturation/</link>
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		<title>Not a Pipe Dream</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been playing around with Yahoo Pipes and I like it.Â  Still not sure where to type the &#8220;&#124;&#8221; symbol and I expect we will all get beyond that pretty quickly.
Once you get past the somewhat confusing configuration boxes and understand the tool does a very good job of parsing urls whether feeds, news or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2007/02/not-a-pipe-dream/</link>
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		<title>Bomb fear advertising trend &#8211; I hope not</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t found it, but I&#8217;m sure if it hasn&#8217;t already been done, someone will analyze this advertising campaign in terms of publicity vs. cost.  They may well find that the additional publicity from the disruption of business in Boston was well worth the $500 to $600 thousand the company will pay Boston for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2007/02/bomb-fear-advertising-trend-i-hope-not/</link>
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		<title>Why Live in Colorado</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A question I rarely ask, &#8220;Why do I live in Colorado?&#8221; is regularly answered in ways like it was today.  Driving from Denver to Boulder I interrupted my cell phone caller with &#8220;There is a bald eagle in that tree right there.&#8221;  &#8211; Don&#8217;t worry Mom, I wasn&#8217;t driving. -
It is these regular, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2007/01/why-live-in-colorado/</link>
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		<title>Pinewood Derby Week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is Pinewood Derby Week for Pack 377 and my first derby since the early &#8217;70s.  The wheels are wider and the block of wood does not have a cockpit pre-cut but the rest seems to be the same.  My first car I built with my dad a little more than a year [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2007/01/pinewood-derby-week/</link>
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		<title>Holiday Decorations Dug Out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I took our holiday decorations down today.  Or rather I should say I dug them out of the frozen snow.  Always afraid of being compared to the Griswalds, we pride ourselves in having our Christmas decorations pack away by New Year&#8217;s Day.    Our indoor decorations were packed weeks ago, while [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2007/01/holiday-decorations-dug-out/</link>
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		<title>Web 2.0 &#8211; A Bubble, Hype, for the Lucky Few?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tom Evslin&#8217;s post Web 2.0 â€“ Greater Initial Investments Required suggests that early Web 2.0 companies seized the advantage of low cost technical infrastructure and low cost marketing to gain cost advantages.Â  These companies were able to get big cheaper and faster than the first generation internet companies.Â  While he agrees with Fred Willson that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2007/01/web-20-a-bubble-hype-for-the-lucky-few/</link>
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		<title>Private Firms Lure Chief Executives With Top Pay &#8211; New York Times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why are private boards putting more value on the efforts of top managers than comparable public companies?Â  With no doubt there have been compensation structures for CEOs that were neither aligned with the interest of the shareholders or other stakeholders in the corporation.Â  However, the comparison between the pay at the top of the organization [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2007/01/private-firms-lure-chief-executives-with-top-pay-new-york-times/</link>
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		<title>To go where no man has gone before&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Hawking suggest space colonization is required to prevent the extinction of mankind.Â  It does not take much imagination to believe this premise only a very long time horizon.Â  The question seems to be are we willing to invest in multi-generational projects without an imminent crisis.
Back to Hawking: He stated he was eager to get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2006/12/to-go-where-no-man-has-gone-before/</link>
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		<title>Board Management 101</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A candid interview with Seagateâ€™s CEO reveals his success cookbook.Â  The secret to managing a board of directors: â€œYou never ask board members what they think. You tell them what youâ€™re going to do.â€
Are you sure you have the right board members?
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		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2006/12/board-management-101/</link>
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		<title>Web start-ups snub the big money &#8211; Technology &amp; Media &#8211; International Herald Tribune</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Web start-ups snub the big money, the International Herald Tribune suggests this is a trend that should be expected to continue for a few if not spread to many companies in the space.â€œBy then, Meebo was being courted by venture capitalists, but it decided to take a modest $100,000 from three angel investors, people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2006/11/web-start-ups-snub-the-big-money-technology-media-international-herald-tribune-2/</link>
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		<title>VC Deals: Hercules allows investment in pre-IPO start-ups</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MercuryNews.com &#124; 08/16/2006 &#124; VC Deals: Hercules allows investment in pre-IPO start-ups&#8220;Hercules invests primarily in high-tech companies, usually through &#8220;mezzanine&#8221; debt financings coupled with an equity component such as stock warrants or options, in private companies previously funded by leading venture capital firms. The loans are typically secured by some or all of the assets [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2006/09/vc-deals-hercules-allows-investment-in-pre-ipo-start-ups/</link>
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		<title>Ta-Da! Cheaper Stock Options!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ta-Da! Cheaper Stock Options! Are stock Betas, volatility, really going down as fast as stock option valuations suggest.  This article suggest they are not.
