I, Cringely » Blog Archive » Why big companies can’t change – Cringely on technology At the polar opposite position from big industrial companies sit startups, nearly every one of which begins with an effortless expression of why?  Big companies ask What? then How? but almost never Why? according to Sinek, who I think has [...]

California attorney general subpoenas Fannie, Freddie: report – Yahoo! News (Reuters) – The California attorney general’s office has sent subpoenas to Fannie Ma e and Freddie Mac in a wide-reaching probe into the government-backed mortgage giants’ lending and foreclosure practices, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday. The subpoenas are seeking information about how Fannie and [...]

The Economy, Wealth Concentration, And Political Stability I’ve been seeing a lot of things published lately about our economy, about the huge proportion of economic resources that are concentrated in the hands of a small fragment of the population, about the  parallels between the present time period and the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. As someone [...]

In recent weeks, there has been a lot written online about “real name policies” and whether they help moderate online rudeness. Facebook has such a policy, as does Google Plus. It is GPlus’s policy that has brought the issue to the forefront. Here are some of my thoughts, part of a new series on LOOACs [...]