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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or to sign up for email alerts.Have you ever really considered why the world has so many persistent problems? Is the average person so different from any other person in any other culture or nation? Do we really fail to understand one [...]

Some time ago a friend or associate, I honestly do not remember which, said something like: “Phil, you are one of the most insightful “A” list bloggers out there.” I can remember thinking; “WTF does that mean?” though I vaguely understood that “A” was obviously better than “B” and the person meant it as a [...]

I had another talk with Barney Pell - founder and former CEO of Powerset today. I had written a post earlier this month on Profy about my perception of the recent management changes, and was anxious to talk about Powerset’s progress. Powerset is one of the most promising new search engines which I have covered [...]

South Korea is one of the most “wired” nations on the planet as is commonly known. I ran across an interesting bit of news today dealing with what can be termed “Web addiction”. Evidently the South Korean government has established a network of 140 Internet addiction centers to curb compulsive Internet usage by “afflicted” people. [...]

The death toll in Bangladesh is staggering and will probably exceed 2000 before all searches are over. The low lying country was smashed by super cyclone Sidr on Thursday with winds in excess of 155 mph. Rescue efforts are underway with Military ships and helicopters trying to reach the thousands of survivors of the [...]