Look, the only reason any investor wished companies to expense options is to reduce the number of options granted. An appropriate goal, perhaps, I question the approach.
There is limited value to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2006/07/ta-da-cheaper-stock-options/</link>
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		<title>10 days that unexpectedly changed America</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The excellent series on the History Channel, 10 Days that Unexpectedly Changed America, continues to be very educational and quite entertaining.  Watching these 10 events, I feel compelled to add and question if perhaps other unexpected events would be in my top 10.  Their events are:

Massacre at Mystic
Shays&#8217; Rebellion: America&#8217;s First Civil War
Gold [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2006/04/10-days-that-unexpectedly-changed-america/</link>
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		<title>Massachusetts’ Bold Healthcare Initiative</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or overstepping the boundaries of government?  Which of these best describes the recent &#8220;Healthcare for All&#8221; bill supported by an overwhelming majority of the Massachusetts Legislature  (154 to 2 in the House and 37 to 0 in the Senate) and Govenor Mitt Romney?  The plan&#8217;s objective is one shared by all concerned [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2006/04/massachusetts-bold-healthcare-initiative/</link>
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		<title>Top Venture Investor Goes Green &#8211; Los Angeles Times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kleiner Perkins sets aside $100 million to invest in &#8220;Green Technologies&#8221;, Top Venture Investor Goes Green &#8211; Los Angeles Times.ï¿½  Does this mean the tides will now turn in favor of investing in this critical area?ï¿½  Oil at almost $69 a barrel today still does not by itself support most of the acclaimed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2006/04/top-venture-investor-goes-green-los-angeles-times/</link>
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		<title>Myogen GlaxoSmithKline agree to joint investment up to $100 million</title>
		<description><![CDATA[GlaxoSmithKline to invest in Myogen
Westminster-based Myogen Inc. said Monday it will receive as much as $100 million from GlaxoSmithKline, as the drugmakers work together on two medicines that treat a lung condition.
Both drugs target pulmonary arterial hypertension, which affects about 200,000 people and, when untreated, can lead to heart failure.
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		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2006/04/myogen-glaxosmithkline-agree-to-joint-investment-up-to-100-million/</link>
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		<title>Coping with the retirement of critical experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the next few years, western countries will face a more intense labor shortage than last felt in the first two years of this century.  Very few companies are prepared for this with hardly any looking to utilize the aging workforce to fill this shortage.  Initially, offshore workers will be able to handle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2006/03/coping-with-the-retirement-of-critical-experience/</link>
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		<title>Quotes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn&#8217;t know what he is doing.
 William Wordsworth 
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		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2006/03/quotes/</link>
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		<title>Security of ports, jobs or politics in port management issue?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lawrence Kudlow calls the concerns over a United Arab Emirates company winning the bid to manage six America ports as nothing other than bigotry. His name for this, Islamaphobia, will not likely be added to our daily lexicon. The actions it describes are simply wrong headed.
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		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2006/02/security-of-ports-jobs-or-politics-in-port-management-issue/</link>
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		<title>Why is ice so slippery?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Does ice melt due to weight and/or friction of a boot, skate or tire creating a thin layer of water?  Experiements are unable to prove this leading some to suggest special qualities of H2O in it&#8217;s &#8220;solid&#8221; form. You can find more in The New York Times article, Explaining Ice: The Answers Are Slippery. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2006/02/why-is-ice-so-slippery/</link>
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		<title>Public or Private Companies &#8211; Which do you want to lead???</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Going private.  Hotshot managers are fleeing public companies for the money, freedom, and glamour of private equity.
&#8220;It isn&#8217;t only CEOs who are making the move to private-equity firms. Fast-rising midcareer folks are lining up, too. &#8216;The interest has really gone through the roof,&#8217; says Anthony Lando, partner and director of Benchmark Search Group, a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2006/02/public-or-private-is-there-a-choice/</link>
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		<title>Tactical is the new strategic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 					Chad Dickerson puts it simply and directly.  Tactical execution is critical in today&#8217;s business environment.
