Business of Piracy

Good hard look at the dynamics of that market.

05. May 2009 by Shlok Vaidya
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Game Based Schooling

Quest to Learn. Very cool.

Two suggestions if they actually want to be revolutionary:

  • Talk to Don Vandergriff and get him on board. He’s done great work on game-training for warfighters. The fact that he’s not running ROTC or West Point (which should be exploded) is a testiment to just how broken the system is.
  • Just move to gaming full time. The brick and mortar can be used to attract NYC elite funding, then the proceeds used to revolutionize MMOE (massive multiplayer online education).

05. May 2009 by Shlok Vaidya
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Social Media + Resiliency

Charlie Edwards has a great read on the potential of social media in the face of a threat. I agree, though it is frustrating to  be less than impressed by the status quo.

04. May 2009 by Shlok Vaidya
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Basic Mobile Biodefense Dashboard

Looks decent enough (but also basic).

And here’s a heatmap.

01. May 2009 by Shlok Vaidya
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Robb on CNN Live

Heh. Reminiscent of the MSNBC+Taleb fiasco, but under the circumstances, he communicated some important points.

(Thanks to reader Deven for passing this along.)

30. April 2009 by Shlok Vaidya
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