Plouffe’s Messaging Platform

More thoughts on this article when I get a chance.

02. February 2009 by Shlok Vaidya
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Review: Altered Carbon, Broken Angels

Thoroughly enjoyed Altered Carbon. Idea package was fantastic: Gritty, near future, smart mix of tech and story, vividly imagined cyberpunk noir. Just a great read (or listen).

Broken Angels dragged its feet. The idea pack was just found lacking and took far too long to end, unsatisfied.

Plowing into Woken Furies now.

31. January 2009 by Shlok Vaidya
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GS Still Has A Seat At the Trough

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner picked a former Goldman Sachs lobbyist as a top aide Tuesday, the same day he announced rules aimed at reducing the role of lobbyists in agency decisions.

Mark Patterson will serve as Geithner’s chief of staff at Treasury, which oversees the government’s $700 billion financial bailout program. Goldman Sachs received $10 billion of that money.

Well, now that that’s settled we can move on to a stimulus bill that won’t actually do anything.

28. January 2009 by Shlok Vaidya
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New Policy Briefing

Policy briefings are routed to decision makers and their staff. This one provides a basic overview of the collapse of alternative energy, the deteriorating electricity grid, and jump starting the microgrid conversation in DC. Would be happy to delve into it in a more meaningful or deeper way, but in a different forum, probably for a different audience.

27. January 2009 by Shlok Vaidya
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Threats in the Age of Obama

I have a chapter in Tanji’s new compilation, Threats in the Age of Obama, It’s a fun read from a smart group of people (listed below) on a variety of different national security related topics.

Dan tdaxp, Christopher Albon, Matt Armstrong, Matthew Burton, Molly Cernicek, Christopher Corpora, Shane Deichman, Adam Elkus, Matt Devost, Bob Gourley, Art Hutchinson, Tom Karako, Carolyn Leddy, Samuel Liles, Adrian Martin, Gunnar Peterson, Cheryl Rofer, Mark Safranski, Steve Schippert, Tim Stevens, and Shlok Vaidya.

27. January 2009 by Shlok Vaidya
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