Iâ€™m not saying that strategy isnâ€™t important, just that strategy directly combined with tactical skill is the real killer combo. â€œStrategyâ€ in the absense of tactical engagement is a loserâ€™s game. If youâ€™re a manager who gets down in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2006/02/tactical-is-the-new-strategic/</link>
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		<title>Capital needs for web-startups in question</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Web start-ups snub the big money, the International Herald Tribune suggests web start-ups will continue to use less capital.  This is a trend that should be expected to continue for a few if not spread to many companies in the space.&#8221;By then, Meebo was being courted by venture capitalists, but it decided to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2006/01/web-start-ups-snub-the-big-money-technology-media-international-herald-tribune/</link>
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		<title>Human Evolution: New Thoughts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Economists in The proper study of mankind writes:
SEVEN hundred and forty centuries ago, give or take a few, the skies darkened and the Earth caught a cold. Toba, a volcano in Sumatra, had exploded with the sort of eruptive force that convulses the planet only once every few million years. The skies stayed dark [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2005/12/human-evolution-new-thoughts/</link>
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		<title>Medicaid Needs Agressive Treatment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The McKinsey Quarterly: Intensive care for Medicaid:
&#8220;Every US policy maker knows that Medicaid presents vexing budget challenges, but a new analysis suggests that its costs are becoming truly unsustainable. McKinsey estimates that even after economic growth returns to a steady pace, this government health insurance program, which primarily serves the poor, will consume more than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2005/09/110792785211243727/</link>
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		<title>Can open source revolutionise biotech?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Economist.com &#124; Biotechnology
THE computing industry has been transformed by open-source software, threatening business models while creating lucrative opportunities for some firms. Might the same happen in biotechnology? In a paper published in Nature on February 10th, a group of researchers describe a way to transfer genes into plants that bypasses the now most commonly used [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2005/08/110835744435451880/</link>
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		<title>Are Business Schools the Cause of Business Corruption?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Economist.com &#124;Is the MBA responsible for moral turpitude at the top? :
&#8220;SEVERAL of the corporate scandals that took place in the early years of this decade are currently being replayed in courtrooms from New York to Alabama. The trials of top executives at HealthSouth, Tyco International and WorldCom are reminding the public how unethical was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2005/07/110877048386763110/</link>
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		<title>18 Ways to Take Charge &#8212; Fast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fastcompany suggests there are few career moments as exciting &#8212; and these days, as perilous &#8212; as taking over the top job at a company, business unit, or department. But what exactly do you do once you&#8217;re in charge? This online guide provides 18 tactics &#8211; and case studies &#8212; to help you take the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2005/06/18-ways-to-take-charge-fast/</link>
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		<title>25 Ideas for Leading Change at Home and Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In calling Fast Company readers to lead change at work and at home, RealTime speakers shared their ideas about the state of business, the power of people, and the future of innovation. Here are 25 of the smartest insights that we took away from the event.
1. Audit Your Company Cultures
2. Informed People Don&#8217;t Fear Change
3. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2005/05/25-ideas-for-leading-change-at-home-and-work/</link>
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		<title>Worldwide Health Initiatives by Gates Foundation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Economist.com &#124; Global health
The world&#8217;s richest charity confronts the health of the world&#8217;s poorest people
&#8220;THREE-QUARTERS of a billion dollars is a lot of almost anybody&#8217;s money. Almost anybody, that is, except Bill Gates. Even for him, though, it is more than small change. And that is the size of the donation announced on January 24th [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2005/03/110801199130487963/</link>
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		<title>Howard Dean to Lead DNC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Democratic National Committee
Howard Dean takes the helm of the DNC amid much speculation.  Here is his message along with a few other opions.
&#8220;A message from Chairman Dean
Today your representatives elected new Party leadership. But more importantly they endorsed the idea that our Party must always be led by the people â€” because your participation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2005/02/110835815730108463/</link>
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		<title>North Korea Concerns Increase</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yahoo! News &#8211; North Korea Boasts It Has Nuclear Weapons
As North Korea announces its possession of nuclear weapons, various experts discuss the evidence.
Economist.com &#124; Dealing with North Korea
&#8220;Tests by Americaâ€™s Department of Energy have convinced American officials that North Korea may well have supplied the uranium hexafluoride gasâ€”partly-processed uranium which can be spun in centrifuge [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2005/02/110835621200297181/</link>
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		<title>Right to Speak and a Right to Disagree</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ward Churchill&#8217;s Banality of Evil
The right to free speech doesn&#8217;t mean you&#8217;re right
by Anthony LappÃ©
&#8220;The storm around Churchillâ€™s statements has many on the far left coming to his defense. As a Native American activist, he has a long record of fighting injustice (see my interview with his frequent co-author Jim Vander Wall here), and I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2005/02/110801356128240565/</link>
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		<title>Optimism in the Middle East</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Economist.com &#124; The Middle East peace summit:
Ariel Sharon and Mahmoud Abbas have declared an end to all hostilities after their first summit, in Sharm el-Sheikh. So, after four years of bloodshed, can the uprising be over? There is cause for optimism, though we have been here before.
â€œTHE calm which will prevail in our lands starting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2005/02/110799573723266495/</link>
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		<title>Truth in Political Advertising &#8211; or not!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FactCheck.org Social Security Ads: Risk or Protection?
In this the first round of what will surely be a contentious issue for the congress, FactCheck.org weighs in on the accuracy of current ads.
&#8220;A pro-Bush TV ad gets the central fact right about Social Security: by the time today&#8217;s young workers retire there are projected to be only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2005/02/110792899984463978/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t blame trade for US job losses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The McKinsey Quarterly

The US recession officially ended in late 2001, and ever since, despite recent gains, aggregate job creation has been extremely weakâ€”weaker even than during the &#8220;jobless recovery&#8221; that followed the 1990â€“91 recession (Exhibit 1). Contributing most to the overall number of US jobs lost since 2000 has been the manufacturing sector, which shed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2005/02/110792776050250875/</link>
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		<title>Social Security: Some Facts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NCPA &#8211; Social Security &#8211; Facts About Social Security
Social Security reform has emerged as one of the defining issues of the 2000 election, but a number of myths and half-truths have clouded the dialogue.
Fact #1: The System Is in Trouble. Social Security is structured as a pay-as-you-go system. That means today&#8217;s workers pay the benefits [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2005/02/110792865984358749/</link>
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		<title>Social Security and Your Finances according to AARP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Role of Social Security in Your Financial Planning

&#8220;Fact 1: Social Security is the guaranteed part of your retirement plan.
There have been lots of questions raised about Social Security lately. And granted, it isn&#8217;t perfect. We at AARP know that it was never intended to be the sole solution to financial security in retirement. But [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2005/02/110792855610558244/</link>
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		<title>A Plan for Reforming Social Security</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 6.2 Percent Solution: A Plan for Reforming Social Security:
&#8220;For the past several years there has been a growing consensus about the need to reform Social Security. Now, however, the debate has advanced to the point where it becomes important to move beyond generalities and provide specific proposals for transforming Social Security to a system [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2005/02/110792831828217902/</link>
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		<title>Managing next-generation IT infrastructure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The McKinsey Quarterly

In recent years, companies have worked hard to reduce the cost of the IT infrastructureâ€”the data centers, networks, databases, and software tools that support businesses. These efforts to consolidate, standardize, and streamline assets, technologies, and processes have delivered major savings. Yet even the most effective cost-cutting program eventually hits a wall: the complexity [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2005/02/110792780715299005/</link>
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		<title>Facts Don’t Line up for Bush or MoveOn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FactCheck.org Bush&#8217;s State of the Union: Social Security &#8220;Bankruptcy?&#8221;:
FactCheck.org MoveOn.org Social Security Ad
The folks at FactCheck.org are equally critical of Bush&#8217;s use of agressive projections and language as he pushed his plan to revamp Social Security in his State of the Union address and MoveOn.org&#8217;s use of false claims regarding cuts in benefit payments.
&#8220;In his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2005/02/110792975744819339/</link>
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		<title>Do the Pharma Business Models Add Up?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do Pharmaceutical Companies Have an Effective Business Models?
Has the Pharmaceutical Blockbuster Model Gone Bust?
Bain &#038; Company Press Release 12/8/2003
Rebuilding Big Pharma&#8217;s Business Model
In Vivo 11/1/2003
by James Gilbert, Preston Henske and Ashish Singh
The blockbuster business model that underpinned Big Pharma&#8217;s success is now irreparably broken. The industry needs a new approach.
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		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2004/05/107107841569180294/</link>
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		<title>2004 IT Spending Trends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[IT investment trends for 2004 via a few key articles.
CIOs Still Have A Cautious Outlook For 2004 IT Budgets
Forrester Business Technographics
November 7, 2003
Outlook for 2004 App Budgets: Conservative Growth
Forrester Business Technographics
December 1, 2003
Tech Resurrection Will Be Accompanied by Significant Structural Change, According to IDC Predictions 2004
09 Dec 2003
See full report. Registration is required.
Gartner Sees IT [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2004/02/107101843532865793/</link>
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		<title>Productivity Improvements Come in Many Shapes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[and on the whole they are all a good thing.  The NY Times had an interesting article in the most recent Week in Review, titled The Bright Side of Sending Jobs Overseas.  The article takes a hard look at the current political rhetoric around the transfer of jobs outside the US and throws [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2004/02/productivity-improvements-come-in-many-shapes/</link>
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		<title>NVCA Model Financing Documents</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The National Venture Capital Association has prepared this set of model legal documents:
Term Sheet
Stock Purchase Agreement
Certificate of Incorporation
Investor Rights Agreement
Voting Agreement
Right of First Refusal and Co-Sale Agreement
Management Rights Letter
Model Opinion Letter
Model Indemnification Agreement
According to the site, &#8220;the model documents aim to:
reflect industry norms
be fair, biased toward neither the VC nor the entrepreneur, consistent with industry [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2004/02/nvca-model-financing-documents/</link>
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		<title>David Galbraith’s weblog aggregator wishlist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My aggregator top ten wishlist items:
1. Search
2. Ability to pick a selection of blogs from a limited list of categories, not too many &#8211; prob like Google news.
3. Ability to do scoped search within these categories.
4. &#8216;More like this&#8217; recommendations.
5. &#8216;People who linked to this blog&#8217; button beneath selections.
6. &#8216;People this blog links to&#8217; button [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2004/02/david-galbraiths-weblog-aggregator-wishlist/</link>
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		<title>Outsourcing, Increased IT Spending and New Technology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are a few of my own observations:
â€¢ OUTSOURCING Â·  It looks like a hit-or-miss business but every company wants to do it.  The key for the provider is getting to scale quickly enough to be able to provide services superior to in-house folks at a cost effective price.  Also the expertise [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2004/01/outsourcing-increased-it-spending-and-new-technology/</link>
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		<title>The Value of Offshoring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Offshoring &#8211; Relocating the back office
Dec 11th 2003 From The Economist print edition
The Organizational Implications of Offshore Outsourcing
24 October 2003
Diane Morello 
Acrobat Version
Offshoring: Is it a Win-Win Game?
McKinsey Global Institute
August, 2003
The Irony of Outsourcing
By Kevin Laws on November 18, 2003 09:03 PM supports the argument that economic activity flowing to the most efficient provider creates [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2004/01/107120042341772843/</link>
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		<title>Reforming Healthcare: Cost vs. Price</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This posting by Kevin Brancato suggest that our view of healthcare cost in the US is distorted.  While the data seems to lead to the conclusion that we&#8217;re buying much more healthcare at sky-high prices, economists doubt the validity and applicability of the offical data because it does not appropriately adjust for quality.
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		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2004/01/reforming-healthcare-cost-vs-price/</link>
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		<title>Corporate Social Responsibility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BusinessPundit talks about this movement which according to The Economist is
One of the biggest corporate fads of the 1990sâ€”less overpowering, no doubt, than dotcom mania, but also longer-livedâ€”was the flowering of â€œcorporate social responsibilityâ€ (CSR). The idea that it is not enough for firms to make money for their owners is one that you might [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2004/01/corporate-social-responsibility/</link>
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		<title>10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change Your World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Technology Review unveils its annual selection of hot new technologies about to affect our lives in revolutionary waysâ€”and profiles the innovators behind them.
Universal Translation
Synthetic Biology
Nanowires
Bayesian Machine Learning
T-Rays
Distributed Storage
RNA Interference
Power Grid Control
Microfluidic Optical Fibers
Personal Genomics
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		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2004/01/10-emerging-technologies-that-will-change-your-world/</link>
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		<title>Misunderstanding the Internet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TM Lutas provides an alternative economic analysis of the Internet to those provided by Adam Thierer at Cato, Howard Dean&#8217;s Principles for an Internet Policy, David Weinberger&#8217;s analysis of the Cato article, and Lawrence Lessig&#8217;s commentary on same.
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		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2004/01/misunderstanding-the-internet/</link>
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		<title>Line56: 2003 In Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The top 12 topics of interest to our readers in 2003 as seen by the editors of Portals Magazine:
1. Consolidation
2. Outsourcing
3. Mid-Market Grind
4. Portals
5. Integration Evolves
6. Supply Chain Gains
7. BI/Analytics
8. CRM Crossroads
9. Offshore
10. IT meets Business
11. RFID
12. Business Process Management
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		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2004/01/line56-2003-in-review/</link>
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		<title>Top Internet Trends for 2004</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rob Greenlee, Host WebTalk Radio, predicts:
1.        The decline of the web browser usage on the desktop as a way   to get to web content
2.        The growth of Internet applications â€“ the executable Internet
3.       [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2004/01/top-internet-trends-for-2004/</link>
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		<title>Blogging for Corporate Intelligence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Downes in his predictions for 2004 suggest that a form of &#8220;non-blog blogging&#8221; will begin to emerge.  He describes this as a way to tap into the views and opinions held by the vast majority of people who will not write publicly.
Downes also predicts that 2004 will be the year of personalization.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2004/01/blogging-for-corporate-intelligence/</link>
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		<title>Seeking the Unconventional Accurate Prediction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bill Gurley outlines the future trends in VC investing via the ever present 2 x 2 matrix (Accurate vs. Inaccurate x Conventional vs. Non-conventional).  Of course, we can all agree that inaccurate predictions are worthless.  Gurley suggests the Conventional/Accurate predictions are also worth very little.  The market prices the high expectations into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2004/01/seeking-the-unconventional-accurate-prediction/</link>
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		<title>Open Source Meets Presidential Elections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Clark TechCorps &#8211; Political Action through Open Source Technology 
Clark was relatively quick to allow the digital literate to contribute what they may, after the national newspapers covered what the Dean campaign was doing.  Will it matter?
We&#8217;re glad today to announce Clark TechCorps, a technology community initiative to pioneer the development of open source [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2004/01/107273254825340100/</link>
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		<title>TECH TALK: 2003-04</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Rajesh Jain&#8217;s tech talk states,  &#8220;&#8230; I will offer my picks for the 10 technologies and trends that either showed promise, made the news and/or made a difference in 2003.&#8221;
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		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2003/12/107273181339275040/</link>
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		<title>25 Years of Technology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SPECIAL REPORT
InfoWorld&#8217;s anniversary: 25 years of technology
A look back at technology developments in the last quarter century and predictions for the future
1979 &#8211; 1985: The Dawn of the PC
Personal computers meet the enterprise
1986 &#8211; 1995: The Networked Enterprise
LAN, Ethernet, Lotus Notes, Windows 95, and a connected workforce
1996 &#8211; 1999: The Internet Era
What a lovely bubble [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2003/12/25-years-of-technology/</link>
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		<title>IT Services Requires Local Handholding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At a time when offshore IT companies continue to post excellent results, these firms seem to confirm there is a requirement to have good solid account relationships based near the customer.  The Economist November 20, 2003 &#8220;Bangalore, Texas&#8221;
A study of the value chain suggests this is a very intelligent move by the offshore firms. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2003/12/it-services-requires-local-handholding/</link>
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		<title>Offshore Outsourcing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I look at predictions for 2004, one area where consensus abounds and debate increases is &#8220;Offshore Outsourcing&#8221;, the movement of knowledge worker jobs offshore.  There is abundant agreement that this will continue, even accelerate.
At the same time there is widespread disagreement as to whether this is a good thing for US and European [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2003/12/107176311825841948/</link>
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		<title>Technology Pioneers of 2004</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The World Economic
Forumâ€™s Technology
Pioneers 2004
I saw this on Rajesh Jain&#8217;s Weblog, EMERGIC.org.
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		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2003/12/107159439521946465/</link>
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		<title>Network Learning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Connections: The Impact of Schooling
December 2003 &#8211; Jay Cross 
Cross writes, &#8220;Most learning is informal; a network approach makes it easier, more productive and more memorable to meet, share and collaborate. Emotional intelligence promotes interoperability with others. Expert locators connect you to the person with the right answer. Imagine focusing the hive mind that emerges [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2003/12/107159396649138326/</link>
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		<title>Offshore IT Services Requires Local Handholding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At a time when offshore IT companies continue to post excellent results, these firms seem to confirm there is a requirement to have good solid account relationships based near the customer.  The Economist November 20, 2003 &#8220;Bangalore, Texas&#8221;
A study of the value chain suggests this is a very intelligent move by the offshore firms. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2003/12/107102115050054678/</link>
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		<title>2004 IT Spending Estimates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let us begin analyzing the investment trends for 2004 by reviewing the predictions for IT spending in 2004.  What better way to begin a discussion around the near term performance of technology companies than with near term IT spending?
Here is a summary of common themes from the articles listed here.  It is by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2003/12/107124314173281837/</link>
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